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Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire

Artist Harold Broadfield Warren (American, 1859–1934)
Title Rievaulx Abbey, Yorkshire
Date 1888
Medium Watercolor and graphite on paper
Dimensions Image: 10 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (27.6 × 38.6 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (27.6 × 38.6 cm)
Mount: 12 1/2 × 17 1/8 in. (31.8 × 43.5 cm)
Credit Line Morton and Marie Bradley Memorial Collection, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University
Accession Number 2006.419

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Born in Manchester, England, Harold Broadfield Warren moved to the United States in 1876, and settled in Boston. From the mid-1880s he traveled extensively in Italy, Greece, England, and the Canadian Rockies. Influenced by the English aesthetician John Ruskin, Harold B. Warren produced meticulous watercolors during his travels, carefully recording architecture and landscapes. He taught architectural drawing at Harvard from 1904 to 1930.

Warren's British landscapes reflect the influence of the English picturesque aesthetic with their carefully balanced composition and seamless integration of the buidlings within their natural setings. A reporter in the Boston Post (April 8, 1889) noted that "The English scenes are wholly characteristic, whether showing the long, gently undulating downs of the south country, or the close studies of castle, priory, or Roman wall."


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