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1879 Harvard, Nebraska - 1931 New Hope, Pennsylvania. Known for: Landscape, genre, figure and coastal painting.
The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can... Read full biography
The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can be contacted at BPeterson@MichenerArtMuseum.org:. ROBERT SPENCER: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY. Robert Spencer... Read full biography
The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can be contacted at BPeterson@MichenerArtMuseum.org:. ROBERT SPENCER: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY. Robert Spencer was born in 1879 in Nebraska, the son of a Swedenborgian minister. After studying medicine briefly, he decided to become an artist and moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the National... Read full biography
The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can be contacted at BPeterson@MichenerArtMuseum.org:. ROBERT SPENCER: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY. Robert Spencer was born in 1879 in Nebraska, the son of a Swedenborgian minister. After studying medicine briefly, he decided to become an artist and moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the National Academy of Design. Later he studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri at the New York School of Art. He moved to New Hope, Bucks County in 1906, and studied privately with the well-known Bucks County painter Daniel Garber. It was at the home of... Read full biography
The following is from Brian Peterson, Senior Curator, James A Michener Art Museum, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He seeks information on the artist from persons who have paintings by the artist and can be contacted at BPeterson@MichenerArtMuseum.org:. ROBERT SPENCER: A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY. Robert Spencer was born in 1879 in Nebraska, the son of a Swedenborgian minister. After studying medicine briefly, he decided to become an artist and moved to New York City, where he enrolled at the National Academy of Design. Later he studied with William Merritt Chase and Robert Henri at the New York School of Art. He moved to New Hope, Bucks County in 1906, and studied privately with the well-known Bucks County painter Daniel Garber. It was at the home of painter William L. Lathrop that Spencer met his future wife, Margaret Fulton, herself an accomplished architect. For the next 25 yea... Read full biography