Stanley Spencer

**Sir Stanley Spencer [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] [[CBE]] [[RA]]** (30. jun 1891 &ndash; 14. decembar 1959) bio je engleski slikar. Poznat je po opusu koji se uglavnom bavi bibkijskim prizorima, ali koji su prikazani ne u Svetoj zemlji nego u rodnom selu Cookham na obalama Temze, koju je zvao "selom na nebu."

Spencer je za vrijeme prvog svjetskog rata služio kao britanski vojnik na solunskom frontu, a potom kao službeni "ratni umjetnik", što je ponovio za drugog svjetskog rata.

Bio je oženjen dva puta, oba puta za talentirane slikarice. Prva supruga mu je bila Hilda Carline, s kojom je imao dvije kćeri. Od nje se razveo kada se zaljubio za Patriciu Preece; nakon što se udala za njega, priznala mu je da je lezbijka i nastavila živjeti sa svojom partnericom Dorothy Hepsworth. Njegovi pokušaji da se razvede nisu uspjeli, te je vanbračno živio sa svojom bivšom suprugom do njene smrti. To je kasnije postalo motiv za kazališni komad ''Stanley'' engleske dramatičarke Pam Gems.

## Literatura

* Anthony d'Offay (Firm), *Stanley Spencer, and Hilda Spencer*. Stanley and Hilda Spencer. London: Anthony d'Offay, 1978.
* *Art: Stanley Spencer, Eccentric*. Newsweek. 130, no. 20: 92. 1997
* Bell, Keith, and Stanley Spencer. *Stanley Spencer: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings*. London: Phaidon Press, 1993. 
* Glew, Adrian. *Stanley Spencer Letters and Writings*. London: Tate Publishing, 2001. 
* Gough, Paul. *Stanley Spencer: Journey to Burghclere*. Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2006. 
* Gough, Paul. *A Terrible Beauty’: British Artists in the First World War*. Bristol: Sansom and Company, 2010. 
* Hauser, Kitty, and Stanley Spencer. *Stanley Spencer*. British artists. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. 
* Haycock, David Boyd (2009). *A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War*. London, Old Street Publishing. .
* MacCarthy,Fiona.*Stanley Spencer , An English Vision* Yale University Press, 1997 
* Pople, Kenneth. *Stanley Spencer: A Biography*. London: Collins, 1991. 
* Robinson, Duncan. *Stanley Spencer*. Oxford: Phaidon, 1990. 
* Shepherd, Rosemary. *Stanley Spencer and Women*. [S.l.]: Ardent Art Publications, 2001.
* Spencer, Stanley. *A Guided Walk Round Stanley Spencer's Cookham*. [Cookham?]: Estate of Stanley Spencer, 1994.
* Spencer, Stanley, and Fiona MacCarthy. *Stanley Spencer: An English Vision*. [New Haven, Conn.]: Yale University Press in association with the British Council and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1997. 
* Spencer, Stanley, and Gilbert Spencer. *Gilbert and Stanley Spencer in Cookham: An Exhibition at the Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham 14 May – 31 August 1988*. Cookham: Stanley Spencer Gallery, 1988.
* Spencer, Stanley, and John Rothenstein. *Stanley Spencer, the Man: Correspondence and Reminiscences*. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1979. 
* Thomas, Alison, and Timothy Wilcox. *The Art of Hilda Carline: Mrs. Stanley Spencer*. London: Usher Gallery, 1999. 


## Vanjske veze

* Stanley Spencer Gallery
* Ten Dreams Galleries
* Sandham Memorial Chapel
* ''Art and Vision of Stanley Spencer''
* Berkshire History biography 
* Tate Gallery
* Artcyclopedia
* ''Love, Desire, Faith'': Kendal exhibition, 2002
* 251 Spencer images
* Stanley at the National Portrait Gellery
* Stanley in Leonard Stanley Gloucestershire - Stonehouse History Group