Oil paint on canvas
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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gilbert-spencer-1976" aria-label="More by Gilbert Spencer" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Gilbert Spencer</a>
Blackmore Vale Compton Abbas
Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1944
agriculture, gardening & fishing
Blackmore Vale
cloud
Compton Abbas
Dorset
England
England, South West
England, Southern
farmland
haystack
landscape
objects
places
sunshine
UK cities, towns and villages
UK counties
UK countries and regions
UK natural features
valley
weather
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
Blackmore Vale from Compton Abbas
support: 660 × 1016 mm
Presented by the Trustees of the <a href="/search?gid=999999977" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Chantrey Bequest</a> 1944
<p><b>N05554</b> BLACKMORE VALE FROM COMPTON ABBAS 1942</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘Gilbert Spencer’ b.r. and ‘Gilbert Spencer’ on back of canvas.
<br/>Canvas, 26×40 (66×101·5).
<br/>Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1944.
<br/><i>Exh:</i> Leicester Galleries, May 1943 (28), as ‘Blackmoor Vale from Cerne [<i>sic</i>] Abbas’; R.A., 1944 (128), as ‘Blackmore Vale from Compton Abbas’; Reading, June–July 1964 (50).</p>
<p>This <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>landscape</span></a> was painted in the summer of 1942. Compton Abbas lies to the south of Shaftesbury, Dorset.</p>
<p><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
2004-10-08T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
agriculture, gardening & fishing Blackmore Vale cloud Compton Abbas Dorset England England, Southern England, South West farmland haystack landscape objects places sunshine UK cities, towns and villages UK counties UK countries and regions UK natural features valley weather wooded