Artist
Leathart
Leathart is a social realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This amateur artist once painted the same quiet street in Stamford, Rutlandshire for forty years straight. He’d set up his watercolour kit in all weathers, capturing the same brick row houses under shifting light. The results look simple—just houses and sky—but the way he layered the paint makes the scene feel alive, like you could step into it. If you stand close to *Street in Stamford, Rutlandshire* (1936), you’ll see how he left tiny flecks of white paper for light, a trick that makes the whole street glow.
Works by Leathart
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.