The War in Somerset

© the artist's estate / Bridgeman Images. Image credit: Manchester Art Gallery

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A precisely painted, slightly surreal landscape depicting the Somerset countryside during wartime. The bright green scene is viewed from a wide country road junction at which a soldier on a motorbike has stopped, a railway bridge behind him, and a road stretching away uphill to the left behind the railway embankment. Some form of army encampment is in the left foreground with tunnels covered in netting and a small white signpost reading '73'. There are hills in the background, with a row of trees and a windsock on the horizon, and a clear blue sky with six barrage balloons on the left.

Manchester Art Gallery

Manchester

Title

The War in Somerset

Date

1943

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 25.5 x W 40.6 cm

Accession number

1943.69

Acquisition method

purchased from the artist, 1943

Work type

Painting

Inscription description

artist's inscription : : brc : artist's name, date : Hillier . 43.

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