Niles Spencer

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Yasuo Kuniyoshi : Niles Spencer (back center) around 1921 at an artist's party

Niles Spencer (born May 16, 1893 in Pawtucket , Rhode Island , † May 15, 1952 in Dingmans Ferry , Pennsylvania ) was an American painter.

Life

Spencer's family owned a textile factory in Pawtucket. From 1913 to 1915 he attended the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. In 1916 he moved to New York and studied with Kenneth Hayes Miller , among others . He toured Europe in the early 1920s, learning from contemporary Cubist painters as well as Italian Renaissance painting. He had his first solo exhibitions as early as the 1920s. Spencer died in 1952 the day before his 59th birthday.

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Spencer painted rural scenes and still lifes in Provincetown, Massachusetts in the 1920s. After living in New York City in the 1930s, he painted strictly geometric and highly simplified urban and industrial architecture. In many of his pictures he used a window perspective, an example of this is The Dormer Window from 1927 . His paintings in the 1930s and early 1940s can be classified as precisionism . At the end of the 1940s, his pictures became increasingly abstract .

Paintings by Niles Spencer now belong to the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art .

literature

  • Wolf Stadler and others: Lexicon of Art - Painting, Architecture, Sculpture. Volume 11 Sem – Tot Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994 ISBN 3-86070-452-4 p. 108

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ^ Niles Spencer in the Museum of Modern Art
  2. ^ Niles Spencer in the Metropolitan Museum
personal data
SURNAME Spencer, Niles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American painter
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawtucket , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1952
Place of death Dingmans Ferry , Pennsylvania