Harold Gilman’s House at Letchworth

Location

Country: UK
City: London
Place: Home Office, 2 Marsham Street

Spencer Frederick Gore was inspired by Gauguin and Cezanne, having seen their work at the first Post-Impressionist exhibition organised by Roger Fry in 1910 at the Grafton Gallery in London. Gore was born in Epsom, Surrey and studied at the Slade School of Art from 1896-99 where he became friends with Harold Gilman (1876-1919). Like Gilman, Gore was a founder member of two artists’ groups formed in London at the instigation of Sickert: the Fitzroy Group created in 1907 and its successor the Camden Town Group, of which Gore was the first president in 1911. In 1914 he took part in the first London Group exhibition and also caught pneumonia while out painting in a rainstorm in Richmond Park, and died shortly after.

Places

England, Letchworth, Hertfordshire

Subjects

topography, landscape C20th, Camden Town Group, dog, path, garden, house

Materials & Techniques

panel, oil, oil painting

Artist

Spencer Frederick Gore (1878 - 1914)

Title

Harold Gilman’s House at Letchworth

Date

1912

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

height: 40.00 cm, width: 46.00 cm

Acquisition

Purchased from the New Art Centre, October 1962

Inscription

studio stamp bl: S F GORE

Provenance

With the Robert Carlen Gallery; from whom purchased by Leicester Galleries, London; from whom purchased by the Ministry of Works in November 1962

GAC number

5928