Scrubbing the Floor

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE, RA (Cookham 1891– Cliveden 1959)
National Trust Inventory Number 790177

Category	Paintings
Date	1927
Materials	Oil on canvas
Measurements	1054 x 1854 mm
Place of origin	Hampstead

Collection	Sandham Memorial Chapel, Hampshire
On show at	Sandham Memorial Chapel, Hampshire, London and South East, National Trust

Summary description

Oil painting on canvas, Scrubbing the Floor by Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE, RA (Cookham 1891– Cliveden 1959), 1927. A shell-shocked man in the hospital corridor is scrubbing the floor. One of the first pictures, painted in Hampstead in 1927. A shell-shocked man in the hospital corridor is scrubbing the floor, and has an obsessive way of throwing himself down to do the work. The drab, featureless walls are deeply evocative of this depressing institution where Spencer began his wartime service.

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Provenance

Given with the chapel by John Louis Behrend (1881- 1972) and Mary Sandham Behrend (1884 - 1977), 1947

Makers and roles

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE, RA (Cookham 1891– Cliveden 1959), artist

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