Spring Exhibition
One of three paintings of this size that Gear made for The Festival of Britain, in 1951, before choosing to exhibit Autumn Landscape, which provoked national uproar after it won a purchase prize.
Exhibitions
William Gear, Gimpel Fils, London, 1951
Five Contemporary British Painters: Robert Colquhoun, William Gear, Josef Herman, Ben Nicholson, Matthew Smith, British Council touring exhibition of Canada, 1952-53
Literature
Andrew Lambirth, William Gear, Sansom & Company, 2015 (illus. p. 160)