A Cotsworld Farm
Year: 1930 - 1931Size (cm): 14.1 x 18.4
Collection: Tate Gallery
Dear Gil,
I feel obliged to write, really in order to raise my own status; to lift me from the ‘gutter’ of ignorance and shame where —last night—in Annie Slack’s —I was ‘brother of’: I was brother of ‘ the painter of the farm picture Mr Shepherd said the Times and Morning Post are full of it…….Cookham rings with your fame; you o’er stride the place like a Colossus and I peer about to find myself a miserable grave with my coat collar turned up…
[Stanley, letter to Gilbert dated 13 February, 1932]
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