Stanley Spencer 1891-1959

Provenance

Exhibitions

London, Royal Academy of Arts, 182nd Summer Exhibition, 29 April – 7 August 1950, cat no.566

London, Institute of Contemporary Art, Ten Decades: A Review of British Taste 1851 – 1951, Arts

Council of Great Britain, 10 August – 27 September 1951, cat no.250

London, Tate Gallery, Stanley Spencer: A Retrospective Exhibition, 3 November – 18

December 1955, cat no.69

Cardiff, Llandaff Cathedral, Stanley Spencer: Religious Paintings, Welsh Arts Council, 15 – 25 June

1965, cat no.22, touring to:

Bangor, Haverfordwest and Swansea, until September 1965

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Stanley Spencer RA, 20 September – 14 December 1980, cat no.237, illus

b/w p198

London, Barbican Art Gallery, Stanley Spencer: The Apotheosis of Love, 24 January – 1 April 1991, cat no.54, illus colour pp80 – 81

London, Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Stanley Spencer, 1992, cat no.17, illus colour

London, Christie's, Sacred Noise, 25 June – 21 July 2018, illus colour unpaginated

Literature

R.H. Wilenski, Stanley Spencer: Resurrection Pictures, Faber & Faber, London, 1951, pp16 – 17,

illus colour pl.7

Britain To-Day, July 1950, pp36 – 37

Maurice Collins, Stanley Spencer: A Biography, Harvill Press, London, 1962, pp190-200

John Rothenstein, Stanley Spencer: The Man, Correspondence and Reminiscences, Paul Elek, London, 1979, pp10, 85, 112, 125, 130, 134-5

Duncan Robinson, Stanley Spencer: Visions from a Berkshire Village, Phaidon Press, Oxford, 1979, pp65-71

Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer RA, Royal Academy of Arts, 1980, pp196-199

Kenneth Pople, Stanley Spencer: A Biography, Collins, London, 1991, pp445, 450, 467

Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Phaidon, London, 1992, cat

no.358c, pp195 & 491, illus colour pp196 – 197