| Collection Name | Spencer, Stanley |
| RefNo | TGA 733/1/1681-1726 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Twenty-eight letters from Stanley Spencer to Hilda Spencer (written after Hilda's death). |
| Date | 1950-1959 |
| Extent | 417 pieces |
| Access Status | RESTRICTED |
| Access Conditions | Access permitted only with prior consent from the family and estate of Stanley Spencer. |
| Description | The letters concern Stanley's feelings for Hilda, reflections on their lives and his current and future paintings. He also mentions love, togetherness and his need for Hilda (TGA 733/1/1682, 1690, 1702, 1713 and 1716); religion (TGA 733/1/1717); the Regatta series (TGA 733/1/1685, 1688, 1690, 1697, 1703, 1711-12); the Hilda in Hampstead series (TGA 733/1/1685-8, 1716-17); reflections on his paintings (TGA 733/1/1681-2, 1691 particularly the Shipyard, Llandaff Last Judgement, Regatta, Scrapbooks, Port Glasgow, Resurrection, Hilda and future compositions); lists of figure pictures, landscapes, portraits, still lifes and nudes (TGA 733/1/1690); 'Purpose & fulfillment' 1936-7 (TGA 733/1/1689);, hospitalisation in 1956 (TGA 733/1/1693); Stanley's writings (TGA 733/1/1693, 1708-10); 'candle & snow' (TGA 733/1/1704, 1722); Unity Spencer (TGA 733/1/1701); composition and art (TGA 733/1/1720); Burghclere Chapel (TGA 733/1/1720); and a mystical walk on the moon with Hilda (TGA 733/1/1714). TGA 733/1/1685, 1688 and 1723 include sketches by Spencer. TGA 733/1/1707 missing 16 June 1976, TGA 733/1/1684 missing January 2002. |
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