Dorset Downs
Gilbert Spencer and his brother Stanley spent part of the summer of 1920 in the village of Durweston, Dorset, visiting his friend and fellow artist Henry Lamb who lived in nearby Stourpaine. It was here that he fully developed his skills as a landscape painter, beginning with relatively simple compositions such as this sweeping, open panorama. Gilbert returned over several successive summers throughout the 1920s.
Date: 1920
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 409
Width (mm): 558
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge PD.48-1956
Exhibition History: British paintings, drawings and sculpture by contemporary artists', Grosvenor Galleries, London, June 1922 (61); Goupil 1923 (29); Leicester Galleries 1943 (31)
Provenance: Gift from Florence Image, the artist's sister, 1956
Literature: Fleuron 1926 pl. 11; Gough 2024 p. 192
Date: 1920
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 409
Width (mm): 558
Location: Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge PD.48-1956
Exhibition History: British paintings, drawings and sculpture by contemporary artists', Grosvenor Galleries, London, June 1922 (61); Goupil 1923 (29); Leicester Galleries 1943 (31)
Provenance: Gift from Florence Image, the artist's sister, 1956
Literature: Fleuron 1926 pl. 11; Gough 2024 p. 192