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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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Artist Profile |
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BIOGRAPHY: |
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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