A memory of Whit'all

Painted considerably later than most of Spencer's farmyard scenes, it reprises many motifs of his paintings of the 1920s and 1930s: a flock of birds alighting on an undulating roof; accurately-depicted farm machinery; ebullient cows; blank-faced farm workers. Whit'all may be Whittle, home of Spencer's friends Vera and Austin Lane Poole.

Date: c. 1945-8
Tags: Agricultural, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil
Location: Unknown
Exhibition History: RA 1948 (518); Leicester Galleries 1949 (9)
Literature: RA Illustrated 1948 p. 16