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Gerald Gardiner:
Spring in the Cotswolds, 1945
Framed (ref: 489)

Signed with initials and dated;
Oil on paper, 10 x 14 1/4 in. (25.5 x 36.3 cm.)

Tags: Gerald Gardiner oil

Provenance: Abbott and Holder, London; Michael Whitehall

A related painting by Gardiner, entitled Towards Wiltshire, is in the collection of the Swindon Art Gallery. A similar work can be seen hanging over the fireplace in Gardiner’s painting of his wife Evelyn at their family home in Stroud (cat. 32). In 1947 Gardiner produced a series of eleven illustrations for The Cotswolds by Kenneth Green (Garland Press, Bristol), the front cover of which shows a similar composition.