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	Stanley Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Stanley Spencer, (June 30, 1891 – December 14, 1959), was an English painter.
		Spencer developed a naïve style, influenced in part by the colourful primitivism of Paul Gauguin.
		Stanley Spencer served as a war artist in World War II and was knighted in 1959.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stanley_Spencer (189 words)

	MSN Encarta - Stanley Spencer
		Spencer, Sir Stanley (1891-1959), English painter, whose style was greatly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites, a group of mid-19th century English artists who emulated medieval and early Renaissance paintings and their narrative, religious subject matter (see Renaissance Art and Architecture; Middle Ages).
		Although Spencer's conservative style and solitary personality distanced him from the mainstream of British art, he influenced a number of artists, including his younger brother, Gilbert Spencer, and later painters such as British artist Lucian Freud.
		During the 1930s Spencer was troubled by both personal and professional difficulties, but his career revived with his appointment by the British government as Official War Artist during World War II (1939-1945).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761580991/Spencer_Sir_Stanley.html (244 words)

	Spencer Tour
		Spencer was to comment on that the long tables, whose shapes bear a passing resemblance to punts, occur only in this painting, whereas those in others of the series are square.
		Stanley Spencer wrote of being taken by his father to the kissing gate at twilight to hear the owls "snoring".
		Spencer seemed to be particularly fond of the cows which ambled across the Moor and over the causeway.
	www.cookham.com /about/spencer_tour.htm (2877 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Reviews - Stanley Spencer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spencer's previous retrospectives (at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., in 1997 and at the Royal Academy in London in 1980) amply demonstrated his religious fervor in images of his hometown of Cookham, the compassion he felt for his fellow residents and his quirky romantic and sexual obsessions.
		Spencer was a key member of the "Neo-Primitive" group, allied with David Bomberg, William Roberts and other young artists at the Slade College of Art.
		Spencer's raw human feeling is impressive, and as he grew older the intimate details of his personal life increasingly featured in his work.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/reviews/holmes/holmes4-16-01.asp (763 words)

	M B F A- Mark Borghi Fine Art Inc - European Art - Sir Stanley Spencer (1891 -1959 ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stanley Spencer, the son of William Spencer, a teacher of music, was born in Cookham, Berkshire, in 1891.When Spencer was seventeen he entered the Slade School of Fine Art at University College, London.
		During his lifetime, Spencer was never less than controversial, both adulated and despised, a touchstone for those close to him and a thorn in the side of the conventional English art world of the time.
		Spencer reinterpreted the most hallowed stories of the Christian faith with events and actors drawn from his private experience and situated them anew in his native Cookham (the Thames-side village so central to everything Spencer thought and said that his friends nicknamed him Cookham).
	borghi.org /european/spencer.html (641 words)

	A Poet of Sexual Gloom - Stanley Spencer at the Hirshhorn. By Christopher Benfey
		Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) was the major British painter of the period between the two World Wars and one of the key British painters of the century, but his work is barely known in the United States.
		To an American eye, Spencer's paintings at first glance resemble those of Thomas Hart Benton (born two years before Spencer) in their often monumental and mural-like style, but they are richer, kinkier, and more idiosyncratic than anything Benton did.
		Spencer's artistic talent was recognized early, and he joined an extraordinary generation of students at the Slade School of Art in London.
	www.slate.com /?id=2917 (1182 words)

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		Spencer's portraits are arresting studies of many of the people in his life, from local friends to important cultural figures, and his landscapes, rendered with an exacting, almost obsessive feel for detail and pattern, provide a lyrical view of the English countryside.
		Spencer's unsettling blend of realism and surrealism forms a link to later British figurative painting, while his sensuality and evangelical fervor have often been compared to the work of the early 19th-century visionary, William Blake.
		Stanley Spencer was the eighth of nine surviving children in the family of William and Annie Spencer.
	www.thinker.org /fam/press/press.asp?presskey=43 (846 words)

	Stanley Spencer -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stanley Spencer (1891 - 1959) was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English (An artist who paints) painter.
		He was born and lived in the Thames-side village of Cookham in (A county in southern England) Berkshire, where the Methodist Chapel he attended is now a gallery dedicated to his art.
		Spencer developed a naïve style, influenced in part by the colourful (A genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children) primitivism of (French post-impressionist painter who worked in the South Pacific (1848-1903)) Paul Gauguin.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/stanley_spencer.htm (170 words)

	Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Thomas Spencer - a co-founder of Marks and Spencer plc.
		In the Thomas the Tank Engine stories, Spencer was a visiting locomotive based on the LNER Class A4 tender locomotive.
		Spencer's, a department store chain in British Columbia, Canada (1873 to 1948)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spencer (216 words)

