As Principal of the Royal College of Art Rothenstein purchased works for the collection by students including Gilbert Spencer, brother of Stanley Spencer. Artists painted the British landscape during the inter-war period which became a symbol of national identity. The Cotswolds in particular, were viewed as the ‘Heart of England’. Rothenstein purchased this painting for the collection in 1938.
Cotswold Meadows, about 1920 oil on canvas by Gilbert Spencer (1892-1979).
Desolate wintry landscape of empty fields flanked by drystone walls and leafless trees. Viewed from within the right-angle at the corner of a drystone wall. Brothers’ Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, and Paul and John Nash produced important landscape paintings during the inter-war period which helped to establish the British landscape as a symbol of national identity at the time. The landscape of the Cotswolds in particular was viewed as the ‘Heart of England’.
There are these inscriptions on the exhibit:
This exhibit is currently on display. Ref CALMG : 1938.29.27
Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery collection, purchased by Sir William Rothenstein 1936
Image © Courtesy of the Estate of Gilbert Spencer / The Bridgeman Art Library
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