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Stanley Spencer’s postcards of Vézelay

03/2024 | 1452 | 166

Pages: 224

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Author:

Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)

Subjects

artists:

Spencer, Stanley / Raverat, Gwen / Raverat, Jacques

buildings:

Vézelay Abbey, Vézelay, France

media:

Postcards

subjects:

Romanesque / Carvings

Illustrations

Attributed works:

Postcard of Jacob fighting with the angel, Vézelay Abbey, sent by Gwen and Jacques Raverat to Stanley Spencer. 1911. (Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham).

Article

Stanley Spencer, postcards, small books and old masters

09/2023 | 1446 | 165

Pages: 952–67

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Martineau, Jane (Martineau, Jane; Martineau, Jane; M., J.T.)

Subjects

artists:

Spencer, Stanley / Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Raverat, Gwen / Raverat, Jacques

artists:

Lamb, Henry / Tonks, Henry

dates:

1910-1919 / 1920-1929 / 1930-1939

museums and institutions:

Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain

subjects:

British art / Reproductions / Postcards / Books / Early Italian art / Italian art / Renaissance art / Flemish art / Northern European / Techniques / Art literature / Literature

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Sir Stanley Spencer; Sydney Spencer; Gilbert Spencer; William ‘Pa’ Spencer, by Philip Edward Morrell. 1914. Vintage snapshot print, 6.1 by 10.3 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

10. Postcard of a corbel in Exeter Cathedral sent by Desmond Chute to Stanley Spencer, 21st June 1916. (John Spencer collection; JS 32).

Attributed works:

11. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Masaccio’s St Peter healing with his shadow. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 32).

Attributed works:

12. St George, by Donatello. (Frontispiece of H. Rea: Donatello: Il maestro di chi sanno, London 1900).

Attributed works:

13. Postcard of Gentile Bellini’s Finding of the True Cross sent by Henry Lamb to Stanley Spencer. (John Spencer collection; JS 50).

Attributed works:

14. Postcard of Giotto’s Joachim and the shepherds sent by Jas Wood to Stanley Spencer, 17th October 1927. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 82).

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15. Reverse of Fig.14.

Attributed works:

16. Postcard of Pieter Bruegel’s Autumn sent by Gilbert Spencer to Stanley Spencer, 1934. (John Spencer collection; JS 82).

Attributed works:

2. Stanley Spencer’s postcard album open to showing a Virgin or saint holding a book, Tonnerre stone, c.1390–1400, Musée national du Moyen Age, Thermes de Cluny, Paris (inv. Cl.18931), and the Court of Pan, by Luca Signorelli, formerly in the collection of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 4 and 5).

Attributed works:

3. Letter from Stanley Spencer to the Raverats illustrating the shape of the reliefs on the campanile of Florence Cathedral. 12th April 1913. (Tate Archive, TGA 8116/21).

Attributed works:

4. Roger Fry’s glass slide of Andrea Pisano’s Creation of Eve from the campanile of Florence Cathedral. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, box 13).

Attributed works:

5. Postcard of the Entombment of Christ, by Donatello, sent from Gwen Darwin to Stanley Spencer, 11th March 1914. (John Spencer collection; JS 6).

Attributed works:

6. Reverse of UCL 51.

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7. Three postcards superimposed to illustrate the west wall of the apse of S. Francesco, Arezzo, by Piero della Francesca, sent by Gwen Raverat to Stanley and Gilbert Spencer, 25th March 1914. (UCL Art Museum, University College London; UCL 53, 50 and 51).

Attributed works:

8. Roger Fry’s glass slides of Piero della Francesca’s Death of Adam. (Archive Centre, King’s College, Cambridge; REF 2, boxes 19 and 32).

Attributed works:

9. Reproduction of the Lion of St Mark, by Vittore Carpaccio, from The Masterpieces of Carpaccio and Giorgione published by Gowans & Gray, 1911.

