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Robert Spencer

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Robert Spencer (1879 - 1931) was active/lived in Pennsylvania, Nebraska.  Robert Spencer is 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 be contacted at [email protected]:

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 years Spencer lived and worked in Bucks County, becoming one of the most prominent members of the Penns   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 5961 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

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Research resources

.  askART lists Robert Spencer in 2 of its research Essays. Robert Spencer has 14 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Robert Spencer available:    Walter Elmer Schofield,  Roy Nuse,  Edward Willis Redfield,  Charles J (Cy) Rosen,  George Sotter,  William Langson Lathrop,  Kenneth Nunamaker,  Daniel Garber,  Henry Bayley Snell,  Rae Bredin,  Mary Elizabeth Price,  John Folinsbee,  Harry Leith-Ross,  Arthur Meltzer,  Fern Isabel Kuns Coppedge,  Antonio Martino,  William Francis Taylor,  Edmund Charles Tarbell,  Louis Ritman,  Nancy Maybin Ferguson,  Theodore Robinson,  Frederick Wagner,  Isabel Parke Branson Cartwright,  Francis Augustus Silva



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Facts about Robert Spencer

   Publications  Book References:  59
Magazine References:  12

The listed publications are derived from what askART has identified from our research for this artist and are intended as an additional tool for information. askART has derived Publications as an aid to members, but it is not necessarily a complete list.
12 Miscellaneous Magazine References for Robert Spencer
Magazine Article Date Author Color
American Art Review Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting August 2006 Fahlman, Betsy Yes
American Artist Nuts & Bolts September 2004 Editors, American Artist Yes
Art Times New Art Books September 2004 Editors, Art Times No
American Art Review The Paintings of Robert Spencer August 2004 Peterson, Brian H Yes
American Art Review The Michener Museum Comes Home to N February 2004 Flynn, Elisabeth Yes
American Art Review The Golden Age of American Impressi December 2003 Gerdts, William H Yes
American Arts Quarterly Book Review-Pennsylvania Impression November 2003 May, Stephen Yes
American Art Review Impressionism Comes to Bucks County October 2002 Peterson, Brian H. Yes
American Art Review Pennsylvania Impressionists & Moder October 2001 Alterman, Jim Yes
American Art Review The Pennsylvania Impressionists February 1998 AR editors Yes
American Art Review A Noble Tradition June 1995 Lowrey, Carol Yes
Architectural Digest Bucks County Impressionists November 1994 Berman, Ann Yes
59 Book References for Robert Spencer
Year Author Title Pages Color
2006 Fahlman, Betsy (Essay) Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting, 1900-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 71 Yes
2005 Alterman, James M. New Hope for American Art A Comprehensive Showing of Important 20th Century Paintings from and Surrounding the New Hope Art Colony 612 Yes
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Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)		 The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005 479 No
2005 Davenport, Ray Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition 2421 No
2004 The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer 176 Yes
2004 Alterman, Jim Blue Chips 128 Yes
2004 Peterson, Brian H The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer 176 Yes
2003 Gerdts, William H (essay) The Golden Age of American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 128 Yes
2003 Richter, Marianne; Wendy Greenhouse (Essays) Union League Club of Chicago Art Collection 308 Yes
2002 Gerdts, William; Brian H. Peterson & Yount Pennsylvania Impressionism 340 Yes
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes 3724 No
1999 Passantino, Erika D (editor) The Eye of Duncan Phillips A Collection in the Making 819 Yes
1997 Folk, Thomas C; James A. Michener (Foreward) The Pennsylvania Impressionists 140 Yes
1996 Shipp, Steve American Art Colonies 1850-1930 A Guide to Original Art Colonies and Their Artists 159 No
1992 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism from the Pfeil Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 282 Yes
1992 Kloss, William (et al) A Nation's Pride Art in the White House 375 Yes
1991 Falk, Peter Hastings Biennial Exhibition Record of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 335 No
