Bit of the Avon
Date1893
Artist
Walter Crane
(British painter, illustrator, and designer, 1845–1915)
MediumWatercolor on paper
Dimensions14 × 6 3/4 in. (35.6 × 17.1 cm)
frame: 20 1/4 x 13 in. (51.4 x 33 cm)
frame: 20 1/4 x 13 in. (51.4 x 33 cm)
Credit LineSamuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935
Object number1935-43
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn the first volume of Modern Painters (1843), John Ruskin advised the “artists of England” to “go to nature…rejecting nothing, selecting nothing, and scorning nothing.” Although not an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Crane shared many of their views. This closely observed and delicately rendered view of the Avon River that borders Somerset in England embraces the concept of veracity promoted by Ruskin.
