Emmer Green, Caversham

The composition of this landscape, with the horizontal band of village visible across a flat expanse of open land, is similar to that of Spencer’s earliest known landscape, Fernlea, Cookham (c. 1913-4, Government Art Collection). It is one of a group of local landscapes painted in 1921-2 while Spencer was living in Caversham near Reading. It was singled out for particular parise by Frank Rutter, art critic for The Times, in his review of Spencer's exhibition (7 January 1923) as 'a lovely English scene, whose beauty has been felt keenly and expressed with a rare simplicity and distinction.'

Date: c. 1921-2
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 457
Width (mm): 610
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: Goupil 1923 (20); Goupil 1932 (81)
Provenance: Christie's London 12 July 1973 lot 189