Mill Pond, Durweston (alt. title: Mill Pool, Durweston)

This richly tonal landscape was painted during one of Spencer's seasonal painting trips to the villages of Stourpaine and Durweston in Dorset. His village landscape, Durweston (1927, private collection), was painted on the same visit.

Date: 1927
Inscriptions: lr: Gilbert Spencer/ 1927
Tags: Landscape, Oil Paintings
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height (mm): 612
Width (mm): 513
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford WA1968.26
Exhibition History: Goupil Gallery Spring Exhibition of Modern Art, April 1928 (not in catalogue but mentioned in review in The Times, 12 April 1928); Imperial Institute, London, April 1929; Goupil 1932 (54)
Provenance: Bequeathed by Thomas Balston through the Art Fund, 1968
Literature: The Studio, 103:466 (January 1932), p. 43, illus.; Gough 2024 p. 141