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Frederick W. Baldwin Walberswick and Southwold from Dunwich 1953 |
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About the artist
(This text appears on the back of the greeting card)
FREDERICK W. BALDWIN (1899-1984)
Frederick Baldwin was a Suffolk artist who lived in Westhall near Halesworth and later moved to Stoven near Beccles. He was educated at the Sir John Leman Grammar School in Beccles and went from there to work as a draughtsman for the Lowestoft boatbuilding firm of J.W. Brooke (now Brooke Marine Yachts). His finely drawn watercolours of the area show some of the same qualities which may be seen in the work of his friend and painting companion, the Ipswich artist Leonard Squirrel (1893-1979). A surviving drawing by Squirrel suggests that the two artists sat side by side in order to draw this Dunwich scene. Completed not long after the great flood of February 1953, Baldwin's watercolour shows a bulldozer at work constructing the shingle bank which is still the main defence against the sea between Dunwich and Walberswick. On the horizon from left to right can be seen Walberswick Church, the water tower at Southwold, St Edmund's Church, and Southwold's lighthouse. Between the church and the lighthouse it is just possible to make out the smoke rising from Adnams brewery.
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