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Robert Spencer
American 1879 -1931
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Born: |
Harvard, Nebraska, United States
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Studied: |
National Academy of Design 1899-1901 New York School of Art 1903-1905
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Instructors: |
William Merritt Chase Robert Henri Frank Vincent DuMond
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Examples of Work: |
Art Institute of Chicago Brooklyn Museum of Art Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Detroit Institute of Arts Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas National Academy of Design National Arts Club Collection National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC Philadelphia Museum of Art Philips Collection, Washington DC
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Specialty: |
Painter
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Style/School: |
New Hope School Impressionism
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Subjects Known For: |
Architecture Social Problems Religion
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Memberships: |
Century Association National Academy of Design ANA 1914; NA 1920 National Arts Club Salmagundi Club, New York
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Teaching Positions: |
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 1925
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Artist Profile |
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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....
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Robert Spencer attended the National Academy of Design from 1899-1901 and then went to the New York School of Design (1903-05). In 1909 Spencer studied independently with Daniel Garber, a popular artist of the New Hope Schoo...
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