Cerrig-y-Pryfraid Garn, Caernarvonshire
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1940
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Cerrig-y-Pryfraid Garn, Caernarvonshire is a 1940 watercolor by Richard L. Young, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This sketch shows a quiet countryside scene with a stone house and a thatched roof. Leafless trees stand around it, and a rocky hillside slopes down to a small stream. The colors are mostly soft browns and grays, with a few patches of green on the hillside. The artist used loose, quick brushstrokes to suggest texture—like the rough stones and the grassy ground. It feels like a sketch made on the spot, not a polished studio piece. If you like this style, look up Victoria and Albert Museum for more works like it.
A watercolour by Richard L. Young from 1940 depicts cottages beside a flowing river, with a hill rising in the background. Part of the Recording Britain collection, it was created under a wartime scheme to document places of national interest across Britain, funded by the Pilgrim Trust and overseen by the Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime. The work reflects efforts to preserve scenes of rural and historic character during a period of rapid change and wartime threat.
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Richard Lee Young is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana.
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