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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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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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