	The rehabilitation of British artist Stanley Spencer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stanley Spencer was born in 1891, the son of a professional musician.
		Spencer viewed the concentration on pure form and abstraction as rather like “contracting a disease” that suppressed his “imaginative capacity to draw”, but nonetheless many of his paintings of the period have a recognisable Post-Impressionist quality to them.
		Spencer’s 1913 Apple Gatherers is very similar to Gaugin’s style of flat, broad figures painted in unnatural colours and lack of perspective.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/sep2001/stan-s20.shtml (2656 words)

	Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly . PROFILE . Stanley Spencer . November 7, 1997 \| PBS
		Spencer was born in Cookham in 1891, and except for two world wars, he lived there until his death in 1959.
		Spencer painted intimate portraits of Patricia Preece, the glamorous freeloader who broke up his first marriage and then abandoned him on their wedding night.
		Stanley Spencer died of cancer a few months after painting this final self-portrait.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/religionandethics/week110/profile.html (447 words)

	Chronology 3
		He was the eighth surviving child of William Spencer, a piano teacher, and his wife Annie.
		Spencer then moved to Burghclere to concentrate on the decoration of the Sandham Memorial chapel.
		Adrian Glew: 'Stanley Spencer and the Renaissance' unpublished MA dissertation, Birkbeck College, London University.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/stanleyspencer/Chronology.html (886 words)

	Stanley Spencer Biography
		To Sir Stanley Spencer Cookham was "a village in heaven".
		Stanley's early life in Cookham was the well spring of his inspiration and the village itself was an important background for many of his paintings.
		Stanley Spencer was born at Fernlea, Cookham High Street on 30 June 1891, the tenth child of a family of eleven, of whom two died in infancy.
	www.cookham.com /about/biography.htm (700 words)

	Sir Stanley Spencer Stands Alone \| Arts and Entertainment \| BBC World Service
		Sir Stanley Spencer was not merely an eccentric English oddity, but a major artist who linked thematically and stylistically to his era and so captured the changing nature of the times and places within which he lived.
		The couple never actually lived together; the marriage was never consummated and after Spencer had signed his home and financial affairs over to his new wife, Preece secured the end of their relationship, when in 1938 she evicted him from the house.
		After the demise of Spencer’s relationship with Preece, the artist made frequent visits to his first wife that were to continue throughout Hilda’s mental breakdown and up until her death from cancer in the winter of 1950.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/highlights/010713_stanley.shtml (844 words)

	Bill's Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		This was the part of Scotland to which Stanley Spencer first came soon after the beginning of the Second World War, as an artist working for the War Artists' Advisory Committee.
		Spencer would scarcely have failed to be struck by the drama of the smoke-belching trains that strained along this elevated pathway.
		Certainly no idyll was being enacted, but Spencer sensed the nobility, and even came to see Port Glasgow as a blessed place, at home (as he always seemed to be) amidst the discomfort, thrilled by the banality and kitsch of his lodgings, wrapped in the warmth of the people of `the Port'.
	www.portglasgow.com /yards/page19.htm (2040 words)

	Stanley Spencer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Spencer himself had served there and in Kosovo in the Royal Army Medical Corps (where he had been placed on account of his diminutive size).
		Such is the dramatic force of Spencer's work that similar technicalities will doubtless be less of a problem, say, in ten years’ time, so that Spencer's prowess can only continue to be enhanced.
		Nor is Spencer's powerful sexuality the decisive motivation for all his work, hence a means for postulating 'modernity'.
	www.studio-international.co.uk /reports/spencers.htm (617 words)

	New Statesman: Stan the man - Stanley Spencer exhibition - Brief Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Many of Spencer's obiter dicta make him sound like an idiot savant, a perception that was boosted by his appearance: diminutive (barely five feet tall), with a pudding-basin haircut, wandering through the streets of Hampstead or his beloved, native Cookham, pushing a decrepit pram with his easel and painting gear in it.
		Spencer's self-denigration, his helplessness in his rejection by Patricia, is, if anything, surpassed in Toasting (1937-38), in which the naked Hilda towers over the naked Stanley, portrayed as a well-hung child -- or, at best, child-man. But not all the sex was a catastrophe.
		Sadly for Spencer, but perhaps better for posterity, he was dissuaded from using that medium and painted almost the whole vast memorial to wartime life and death on canvas glued in place.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4532_130/ai_74886369 (1029 words)

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		Stanley had volunteered as a medical orderly in the spring of 1915, the fifth of his brothers to join up.
		Diane's father, Jovan Healliard Djorjevic was born in 1904 in the village of Turnovo, Bitola, and as a displaced orphan accompanied the Serbian army to Salonika, later being re-settled in England.
		Stanley was handicapped in composing the the picture by the loss in action of his kitbag in which he had stored all his Macedonian drawings, a grievous misfortune about which he not unnaturally complained endlessly.
	members.lycos.co.uk /kenpople/travoys.htm (4655 words)

