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Ricketts Farm Cookham Dene
Purchased 1938
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<p>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.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
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The Life of the Fields
Loan-out
Rickett’s Farm, Cookham Dene
support: 660 × 1168 mm
frame: 842 × 1346 × 83 mm
Purchased 1938
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<span class="text0">This farm was near the Spencers’ home village of      Cookham.  During the late  1930s Stanley Spencer painted many  local      <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscapes</span></a>, and these were his </span><span class="text12">most popular      pictures. He complained privately that these landscapes stopped him doing      his more imaginative <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a></span><span class="text0">, </span><span class="text13">but it is not difficult to see in them a </span><span class="text12">considerable affection for both the place</span><span class="text0"> and the agricultural life. This painting  was bought by the      Tate Gallery in the  year it was finished. </span>
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<p><b>N04942</b> RICKETT'S FARM, COOKHAM DENE 1938</p>
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<p>Not inscribed.
<br/>Canvas, 26×46 (66·5×117).
<br/>Purchased from the artist through Arthur Tooth &amp; Sons (Clarke Fund) 1938.
<br/><i>Repr: Picture Post</i>, 8 April 1939, n.p. (in colour); Rothenstein, 1945, pl.69.
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<br/>Cookham Dene (or Dean) is a small hamlet lying west of Cookham village.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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Catalogue entry
2004-07-20T00:00:00
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agricultural agriculture, gardening & fishing animals: mammals architecture Berkshire Cookham - non-specific England England, South East England, Southern farmland haystack landscape livestock pen objects pig places UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions wooded