1991 Gerdts, William (Essay); George Neubert, (Editor) American Impressionism from the Sheldon Memorial Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 79 Yes
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, National Academy of Design: 1901-1950
(Exhibition catalog)		 622 No
1990 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) The Annual Exhibition Record of the Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 1117 No
1990 Gerdts, William H Art Across America: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic (Volume One) 421 Yes
1990 Gerdts, William H Masterworks of American Impressionism 163 Yes
1990 Taggart and Jorgensen Gallery Pennsylvania Impressionists Painters of the New Hope School
(Exhibition catalog)		 38 Yes
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings Annual Exhibition Record, 1876-1913, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Volume II
(Exhibition catalog)		 612 No
1989 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Annual Exhibition Record, 1914-68, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
(Exhibition catalog)		 538 No
1989 Gerdts, Abigail Booth An American Collection Paintings and Sculpture from the NAD
(Exhibition catalog)		 208 Yes
1988 Falk, Peter Hastings Dictionary of Signatures & Monogram 556 No
1988 Geske, Norman and Karen O. Janovy The American Painting Collection of the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery 376 Yes
1988 Preato, Robert R.; Dr. Sandra L. Langer Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Transformations 1885-1945
(Exhibition catalog)		 104 Yes
1986 Opitz, Glenn B (editor) Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers 1081 No
1986 Zellman, Michael David 300 Years of American Art (two volumes) 1102 Yes
1985 Dawdy, Doris Artists of the American West: Three Volumes A Biographical Dictionary 1184 No
1985 Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor) Who Was Who in American Art: Artists Active Between 1898-1947 707 No
1984 Folk, Thomas The Pennsylvania School of Landscape Painting
(Exhibition catalog)		 95 Yes
1984 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism
(Exhibition catalog)		 336 Yes
1982 Opitz, Glenn Dictionary of American Artists 372 No
1980 Gerdts, William H American Impressionism: The Henry Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 179 Yes
1979 Brooklyn Museum American Paintings/Brooklyn Museum Complete Illustrated Listing of Works 133 Yes
1978 Fink, Lois Marie Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art 62 Yes
1978 Hoffman, Harry H.; Gary Zaruba A Survey of Nebraska Art Works Drawn from the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)		 20 No
1975 Fink, Lois M/Joshua Taylor Academy The Academic Tradition in American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 272 No
1974 Boyle, Richard American Impressionism 238 Yes
1972 Hoopes, Donelson F The American Impressionists 160 Yes
1969 Hormats, Bess Duncan Phillips Retrospective for a Critic
(Exhibition catalog)		 62 No
1966 McNight, Robert J Sixty Paintings Brooks Memorial Art Gallery 70 No
1965 University of New Mexico Impressionism in America An Exhibition...U of New Mexico Art Gallery
(Exhibition catalog)		 72 Yes
1961 Art Institute of Chicago Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago/A Catalogue of the Collection 490 Yes
1954 Clark, Eliot History of the National Academy of Design, 1825-1953 296 No
1939 Art Institute of Chicago Half a Century of American Art The Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 110 No
1936 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts The Main Currents in the Development of American Art
(Exhibition catalog)		 80 No
1935 Mallett, Daniel Trowbridge Mallet's Index of Artists: International-Biographical Two Volumes: Includes 1940 Index 1130 No
1933 Harshe, Robert (Introduction) A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, Art Institute of Chicago
(Exhibition catalog)		 215 No
1932 Turner, Martha M. Early Artists in Nebraska 20 No
1931 Barker, Virgil A Critical Introduction to American Painting 52 No
1931 Neuhaus, Eugen The History and Ideals of American Art 444 No
1929 Editors Who's Who in American Art American Art Annual 553 No
1925 National Academy of Design Commemorative Exhibition 1825-1925
(Exhibition catalog)		 160 No
1921 Bryant, Lorinda Munson American Pictures & their Painters 307 No
1915 Walter, John; Pedro Lemos Panama-Pacific Exposition: Catalogue of the Post-Exposition Exhibit 112 No
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