Artist: Sir Stanley Spencer (1891 - 1959)
Nationality: British
Movement: Modern English School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Stanley Spencer studied at the Slade School of Art in London from 1909 to 1912. He served in the military during World War I and World War II and then returned to his hometown of Cookham where he spent most of his life. Because of his quiet and eccentric nature, Spencer created most of his work without the influence of mainstream movements, but some qualities did appear in his work. A deeply religious man, his paintings often had biblical themes. He became Sir Stanley Spencer right before his death in 1959.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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John Mix Stanley Beggar Boy oil on canvas 1865
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens - Stanley Matthews and his Wife Mary 1904 bronze Cincinnati Art Museum American
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Stanley William Hayter Rue Castagnary Engraving 1928
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Stanley William Hayter Mirror Mixed media intaglio 1942
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Stanley William Hayter Mirror II Mixed media intaglio 1941
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Stanley William Hayter Figure Mixed media intaglio 1946
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Stanley William Hayter L'Escoutay Mixed media color intaglio 1951
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Stanley William Hayter Confluence Color etching 1964
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Stanley William Hayter Poisson Rouge (Goldfish) Color etching 1957
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Stanley William Hayter Spanish War Relief Christmas Card Engraving 1938
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Stanley William Hayter Untitled (Christmas greeting) Color stencil 1956
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Stanley Cock A Fine Cut color lithograph 1903
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Stanley William Hayter Pelagic forms Color etching 1963
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Stanley Goldstein Studio: Warm and Cool oil on paper 1993
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Stanley William Hayter Night Moth Engraving with aquatint and off set colors 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Jeux d'Eau Mixed media color intaglio 1953
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Stanley William Hayter Cascade Color etching 20th century
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Stanley Wood Valley 1929
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Stanley Wood Two Barns 1929
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Stanley William Hayter Angels Wrestling Mixed media color intaglio 1950
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Stanley William Hayter L'Escoutay Color soft ground etching and engraving 20th century
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Stanley Lea A Dove Changing the Earth Into a Rainbow lithograph with embossment 1973
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Stanley William Hayter Unstable Woman Mixed media intaglio with color process 1947
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Stanley William Hayter Jeux d'Eau Mixed media intaglio and color process 1953
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Stanley Wood Rock Crusher 1929
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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Stanley William Hayter Paysages Urbains, series of six drypoints, in portfolio with ties. Drypoint 20th century
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William Stanley Haseltine Mont Saint Michel oil on canvas 1868
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Stanley Anderson Wreckage drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Peter Lely - Portrait of Lady Penelope Spencer late 1660's oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Dutch
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Frank Weston Benson - Portrait of Mary Spencer Fuller 1914 oil on canvas Currier Museum of Art American
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Stanley Anderson Rue St. Romain, Rouen. etching 19th - 20th century
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Arthur Wesley Dow Cover, for the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on protective board cover 1908
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Stanley Anderson The Reading Room etching 19th - 20th century
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "To A. W. D.," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Charles Stanley Reinhart The Lunch Counter Wood Engraving 19th century
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Stanley Anderson Toledo Cathedral drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Anderson "Les Arcades" Dieppe drypoint 19th - 20th century
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William Stanley Haseltine Indian Rock, Narragansett, Rhode Island oil on canvas 1863
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William Stanley Haseltine Ruins of the Roman Theatre at Taormina, Sicily oil on canvas 1889
