Rain: Wye Valley

Location

Country: USA
City: Washington DC
Place: British Embassy

Roland Vivian Pitchforth was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire and studied there and in Leeds up to 1915. After the First World War, he returned to Leeds, then won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art (RCA, 1921–1925). Until 1939 he taught at Camberwell and Clapham Schools of Art and the RCA. He joined the London Artists' Association and the London Group in the late 1920s. As an Official War Artist in the Second World War, Pitchforth worked for the Ministry of Information and Home Security, drawing RAF activities, boat yards, factories, control rooms and tanks. He witnessed the Burma campaign in the Far East in 1945, then briefly lived in South Africa. On his return, he taught art and became a Royal Academician (1953).

Places

England, River Wye, Wales

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, tree, horse, rain, river, valley, field, bridge (rural), house

Materials & Techniques

paper (as artists material), watercolour (as artists materials), watercolour (as object name)

Artist

Roland Vivian Pitchforth (1895 - 1982)

Title

Rain: Wye Valley

Date

1949

Medium

Watercolour on paper

Acquisition

Presented by the Hon. Mrs Wood, November 1950

Inscription

br: Pitchforth 49

Provenance

Purchased from Agnew 1950 by the Hon. Mrs Wood and presented to the Ministry of Works for the Ambassador's Residence, Washington, where her uncle Lord Bryce was HM Ambassador 1907-13.

GAC number

1199