Gilbert Spencer 1892-1979
Farmer, Horse and Hay-cart, 1930 circa
pen and ink
30.5 x 35.6 cm
12 x 14 in
12 x 14 in
signed with initials and inscribed with a dedication and Artist's address
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This image closely relates to the oil painting by the Artist from 1930-1931, 'A Cotswold Farm', now in Tate Collection (N04670; https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-a-cotswold-farm-n04670), about which Spencer's brother, Stanley, wrote: 'Dear Gil,...
This image closely relates to the oil painting by the Artist from 1930-1931, 'A Cotswold Farm', now in Tate Collection (N04670; https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/spencer-a-cotswold-farm-n04670), about which Spencer's brother, Stanley, wrote:
'Dear Gil, I feel obliged to write, really in order to raise my own status; to lift me from the ‘gutter’ of ignorance and shame where —last night—in Annie Slack’s —I was ‘brother of’: I was brother of ‘ the painter of the farm picture Mr Shepherd said the Times and Morning Post are full of it…….Cookham rings with your fame; you o’er stride the place like a Colossus and I peer about to find myself a miserable grave with my coat collar turned up…'
(Stanley, letter to Gilbert dated 13 February, 1932)
'Dear Gil, I feel obliged to write, really in order to raise my own status; to lift me from the ‘gutter’ of ignorance and shame where —last night—in Annie Slack’s —I was ‘brother of’: I was brother of ‘ the painter of the farm picture Mr Shepherd said the Times and Morning Post are full of it…….Cookham rings with your fame; you o’er stride the place like a Colossus and I peer about to find myself a miserable grave with my coat collar turned up…'
(Stanley, letter to Gilbert dated 13 February, 1932)
