Kidmore Road (alt. title: Winter Landscape)

This landscape, sold in 2003 as 'Winter Landscape', has been identified as Kidmore Road, exhibited at the NEAC in summer 1922 (45) and Goupil Gallery in 1923 (21). According to The Times' review of the painting in the latter (6 January 1923), 'the bright touches of the distant buildings bring the whole of the colour scheme into harmony.' Kidmore Road is in Caversham, near Reading, where Spencer lived in 1921-2.

Date: c. 1921-2
Inscriptions: lr: G Spencer
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 510
Width (mm): 660
Location: Private collection
Exhibition History: NEAC summer 1922 (45); Goupil 1923 (21); possibly 'Modern British Art', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, February 1924 (50) as 'Landscape', described as 'winter landscape with bare trees silhouetted against the sky'
Provenance: Unknown auction 10 September 2003