The Old Scotch Cart (alt. titles: The Farmyard, Garsington, Oxfordshire; The Farm; Farm at Garsington)

This painting had latterly become known as The Farmyard, Garsington, but through its provenance can be identified as The Old Scotch Cart, first exhibited at the Goupil Gallery in 1926 with several other Garsington paintings. Spencer had spent his childhood making models of farm carts and wagons, and was highly knowledgeable about regional variations in construction.

Date: 1925
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER/1925
Tags: Agricultural, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 610
Width (mm): 715
Location: Aberdeen Art Gallery ABDAG003827
Exhibition History: Goupil 1926 (52); British Painting Since Whistler, National Gallery, 1940 (133) as 'The Farm'; 20th century British paintings from the Aberdeen Art Gallery, October 1952-May 1953; Reading 1964 (19); 'The Creative Genius of Stanley Spencer: Celebrated Northern Collections come to Spencer's Cookham', Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, 2015-6 (31).
Provenance: Gifted by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) to the Contemporary Art Society, 1926; presented to Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums, 1940
Literature: Gough 2024 pp. 138-9, illus. p. 137