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "Rain in May," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "Marsh Goldenrod," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "The Old Stone Wall," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the paragraphs discussing "The Pictures," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the paragraphs discussing "The Poems," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Stanley Anderson St. Nicolas church, Prague. drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Anderson Toledo from the Castillo de San Servando drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Anderson Quai Duperie, La Rochelle drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Anderson Piccadilly Circus drypoint and etching 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Wingate Woodward Charles River, Medway Etching-Drypoint 1922
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Charles Stanley Reinhart A Christmas Gift black ink wash and opaque watercolor 1889
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "Ipswich Marshes," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Stanley Thomas Clough Still Life (vase of fruit) Color aquatint 20th century
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Arthur Wesley Dow Untitled, accompanying the poem "The Marsh Island Lily," in the book By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Woodcut (color) on laid paper 1908
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Saved from its Friend - p.828 Harper's Weekly, 20 October 1877 19th century
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Penrhyn Stanley Adamson Stanlaws Collier's Weekly. The War Color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart The Cuban Question - Titlepage Harper's Weekly 29 November 1873 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart A Foreign Demand - Cover Harper's Weekly, 27 September 1873 19th century
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Robert Spencer Courtyard at Dusk oil on canvas circa 1915
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Charles Stanley Reinhart The New Romish Crusade Against Liberty and Law - p.245 Harper's Weekly 29 March 1873 19th century
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley Bill Graham Presents (98) Buffalo Springfield; Collectors, Fillmore Auditorium, 12/21-23/67 lithograph 1967
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Arthur Wesley Dow By Salt Marshes by Everett Stanley Hubbard (Publisher and location unknown, 1908) Book with 9 woodcuts (color) on laid paper; bound in cloth-backed boards with lettering in pochoir and vignette on front 1908
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William H. Dyson Kultur Cartoons (London: Stanley Paul, [1915]) book with reproductions of drawings 1915
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Jeremiah Gurney Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) albumen print 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart The Close of the Winter Campaign - p.348 Harper's Weekly 5 May 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Our Flag Is Still Here! - Titlepage Harper's Weekly 6 October 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Picking Huckleberries - p.681 Harper's Weekly, 1 September 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley Bill Graham Presents (111) Traffic; H. P. Lovecraft, Fillmore Auditorium, 3/14/68; Winterland, 3/15-16/68 lithograph 1968
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Tompkins Square, New York, .from Harper's Weekly page 800,13 Sep. 1873. Wood Engraving 19th century
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Bruce Spencer Lauritzen Bay Feather Color lithograph 1982
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Robert Spencer The Bargemaster's Wife oil on canvas circa 1910
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Charles Stanley Reinhart A Warning to City Visitors - p.685 Harper's Weekly, 1 September 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Life on a Lumber Raft - p.873 from Harper's Weekly 4 Oktober 1873 wood engraving 19th century
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Stanley Mouse Bill Graham Presents (110) Cream; James Cotton Blues Band, Fillmore Auditorium, 3/7/68; Winterland, 3/8-10/68 lithograph 1968
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Stanley Mouse Bill Graham Presents (106) John Mayall and the Blues Breakers; Arlo Guthrie, Fillmore Auditorium, 2/8-10/68 lithograph 1968
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Edward Smith Stanley (1752-1834), Twelfth Earl of Derby, with His First Wife (Lady Elizabeth Hamilton,
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Charles Stanley Reinhart In the Park - Light and Shade - Two Illustrations p.805 Harper's Weekly 13 October 1877 wood engraving 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Scenes in Wall Street during the Panic - p.893 Harper's Weekly 11 October 1873 wood engraving 19th century
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Gerald Spencer Pryse The Little Alien Color lithograph 1907
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Stanley Mouse San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Love Lady," Love; Congress of Wonders; Avalon Ballroom, 3/8-10/68. lithograph 1968
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Charles Stanley Reinhart Halt! Sentinel Hayes:"You can' come in here Gentlemen, with that Flag!" - Titlepage from Harper's Weekly 4 Oktober 1873 19th century
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Charles Stanley Reinhart A Romish Festival -and- A Mohammedan Festival - two illustrations from p.348 Harper's Weekly 26 April 1873 wood engraving 19th century
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Stanley Mouse San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Reach," Spirit; Sir Douglas Quintet Plus 2; Notes From the Underground; Avalon Ballroom, 8/23-25/68 lithograph 1968