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From Giotto to the Bushmen: Roger Fry at the Slade 1909–13

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 727-733

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Elam, Caroline (Elam, Caroline; E., C.; E., C. M.)

Subjects

art literature:

Fry, Roger (R. F.; R. E. F.) / Brockwell, Maurice W. / Brown, Frederick / MacColl, D. S. / Tonks, Henry / Ruskin, John / Berenson, Bernard / Bell, Clive

artists:

Giotto / Cézanne, Paul / Gogh, Vincent van / Gauguin, Paul / Piero della Francesca / Nash, Paul / Bomberg, David / Spencer, Stanley / Gertler, Mark / Wadsworth, Edward / Nevinson, C. R. W. / Roberts, William, 1895-1980 / Carrington, Dora / Raverat, Gwen / Sickert, Walter / Steer, Philip Wilson / Chassériau, Théodore / Hunt, William Morris / Watts, George Frederic / Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre / John, Augustus Edwin / Gozzoli, Benozzo / Pinturicchio, Bernardino / Ghirlandaio, Domenico / Masaccio / Uccello, Paolo / Andrea del Castagno / Grant, Duncan / Etchells, Frederick / Holbein, Hans the Younger, ca. 1497-1543 / Bruegel, Pieter, the Elder / Lorrain, Claude / Blake, William / Chardin, Jean-Baptiste-Siméon / Goya y Lucientes, Francisco José de / Ingres, Jean-Auguste-Dominique / Currie, John / Bell, Vanessa

artists:

Donatello / Bate, Francis

dates:

1900-1919 / 1900-1909 / 1910-1919

media:

Paintings

museums and institutions:

Slade School of Fine Art, London, Great Britain / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Grafton Galleries, London, Great Britain / Omega Workshops / Academie Julian, Paris, France / New English Art Club (NEAC)

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

Italian painting / Old-master paintings / French painting / Post-Impressionism / Modernism / Study and teaching / Art schools / Art critics / Art historians / Curators / Burlington Magazine / Portraits / Life drawings / Lectures / Surveys / Formal analysis / Primitivism (Cultural anthropology related concept) / Cave paintings / Children's art / Influence

subjects:

British painting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Vision, volumes and recession, by Walter Sickert. c.1923, published 1929. Etching, 20 by 11.1 cm. (Courtauld Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

2. The unknown god: Roger Fry preaching the new faith, by Henry Tonks. Exhibited 1923. Canvas, 41.5 by 56 cm. (Private collection; courtesy Pym’s Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

3. Poster for the first Post-Impressionist exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London. 1910. Lettering by Roger Fry. 76.3 by 50.9 cm. (The Courtauld Gallery, London).

Attributed works:

4. The meeting at the Golden Gate from John Ruskin, Giotto and his Works in Padua, Orpington 1900, p.77. (Warburg Institute, London).

Attributed works:

5. Detail of The meeting at the Golden Gate, by Giotto. c.1305. Fresco. (Arena Chapel, Padua; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

6. Some later primitives and Madame Tisceron, by John Currie. 1912. Tempera on canvas, 46 by 127 cm. (The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent; Bridgeman Images).

Attributed works:

7. John Donne arriving in heaven, by Stanley Spencer. 1911. Canvas, 37 by 40.5 cm. (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge).

Exhibition Review

Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One. Tate Britain, London

09/2018 | 1386 | 160

Pages: 788-790

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Reviewer:

Vaizey, Marina (Vaizey, Marina)

Subjects

artists:

Nevinson, C. R. W. / Picasso, Pablo / Moore, Henry Spencer, 1898-1986 / Beckmann, Max / Braque, Georges / Epstein, Jacob, 1880-1959 / Lehmbruck, Wilhelm / Ernst, Max / Barlach, Ernst / Nash, Paul / Orpen, William / Spencer, Stanley / Mare, André / Grosz, George / Tonks, Henry

artists:

