The Cities, the Towns, the Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer

by Brian H. Peterson

Book Overview

In 1906 a young painter named Robert Spencer moved from the hustle and bustle of New York City to the bucolic Bucks County region in nearby southeastern Pennsylvania. Over the next twenty-five years, Spencer became one of the most prominent artists in the Pennsylvania impressionist art colony, a group of nationally known landscape painters centered in the picturesque village of New Hope. His first major success came when the Metropolitan Museum...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081223829X
• ISBN13: 9780812238297
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 158 Pages
• Weight: 2.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 12.0"