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Francis Chesham Lord Stanley in the Act of placing the Crown of Richard III on the Earl of Richmond in Bosworth Field Engraving and etching 18th - 19th century
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Stanley Mouse San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Liberty," Blood, Sweat and Tears; John Handy, Avalon Ballroom, 3/15-17/68 lithograph 1968
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Gerald Spencer Pryse French 7s Lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley The Family Dog and Bill Graham Presents (29) "Girl with Green Hair" Jim Kweskin Jug Band; Big Brother and the Holding Company, Avalon Ballroom, 10/7-8/66 lithograph 1966
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Heavy," Country Joe and the Fish; Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks; Avalon Ballroom, 1/26-28/68 color lithograph 1968
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Logo," Grateful Dead; Oxford Circle; Avalon Ballroom, 11/4-5/66 color lithograph 1966
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster; Family Dog Productions, "Edgar Allan Poe," Daily Flash; Country Joe amd the Fish; Avalon Ballroom, 10/21-22/66 lithograph 1966
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Dance Dance," Quicksilver Messenger Service; Charlatans; Avalon Ballroom, 12/15-17/67 lithograph 1967
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Dian," Vanilla Fudge; Charles Lloyd Quartet; Avalon Ballroom, 9/29-10/1/67 lithograph 1967
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Stanley Mouse and Alton Kelley San Francisco Rock Poster: Family Dog Productions, "Earthquake," Bo Diddley; Big Brother and the Holding Company; Avalon Ballroom, 8/12-13/66 color lithograph 1966
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Stanley Mouse Bill Graham Presents (97) Mothers of Invention; Tim Buckley, Fillmore Auditorium, 12/14/67; Winterland, 12/15-16/67Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art Purchase lithograph 1967
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Gerald Spencer Pryse Dressing Station lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Gerald Spencer Pryse British Artillery lithograph 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (28)
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Frye Art Museum: Beyond Reason: Paintings and Monoprints by Mark Spencer
Spencer’s painting skills allow him to draw from an eclectic mix of pictorial modes, including the strategies of Flemish nature morte, German Romanticism, and realism. What is common to Spencer’s art is his meticulous brushwork, carefully balanced co...
Auckland Art Gallery: Everyday Miracles: The Art of Stanley Spencer
Landscape studies and portraiture became the launching point for grand-scale biblical narratives played out in his home village of Cookham, the local residents taking the place of apostles, saints and angels. The exhibition contains a select...
Tate Britian: Stanley Spencer
In addition there will be two specially made films; the first presenting the murals in the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere, the second a digital recreation of the Church-House project, Spencer's imagined s...
Walker Art Center: Artist in Residence: Spencer Nakasako
Nakasakos residency will incorporate one of the Walkers newest initiatives: the mobile art lab Walker on Wheels (WoW), which will be equipped with digital cameras and an editing suite. Under the filmmakers direction and in collaboration with t...
October Gallery: THE LOST CHILD PROJECT: A multimedia installation by Jamie Vartan
The October Gallery is located at Ludonia House, 24 Old Gloucester Street in London. The space is open Tuesday to Saturday, 12.30 - 5.30pm (Friday 12th May: 12.30 - 2.30pm). There ...
Frye Art Museum: Witness and Legacy: Contemporary Art about the Holocaust
Organized by historian Stephen Feinstein and Minnesota Museum of American Art curator Paul Spencer, Witness ...
Royal College of Art: The 20th Century British Art Fair
It is the only fair to cover British art from 1900 to the present day and for five days, under one roof, art lovers can enjoy and marvel at the talent and diversity of painting, sculpture, photography and ceramics which incorporate 20th Century Briti...
Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa: Striking Poses: New Zealand Portrait Photography
The invention of the snapshot around 1900 gave people the option of taking their own portraits, but this did not replace the desire to visit the professional. The exhibition shows that while twentieth-century styles of portrait photography beco...
University of South Australia, Art Museum: Orbit ignition, lift off, flying ... yet a continuing relationship with a parent body.
Featured in the exhibition is the work of some exemplary School of Art educated artists and designers of our time - Kerry Argent, Annette Bezor, Aleks Danko, Mandy Martin, Leslie Matthews, Trevor Nickolls, Ken Orchard, Josephine Starrs & Leon Cmie...
Wood Street Gallery: Naked: The Naked Body in Contemporary Video, Photography, and Preformance
Naked features the work of Tina Barney, Anton Corbijn, Zhang Huan, Ma Liuming, Jaan Toomik, Spencer Tunick, Bruce Weber and Manabu Yamanaka. Wood Street Galleries will also present a lecture with Eleanor Heartney, Contributing Editor of Art, Art i...
ARTSPACE, Auckland: TIFFANY'S KYOTO A MAJOR JIM SPEERS PROJECT
A few years back Speers explained nothing by describing his works as neither ordinary objects passing themselves off as art, nor works of art passing themselves off as everyday things. Since then he has cemented his position as a key figure i...
