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Article: Spencer art finds the miraculous in ordinary things.(Arts)(Art)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- October 12, 1997
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At the exact hour that British painter Stanley Spencer was born, a rook flew down the chimney of his parents' Cookham village home and flapped around the living room. Spencer, whose first U.S. retrospective opened Thursday at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, later claimed the rook's arrival - along with his own on June 30, 1891 - as a good omen.
The artist's predilection for finding the miraculous in everyday events such as these in the ordinary village of Cookham, on the Thames some 30 miles from London, shows a sensitivity that allies him with previous English visionary artists such as William Blake and Henry Fuseli. In fact, the passion with ...
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Article: Spencer, Betty J.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;
September 15, 2007 ;
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...Spencer, Betty J. Age 88, of Waukesha, died Thursday, September ... Reilly Law firm and was a member of E & R United Church of Christ. Beloved mother of Carol Ann Spencer and Nancy Spencer both of Waukesha. She was preceded in death by her husband ...
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