Frank Galsworthy

Frank Galsworthy painted the Mosque of Sidi Said bou Othman in Meknes in 1936 using watercolour. The building’s whitewashed walls and carved cedar doors stand against a clear sky, a quiet scene from colonial-era Morocco. Galsworthy chose this angle to show the mosque’s simple geometry and sunlight caught in its lattice screens. The work documents a specific place and moment before modern changes could erase it. Tap the painting to see the brushwork up close and compare it to other North African watercolours from the 1930s.