The Slade Picnic: Stanley Spencer

delivered by Alan Read

Continuing from Alan's hugely successful series of 2021, he will be looking at the work of the artists pictured in the Slade Students’ Picnic photograph of 1912. This extraordinary generation represented a galaxy of stars of Modern British Art.

25/3/22 Christopher Nevinson (now available as recording)

Fri 1/4/22 Stanley Spencer

Cookham was the birthplace and unlikely setting for most of the visionary paintings of Stanley

Spencer (1891-1959): The Resurrection, Cookham (1927) and Sandham Memorial Chapel (1927-32)

are among the masterpieces of Modern British Art. He was equally adept at portrait commissions

and landscapes/still lives, which found a ready market. Both Spencer’s wives were Slade-trained

painters; having divorced Hilda Carline he married Patricia Preece and she was the subject of some

striking (even disturbing) nude portraits. This lecture will examine the life and work of this major

British artist.

NB You can still watch the recording: Love & Delusion: The Story of the Artist Wives of Stanley Spencer here

Fri 8/4/22 William Roberts (Adrian Allinson & Isaac Rosenberg)

Born in Hackney, William Roberts (1895-1980) followed a similar path to many of his contemporaries

into the Slade and on to become a war artist. He was part of the Vorticist movement which made

him one of the most cutting-edge artists of the time. In the 1920s he evolved a new style of ‘English

Cubism’ and London remained his home and the life of Londoners his subject. He continued to work

into his eighties and to exhibit at the Royal Academy. This lecture will also briefly look at the work of

Adrian Allinson (1890-1959) and Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918).

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