Sir Stanley Spencer R.A.

Arthur Tooth & Sons
Acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill May 1951 for £30.0.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

London, Arthur Tooth & Sons, Recent Paintings by Stanley Spencer, 1936, cat. no.12;
London, The Arts Council of Great Britain, Drawings by Stanley Spencer, 1954-5, cat. no.20;
Hampstead, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Catalogue of the Greater Portion of a Collection of Modern English Paintings, Water Colours, Drawings and Sculpture Belonging to W. A. Evill, March 1955, cat. no.17 (as Cows in Meadow);
London, The Home of Wilfrid A. Evill, Contemporary Art Society, Pictures, Drawings, Water Colours and Sculpture, April - May 1961, (part III- section 1) cat. no.20 (as Cows in Meadow);
Plymouth, Museum and Art Gallery, Three Masters of Modern British Painting (Ivon Hitchens, Stanley Spencer, Graham Sutherland), June - October 1961, cat. no.20, with Arts Council Tour to Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Temple Newsam House, Leeds, City Art Gallery, Manchester and Art Gallery and Museum, Cheltenham;
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery, The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.200;
London, Royal Academy, Stanley Spencer RA, 20th September - 14th December 1980, cat. no.93, illustrated p.94 (as The Month of May: Cows at Cookham).

The sheet has been laid down. There appear to be one or two minor abrasions to the cow in the centre of the composition. There are some handling and media marks to the edges and the surface is slightly discoloured; otherwise the work appears in good original condition. Held in a simple black painted wood frame with a cream mount under glass. Please telephone the department on 0207 293 6424 if you have any questions about the present work.
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The present work was drawn for A Chatto & Windus Almanac and relates to Cows at Cookham (1936), which is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.