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| Stanley Spencer Self Portrait 1914 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Stanley Spencer Self Portrait 1923 oil on canvas Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Berkshire |
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| Stanley Spencer Self Portrait by Gaslight looking Downwards 1949 oil on canvas Reading Museum, Berkshire |
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| Stanley Spencer Self Portrait 1959 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Stanley Spencer Poppies 1938 oil on canvas Newark Town Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Nottinghamshire |
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| Stanley Spencer Red Magnolia 1938 oil on canvas Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria |
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| Stanley Spencer Peonies ca. 1939 oil on canvas Nottingham City Museum |
"Stanley Spencer was one of the most original figures in 20th-century British art. He lived for most of his life in his native village of Cookham, which played a large part in the imagery of his paintings. His education was fairly elementary, but he grew up in a family in which literature, music, and religion were dominant concerns, and his imaginative life was extremely rich. He said he wanted "to take the inmost of one's wishes, the most varied religious feelings . . . and to make it an ordinary fact of the street." Spencer was a prize-winning student at the Slade School (1908-1912) and served in the army from 1915 to 1918. . . . His career culminated in a knighthood in the year of his death, but his life was not a smooth success story, and in the 1930s he somewhat alienated his public with the expressive distortions and erotic content of his work. . . . In his later years Spencer acquired a reputation as a landscapist as well as a figure painter."
– excerpted from The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
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| Stanley Spencer Greenhouse and Garden 1937 oil on canvas Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull |
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| Stanley Spencer The Roundabout 1923 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Stanley Spencer The Psychiatrist (Mrs Charlotte Murray) 1945 oil on canvas Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands |
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| Stanley Spencer Portrait of Richard Carline 1923 oil on canvas Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, Warwickshire |
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| Stanley Spencer Patricia Preece 1933 oil on canvas Southampton City Art Gallery |
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| Stanley Spencer Scene from the Marriage at Cana in Galilee 1935 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Stanley Spencer The Deposition, and Rolling Away of the Stone 1956 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Stanley Spencer The Centurion's Servant 1914 oil on canvas Tate Britain |