
Not on display
- Artist
- Sir Stanley Spencer 1891–1959
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 660 × 1168 mm
frame: 842 × 1346 × 83 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Purchased 1938
- Reference
- N04942
Display caption
This farm was near the Spencers’ home village of Cookham. During the late 1930s Stanley Spencer painted many local landscapes, and these were his most popular pictures. He complained privately that these landscapes stopped him doing his more imaginative paintings, but it is not difficult to see in them a considerable affection for both the place and the agricultural life. This painting was bought by the Tate Gallery in the year it was finished.
Gallery label, September 2004
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Catalogue entry
N04942 RICKETT'S FARM, COOKHAM DENE 1938
Not inscribed.
Canvas, 26×46 (66·5×117).
Purchased from the artist through Arthur Tooth & Sons (Clarke Fund) 1938.
Repr: Picture Post, 8 April 1939, n.p. (in colour); Rothenstein, 1945, pl.69.
Cookham Dene (or Dean) is a small hamlet lying west of Cookham village.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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