Bourne End Allotments (alt. title Allotments)

This early landscape, with its lowering sky and rows of winter cabbages, shows Spencer’s developing interest in agriculture and the working landscape. Bourne End is across the Thames from Spencer’s home village of Cookham, to which he had recently returned after his war service.

Date: 1919
Inscriptions: lr: G SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 412
Width (mm): 513
Location: Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum FAO99
Exhibition History: NEAC winter 1925 (37); Goupil 1923 (27); Goupil 1929 (29); Whitechapel Art Gallery, Contemporary British Art, 24 October-1 December (266)
Provenance: Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) by 1925; bequeathed by Marsh to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Worcester City Art Gallery & Museum, 1954
Literature: Review of Goupil 1923 exhibition, unidentified publication, illus.; Fleuron 1926 illus. pl. 10