	Stanley Spencer 's 'Modernist' vision
		From Stanley's writings and letters, it is clear that the new ideas caused him concern, for he found himself having to adjust to them from a devout background of Victorian idealism imbibed through his father's Ruskinian outlook.
		Because Stanley's imagery in his most profound paintings reflects many of the psychological tensions he was undergoing at the time, it is tempting to interpret it directly into meaning, in the way most artists work.
		Certainly Stanley's habit of attaining vision by reversing the actuality of his experience leant towards the intuitive Heraclitan, in the way that his endorsement of the creative impulse (the élan vital) reflected Bergsonian philosophy, and even aspects of theistic existentialism, if labels have to be invoked.
	www.kenpople.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /vision.htm (3316 words)

	Men of the Clyde
		Stanley Spencer's vast paintings of Glasgow shipworkers during the Second World War adorn the walls like paintings of the Passion.
		Spencer was a profoundly religious painter, spending a large part of his life interpreting and reinterpreting the resurrection of Christ.
		Spencer's vision at Port Glasgow was vivid and clear - he wanted to examine, study and understand the process of shipbuilding and to commit to canvas his vision of man and work.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2000-08/art/spencer.htm (750 words)

	Stanley Spencer's Holy Grail
		Whether such an achievement was possible in realistic terms Stanley did not know, any more than did the mediaeval alchemists who hoped to find universal perfection from their search for the philosophers' stone, or the scientists of today who controversially argue that there might be a Theory of Everything or an Intelligent Designer.
		Stanley's God-symbol (in the person of a memory-feeling of Pa) watches from an armchair, and by his spiritual presence and approval sanctifies the mutuality of their feelings.
		Stanley's pilgrimage proceeded picture by picture, each constructed by consistent use of his contrapuntal compositional method described in the preceding webpage, in which a pair of separate or contrasting themes or images are counterpointed across a physical, metaphysical or temporal 'barrier' to evolve a new and unified third theme or concept.
	www.kenpople.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /grail.htm (2994 words)

	Berkshire History: Biographies: Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stanley was the eighth surviving child of William Spencer, a music teacher, and his wife, Anne.
		Spencer was commissioned to paint a scheme of decorative murals there, featuring army life.
		During the Second World War, Stanley became a war artist again and was commissioned to paint scenes of shipbuilding at Lithgow's Yard on the Clyde near Glasgow.
	www.berkshirehistory.com /bios/sspencer.html (744 words)

	Stanley Spencer - Artist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stanley Spencer first visited Southwold in Suffolk in the autumn of 1924 after he had followed his future wife, the painter Hilda Carline, to the nearby village of Wangford.
		But in 1937 Spencer returned alone, having tried in vain to heal the breach in their relationship.
		As an escape from his own emotional distress Spencer set out to capture this carefree summer scene and the result was one of the most appealing of all his paintings.
	www.richardwebster.net /suffolkcards/stanley_spencer.html (133 words)

	1914-18 war - Art of the First World War - 77 - Sir Stanley Spencer
		Sir Stanley Spencer, Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a Dressing Station at Smol, Macedonia, September 1916, 1919, oil on canvas, 183 x 218.5 cm, Imperial War Museum, London.
		Spencer (1891-1959) was a young artist who was mainly known for his gift for drawing when he enlisted with the British medical corps in 1915.
		Spencer turned down all subsequent requests to produce any further painting of his stay in the Balkans.
	www.art-ww1.com /gb/texte/077text.html (216 words)

	Sir Stanley Spencer \| Biography (1891-1959) / Gallery
		"Stanley Spencer is one of the most important British artists of the 20th century."
		Stanley Spencer was born on June 30th at Cookham on Thames, Berkshire, the eighth surviving child of William Spencer, organist and piano teacher.
		Exhibited at J. Leger and Son in March-April, moved to the White Hart Inn, Leonard Stanley, Gloucestershire, with George and Daphne Charlton, July 30.
	www.leninimports.com /stanley_spencer.html (686 words)

	spencer
		Spencer was a war artist during the first world war and at the outbreak of the second he was keen to be used again to depict the homefront in 1940.
		Spencer had a very romantic veiw of the shipyards and was not trying to depict an acurate record of shipbuilding and life in the yard.
		Repeated attempts to have spencers work to Port glasgow for sxhibit have failed due to concers on the arts security.
	www.portglasgow4u.co.uk /misc/spencer.html (322 words)

	Love, Death and Resurrection: the Paintings of Stanley Spencer
		Sir Stanley Spencer (1891-1959), one of the great visionary painters of the 20th century, is virtually unknown to North American audiences.
		Stanley Spencer was born and lived most of his life Cookham on the Thames, a town about 30 miles west of London.
		Stanley and Patricia's ill-fated relationship (she was lesbian and wanted to provide for her lover by marrying Stanley) led to an unconsummated marriage and a heavy divorce settlement.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /feature-2001-09.html (1783 words)

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