St. Edmund's Church, Tendring, Nr. Harwich
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
St. Edmund's Church, Tendring, Nr. Harwich is a 1940 watercolor by Suddaby, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows a tall church with a pointed spire, surrounded by bare trees and a few small houses. The sky is light and pale, while the church and roofs have warm reds and browns. In the foreground, a low wall with a wrought-iron fence runs along the bottom edge. The artist used loose, sketchy lines and watercolor washes, giving the scene a quick, lively feel. The trees look almost skeletal, with just a hint of green leaves. Check out the Victoria and Albert Museum to see more works like this in person.
A watercolour and pen-and-ink view of St. Edmund’s Church in Tendring, Essex, depicts the medieval building beyond its boundary wall, its flint and stone fabric set against a grey sky, with the warm tones of its Victorian tower, steeple, and red-tiled roofs contrasting sharply. Produced in 1940 as part of the Recording Britain project, the work was commissioned by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime to document places and structures seen as integral to national identity during the Second World War. The scheme, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by Sir Kenneth Clark,…
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A British watercolor artist from the mid-20th century, Suddaby painted quiet, detailed scenes of East Anglia’s streets and churches in the 1940s.
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