Stanley Spencer (1891-1959) explored fundamental issues of life with an urgency and persistence unique among British artists of his generation. His art comments

Finding inspiration in his quiet village on the river Thames, early 20th-century painter Stanley Spencer drew on his familiar world to arrive at an art of epic

Abridged version from the catalogue raisonné on one of Britain's most influential painters.

Autobiography of Unity Spencer, daughter of Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline.