Creek Road, Deptford, London, 29 August 1952
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Creek Road, Deptford, London, 29 August 1952 1952

Noël Spencer (1900–1986)

Museum of London

Printmaker and artist in black-and-white, born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Studied at Ashton-under-Lyne School of Art, Manchester School of Art and Royal of Art. He held a number of teaching positions, notably principal Norwich School of Art 1946–64. Exhibited RA, RBSA, Norwich Twenty Group, NEAC and widely in America. Public galleries in Birmingham, Sheffield, Huddersfield and Chicago hold his work, the Museum of London having a considerable collection. Spencer was interested in depicting townscapes and landscapes, a notable achievement in the 1940s being many pen drawings of Huddersfield, completed while he was head of the Art School there. Finally lived in Norwich.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

Artworks by Noël Spencer

  • Creek Road, Deptford, London, 29 August 1952
    Creek Road, Deptford, London, 29 August 1952 Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Kensal Green Cemetery, London
    Kensal Green Cemetery, London Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Façade of the Church of St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate, London
    Façade of the Church of St Ethelburga, Bishopsgate, London Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Pickle Herring Street, London
    Pickle Herring Street, London Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Looking down Clink Street from Southwark Cathedral, London
    Looking down Clink Street from Southwark Cathedral, London Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Bayswater, London
    Bayswater, London Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    Museum of London
  • Mow Cop from Kent Green
    Mow Cop from Kent Green Noël Spencer (1900–1986)
    The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery
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Painter, etcher, stained glass artist and teacher born in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, the son of a school teacher.

Spencer studied at Ashton under Lyne School of Art and Manchester School of Art and the Royal College of Art. His teaching posts included drawing master of Moseley School of Art, Birmingham and similar posts at Huddersfield, Sheffield and finally at Norwich School of Art from where he retired in 1964. During his time in that city, he was a member and exhibitor with Norfolk and Norwich Art Circle and the Norwich 20 Group.

His subject matter was largely architectural in watercolour and tempera and he exhibited at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Walker Art Gallery, New English Art Club and Royal Academy of Arts. Examples of his work are held in the collections of the Museum of London, Fleetwood Museum, Potteries Museum and Art Gallery, Royal Cornwall Museum, Museums Sheffield, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Kirklees Museums and Galleries and Great Yarmouth Museums.

Spencer retired in 1964 from Norwich and died there in 1986.

Biography from Liss Llewellyn

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