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| Niles Spencer
American 1893 -1952
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| Born: |
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
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| Died: |
Pennsylvania, United States
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| Studied: |
Rhode Island School of Design 1913-1915
Ferrer School
Art Students League, New York City
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| Instructors: |
Robert Henri
George Wesley Bellows
Kenneth Hayes Miller
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| Examples of Work: |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Newark Museum, New Jersey
Philips Collection, Washington DC
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
San Francisco Art Institute Galleries
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| Specialty: |
Painter
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| Style/School: |
Precisionism
Cubism
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| Subjects Known For: |
Industrial
New England
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A Precisionist painter who was influenced by European Cubism, Niles Spencer is best known for his unembellished arrangements of architectural forms. Although he used crisply defined zones of color to depict his motifs, as ...
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Niles Spencer was educated at the Ogunquit School in 1913, then at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1913-15 and the following year at the Art Students League where he studied with Bellows and Henri. He also traveled abroad to study in France and Italy in 1921 to '22. Spencer worked in the P...
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Niles Spencer was an important American Modernist whose work is associated with a group of American painters known as the Precisionists, a loosely-knit group that included Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, and Rawlston Crawfo...
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