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Capel-y-ffin

JONES, David

© 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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Details

Collection

Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales

Item Number

NMW A 557

Creation/Production

JONES, David
Date: 1926-1927

Acquisition

Purchase, 1991

Measurements

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

Techniques

mixed media on paper
drawings and watercolours
Fine Art - works on paper

Material

pencil
watercolour
gouache
Paper

Location

In store
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  • Animals And Plants
  • Communities And Society
  • Fine Art
  • Goat
  • Jones, David
  • Landscape
  • Landscape Features
  • Path
  • Rural Community
  • Travel And Transport
  • Tree
  • Village
  • Works On Paper

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