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Capel-y-ffin

JONES, David
Capel-y-ffin
Image: © Estate of David Jones. All Rights Reserved 2025/Bridgeman Images/Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
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Where do you go to escape from things? David Jones went to Capel y Ffin, a remote artist community in the Black Mountains. His muted image of this peaceful place is both calming and strange, in the geometry of seemingly deserted architectural forms, hidden in the tangle of nature on the hillside.


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Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 557

Creation/Production

JONES, David
1895-1974
Role: Artist
Period: 1926-1927

Measurements

Height (cm): 56.2
Width (cm): 38.9
Height (in): 22
Width (in): 15

Material

Pencil
Watercolour
Gouache
Paper

Location

In store
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  • Fine Art
  • Goat
  • Landscape
  • Path
  • Rural Community
  • Tree
  • Village
  • Works On Paper

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