About this artwork
This beautiful and tender drawing depicts Stanley's wife Hilda. Spencer worked on this drawing and other pencil studies of Hilda in the evenings, while painting the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Burghclere. Although the Spencers' marriage started to break down around 1932, this work shows Stanley's love for his wife. The drawing is made with the point of a hard pencil and is lightly modelled. The precise, academic style can be seen also in Spencer's paintings. Around the same time as this drawing was made, Hilda completed a drawing of Stanley which complements this work.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Stanley SpencerEnglish (1891 - 1959)
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title:Hilda Spencer
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date created:1931
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materials:Pencil on paper
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measurements:50.80 x 35.20 cm
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credit line:Purchased 1978
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accession number:GMA 2067
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Stanley Spencer
Stanley Spencer
Spencer was born at Cookham in Berkshire. From 1908 to 1912 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, where contemporaries included Paul Nash and Ben Nicholson. While still at the Slade Spencer began his celebrated series of biblical scenes re-enacted in the streets of Cookham. From...
