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Niles Spencer

Niles Spencer (1893 - 1952) was active/lived in New York, Rhode Island.  Niles Spencer is known for Precisionist and abstract painter-architectural shapes.

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 Cézanne's faceted explorations of landscape and still life, Spencer's paintings began to focus on the geo   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5591 characters.]  Artist bio

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