This view of the barn at Charleston Farmhouse was painted by Duncan Grant in 1959 - the same year as his retrospective exhibition at the Tate. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to Charleston Farmhouse permanently at the outbreak of the Second World War. The legacy of their home lies equally in the programme of interior and decorative works in the house and in their paintings of the house and its agricultural surrounds. Agricultural activity abounded around them at Charleston and Grant and Bell