Lenk, Franz / Jouve, Paul / Birkle, Albert / Branson, Clive

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings / Sculpture / Photographs / Videos / Documents / Pastels / Drawings

museums and institutions:

Tate Britain, London, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

World War (1914-1918) / World War (1939-1945) / Politics / War Artists / Collections, Public / Archives / Diaries / Correspondence / Soldiers / Nazism / Fascism / Class / Futurism / Abstract art / Figurative art / Neo-classicism / Military art and science / Destruction / Dada / Surrealism / Ruins / War memorials / British painting / French painting / German painting

Illustrations

Attributed works:

22. The floating one, by Ernst Barlach. 1927, cast 1987. Bronze, 213 by 74 by 68 cm. (SchleswigHolsteinische Landesmuseen Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

23. Grey day, by George Grosz. 1921. Canvas, 115 by 80 cm. (Nationalgalerie, Berlin; exh. Tate Britain, London).

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24. Wire, by Paul Nash. 1918–19. Watercolour, chalk and ink on paper, 48.6 by 63.5 cm. (Imperial War Museums, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Exhibition Review

A century of figurative British painting

05/2018 | 1382 | 160

Pages: 423-425

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Reviewer:

Cahill, James (Cahill, James; Cahill, J.)

Subjects

artists:

Bacon, Francis, 1909-1992 / Freud, Lucian / Kitaj, R. B. / Auerbach, Frank / Bomberg, David / Sickert, Walter / Soutine, Chaim / Giacometti, Alberto / Spencer, Stanley / Coldstream, William Menzies / Uglow, Euan / Andrews, Michael / Brown, Cecily / Paul, Celia / Saville, Jenny / Yiadom-Boakye, Lynette, b. 1977 / Mead, Dorothy

dates:

2010-2019

media:

Paintings

museums and institutions:

Tate Britain, London, Great Britain

places:

Great Britain / London

subjects:

British painting / Portraits / Figure studies / Human figure / Figure paintings / Figurative art / Life drawings / Realism / Existentialism

Illustrations

Attributed works:

26. Black nude, by Francis Newton Souza. 1961. Canvas, 181.5 by 121 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

27. The deer park, by Michael Andrews. 1962. Oil on board, 214 by 244.5 cm. (Tate Britain, London; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Attributed works:

28. Reclining figure, by Dorothy Mead. c.1954. Canvas, 92 by 122 cm. (The Sarah Rose Collection; exh. Tate Britain, London).

Exhibition Review

Stanley Spencer. Wakefield and Cookham

10/2016 | 1363 | 158

Pages: 836-837

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Reviewer:

Spalding, Frances (Spalding, Frances)

Subjects

artists:

Spencer, Stanley

dates:

2010-2019

museums and institutions:

The Hepworth, Wakefield, Great Britain

museums and institutions:

Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, Great Britain

places:

Wakefield / England

places:

Cookham

subjects:

Reviews / Exhibitions

Illustrations

Attributed works:

68. Port Glasgow Cemetery, by Stanley Spencer. 1947 (British Council Collection; exh. Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham)

Attributed works:

69. Bellrope, Cookham, Berkshire, by Stanley Spencer. 1936 (Rochdale Museum and Art Gallery; exh. The Hepworth, Wakefield)

Attributed works:

70. Self-portrait, Adelaide Road, by Stanley Spencer. 1939 (Private collection, courtesy Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert; exh. The Hepworth, Wakefield)

Book Review

Stanley Spencer: Art as a Mirror of Himself, by A. Causey

05/2016 | 1358 | 158

Pages: 372–73

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Reviewer:

Peters Corbett, David (Peters Corbett, David; Corbett, David Peters)

Subjects

artists:

Spencer, Stanley

subjects:

British painting / Biographies

Illustrations

Attributed works:

41. Unveiling Cookham War Memorial, by Stanley Spencer. 1922 (Private collection)

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