Oakland Museum of California: Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity
More than 500 examples of this colorful textile will be on display in the exhibition Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity, from Oct. 13, 2001 through Jan. 13, 2002, at the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibition also...
Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...
Te Papa: More of the National Art Collection Displayed at Te Papa
Past Presents showcases the range of art held in the national collection – everything from old favourites such as the well-known portrait of Mrs Humphrey Devereux by eighteenth-century American artist John Singleton Copley, through to the latest ...
City Gallery Wellington, 360-Michael Hirschfeld Gallery: Outdoor People: The Paintings and Prints of Juliet Peter
Now in her 80s, Juliet Peter has long been a fixture in the Wellington art scene. She and her artist husband Roy Cowan were central figures in the 1950s and 60s, inspiring many artists to do what was then considered nearly impossible – to make the...
Laguna Art Museum: The OsCene: Contemporary Art and Culture in Orange County
In fact, it has been over twenty years since a survey exhibition of contemporary art in Orange County has been organized by a museum (the last major effort being done by Newport Harbor Art Museum in 1979). Tremendous growth and change have occurre...
Art Institute of Chicago: Himalayas: An Aesthetic Adventure
The sculptures, paintings, and other works comprising the show have been drawn from private and public collections across North America, Europe, and Asia, and more than one-half of these exquisite objects have never before been publicly exhibited....
New York Public Library: Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
The BnF's version of the show was met with critical acclaim in Paris this spring. NYPL's Utopia will run in New York from October 14 to January 27, 2001. It is ...
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art: The Nude in Contemporary Art The Nude in Contemporary Art
According to Harry Philbrick, the chief curator, The exhibition gives us an opportunity to see how artists from America, Europe, and Japan - some young, some old - confront one of the greatest challenges in art: depicting the nude. The work in the ...
Georgia O'Keefe Museum: Views of the City: 1910–1949
Museum director George G. King said, This exhibition provides the viewer a wonderful opportunity to learn more about Georgia OKeeffe, her colleagues,...
Ben Uri Gallery - London Jewish Museum of Art: Mark Gertler: A New Perspective
At the Slade Gertler mixed with C R W Nevinson, Paul Nash and Stanley Spencer, won many prizes, and left with a reputation as a draughtsman to equal that of Augustus John. There he also met and fell in love with fellow student Dora Carrington, who...
Austin Museum of Art - Laguna Gloria: Made You Look!
Visual challenges and surprises abound in the work of the artists in this exhibition. New York artist Spencer Finch creates pale, glimmering mosaics that only over time reveal their photographic imag...
Phillips Collection: Surrealism and Modernism from the Collection of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Notably, the Atheneum was the first museum in the world to purchase a painting by Salvador Dalí (1931) and the first American museum to acquire works by surrealist Joan Miró (1934), the Paris-born painter known as Balthus (1938), and American surr...
MASS MoCA: Cai Guo-Qiang: Inopportune
The centerpiece of Inopportune, titled Inopportune: Stage 1, features a dazzling array of colored light pulsing from hundreds of long transparent rods. These rods thrust out from nine identical white cars which tumble in an arc through the gallery...
Real Art Ways: Call for Artists: Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty
The DON'T TRUST ANYONE OVER THIRTY exhibition series seeks to develop our Visual Arts Program by using this new space and the publication of catalogues to give emerging regional artists an exhibition and publication opportunity at critical moments...
Art 33 Basel: Art 33 Basel: The Center of the International Art World
The 'Art Unlimited' hall shows special art projects and now also features a lounge uniting an art bookshop, a video library and the E-Lounge, which provides a place for artists to mingle with the public. Over 50,000 visitors (2001: 55,000 visitors...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
Kudos to Holly E. Hughes for curating a show so startling, so slyly subversive, it worms its way into your skin before you even realize it. It’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Here is body as locus of the commercial and the contemplative; as s...
Foire Internationale d'Art Contemporain (FIAC), Paris Expo: 29th Annual Modern and Contemporary Art Fair Presents 170 Galleries from 23 Countries
This year’s fair includes a rigorous selection of international galleries, focusing on individual and thematic shows, new and previously unseen works, and site-specific installations. The fair will be divided into five sections: Solo Shows; Group ...

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Stanley Spencer Biography
Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959)
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Spencer, Sir Stanley
Tate Britain | Current Exhibitions
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