This is one of four watercolours by Thomas Barclay Hennell in the collection bequeathed by Weight in 1999. Weight greatly admired Hennell's watercolours. This watercolour depicts potato pickers, as part of his work for the War Advisory Commission. Rothenstein also purchased a watercolour by Hennell for the collection in 1941.
Potato Pickers 1941 watercolour by Thomas Barclay Hennell (1903-1945).
Flat landscape beneath a cloudy sky; a group of land workers, both male and female, fill sacks with potatoes and load them onto the back of a tractor.
Hennell was a watercolourist and rural writer who depicted rural life in Britain during the 1930s and early 1940s. The War Artists Advisory Committee commissioned him to record the harvest in the early 1940s. He also published a number of books on rural life.
Weight greatly admired Hennell's watercolours and bequeathed four of his works from his personal collection to Tullie House in 1999.
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, bequest of Professor Carel Weight 1999
Image © reserved / Estate of Thomas Barclay Hennell
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