Cotswold Meadows

The detailing of the dry stone wall and chalky palette of this painting are similar to those in Spencer's great imaginative painting, A Cotswold Farm (1930-1, Tate), which he was working on around the same time that this landscape was painted.

Date: c. 1930
Inscriptions: lr: GILBERT SPENCER
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 396
Width (mm): 451
Location: Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery 1938.29.27
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Summer Exhibition of Modern Art, 12 June-3 July 1930 (111); Imperial Art Gallery, Imperial Institute, London, March 1931; Goupil 1932 (56)
Provenance: Purchased 1936
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 194