*BARNETT FREEDMAN (1901-1954) Barns and Farm Buildings

Freedman, born in the East End of London, studied at St. Martin's School of Art and then the Royal College.  After leaving the RCA in 1925, he worked as a painter, book illustrator, commercial artist and designer, becoming best known for his lithographs.  At the outbreak of WW2 he was appointed an Official War Artist, worked in France in 1940 at the same time as Edward Bawden and Edward Ardizzone, then in Britain particularly with the Royal Navy, and returned to France after the D-Day landings.  After the war he taught at the Royal College and the Ruskin School of Art, and resumeed his career as a commercial artist and engineer.

This painting is from a series of farm studies and landscapes dating from the late 1920's and early 1930's.