The following is from Wendy Jeffers, Curator of the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition of this artist's work:. Niles Spencer, painter, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Henry Lewin Spencer... Read full biography
The following is from Wendy Jeffers, Curator of the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition of this artist's work:. Niles Spencer, painter, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Henry Lewin Spencer and Margaret Allen. The Spencer family had extensive business interests in Pawtucket including... Read full biography
The following is from Wendy Jeffers, Curator of the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition of this artist's work:. Niles Spencer, painter, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Henry Lewin Spencer and Margaret Allen. The Spencer family had extensive business interests in Pawtucket including banking and manufacturing. Niles Spencer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in nearby Providence in 1915. He studied several summers in Ogunquit, Maine with Charles Woodbury and subsequently,... Read full biography
The following is from Wendy Jeffers, Curator of the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition of this artist's work:. Niles Spencer, painter, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Henry Lewin Spencer and Margaret Allen. The Spencer family had extensive business interests in Pawtucket including banking and manufacturing. Niles Spencer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in nearby Providence in 1915. He studied several summers in Ogunquit, Maine with Charles Woodbury and subsequently, with the avant-garde group surrounding Hamilton Easter Field. In 1916, Spencer moved to New York to continue his studies. The lively intellectual milieu of Greenwich Village was in its heyday, and Spencer was exposed to many of the radical... Read full biography
The following is from Wendy Jeffers, Curator of the 1990 Whitney Museum exhibition of this artist's work:. Niles Spencer, painter, was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the son of Henry Lewin Spencer and Margaret Allen. The Spencer family had extensive business interests in Pawtucket including banking and manufacturing. Niles Spencer graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in nearby Providence in 1915. He studied several summers in Ogunquit, Maine with Charles Woodbury and subsequently, with the avant-garde group surrounding Hamilton Easter Field. In 1916, Spencer moved to New York to continue his studies. The lively intellectual milieu of Greenwich Village was in its heyday, and Spencer was exposed to many of the radical theoreticians and personalities of the time, who encouraged him to begin working in new directions. Deeply influenced by Cézann... Read full biography
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Books & Publications (119)
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The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Two Hundred Years of American Watercolors, Pastels and Drawings (Exhibition catalog)
2001
Peters, Lisa
111 pages (color)
America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties (Exhibition catalog)
2000
Spanierman Gallery
56 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making
1999
Passantino, Erika D (editor)
819 pages (color)
The Art Students League of New York: A History (Students)
1999
Steiner, Raymond J
187 pages
Twentieth Century Still Life Paintings from Phillips Collection
1997
Phillips, Stephen Bennett
120 pages (color)
Addison Gallery of American Art 65 Years A Selective Catalogue (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Addison Gallery
512 pages (color)
American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art
1996
Hopps, Walter (others)
320 pages (color)
American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists
1996
Shipp, Steve
159 pages
City of Ambition Artists and New York, 1900-1960 (Exhibition catalog)
1996
Sussman, Elizabeth
144 pages (color)
American Realism
1994
Lucie-Smith, Edward
240 pages (color)
Precisionism in America 1915-1941 Reordering Reality (Exhibition catalog)
1994
Stavitsky, Gail; Ellen Handy, Miles Orvell et all
160 pages (color)
Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art
1994
Sweetkind, Irene/W H Gerdts
372 pages (color)
Ten Precisionist Artists Annotated Bibliographies
1992
Harnsberger, R S/D Henderson
350 pages
Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950 (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings
622 pages
The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
1,117 pages
Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One)
1990
Gerdts, William H
421 pages (color)
Long Island Landscape Painting Vol ll, The Twentieth Century (Exhibition catalog)
1990
Pisano, Ronald G
168 pages (color)
Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Exhibition catalog)
1989
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
538 pages
Three Hundred Years of American Painting: Montclair Art Museum Collection
1989
Kushner, Marilyn; Alejandro Anreus, et all
200 pages (color)
The American Collections Columbus Museum of Art
1988
Columbus Museum of Art
271 pages (color)
The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
1988
Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy
376 pages (color)
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945 (Exhibition catalog)
1988
Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer
104 pages (color)
Henry Lee McFee & Formalist Realism in American Still Life 1923-1936
1987
Baker, John
148 pages (color)
Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists (5th Edition)
1987
Cummings, Paul
653 pages
Summits II/Etchings of John Sloan Two Concurrent Exhibitions (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Fleischman, Lawrence
82 pages (color)
A Century of Color, 1886-1986: Ogunquit, Maine's Art Colony (Exhibition catalog)
1987
Tragard, Louise; Patricia Hart and W.L. Copithorne
140 pages (color)
Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers
1986
Opitz, Glenn B (editor)
1,081 pages
300 Years of American Art (two volumes)
1986
Zellman, Michael David
1,102 pages (color)
American Masterworks on Paper: Drawings, Watercolors and Prints (Hirschl & Adler Galleries) (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Dreishpoon, Douglas (essay)
63 pages (color)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection
1985
DuPont, Diana, K Holland
402 pages (color)
Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947
1985
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
707 pages
With an Eye to American Art (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Miller, Dorothy C
16 pages
American Art of Great Depression Two Sides of the Coin (Exhibition catalog)
1985
Wooden, Howard E
151 pages
The Museum of Modern Art, New York The History and the Collection
1984
Hunter, Sam
599 pages (color)
The Society of Independent Artists Exhibition Record 1917-1944 (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Marlor, Clark S
600 pages
American Lithographers 1900-1960: The Artists and Their Printers
1983
Adams, Clinton
228 pages (color)
American Still Life 1945-1983 (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Cathcart, Linda L
144 pages (color)
Tradition and Innovation in New Deal Art
1983
Contreras, Belasario R
253 pages
The Lane Collection 20th-Century Paintings in the American Tradition (Exhibition catalog)
1983
Stebbins, Theodore/C Troyen
183 pages (color)
The American Landscape Tradition A Study and Gallery of Paintings
1982
Czestochowski, Joseph S
184 pages (color)
Dictionary of American Artists
1982
Opitz, Glenn
372 pages
American Graphics 1860-1940
1982
Philadelphia Museum of Art
122 pages (color)
Images of America Precisionist Painting and Photography (Exhibition catalog)