The Terrace Garden (alt. title: The Terrace)

This painting depicts the terrace of the Carline family home at 47 Downshire Hill, Hampstead, where Spencer was a regular guest. Richard Carline had painted the same terrace two years earlier, filled with family and friends, including Gilbert's brother Stanley (c. 1924, Ferens Art Gallery). Gilbert exhibited this painting in at the Goupil Gallery in 1926, but presumably continued to work on it afterward, as it is signed and dated 1927.

Date: 1927
Inscriptions: lr: G Spencer 1927
Tags: Urban, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 395
Width (mm): 600
Location: Dudley Museum and Art Gallery 1954/21
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Salon October-November 1926 (112); probably Goupil Spring Exhibition of Modern Art April 1928 (75) as 'A Terrace'; Goupil 1929 (24); Goupil 1932 (55)
Provenance: Bequeathed by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) to the Contemporary Art Society; presented to Dudley Museums and Art Galleries, 1954
Literature: Gough 2024 p. 155