| Collection Name | Spencer, Stanley |
| RefNo | TGA 733/1/2040-2096 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Postcard, document and sixty one letters (drafts or copies) from Stanley Spencer to Dudley Tooth, Richard Smart, David Elf and Peter Cochrane, all of Arthur Tooth & Sons. |
| Date | August 1935-November 1959 |
| Extent | 91 pieces |
| Access Status | RESTRICTED |
| Access Conditions | Access permitted only with prior consent from the family and estate of Stanley Spencer. |
| Description | The letters largely concern Spencer's finances, his relationship with the company and the development and sale of his paintings. Particular topics include finances and money (TGA 733/1/2041, 2043-4, 2046-7, 2050-52, 2065, 2068, 2071, 2082, 2086 and 2094); Spencer's relationship with Tooth's (TGA 733/1/2050-4, 2067, 2071, 2074 and 2087-8); Dudley Tooth (TGA 733/1/2045); copyright (TGA 733/1/2040); divorce (TGA 733/1/2046; war (TGA 733/1/2048); publishers (Penguin) and a Phaidon book (TGA 733/1/2029); photographs (TGA 733/1/2061, 2063 and 2080); trip to Cornwall (TGA 733/1/2043-44); William Marchant and the Goupil Gallery (TGA 733/1/2060); exhibitions (TGA 733/1/2065, 2074, 2093a); the Paris Salon (TGA 733/1/2089); landscapes (TGA 733/1/2042, 2049 and 2086); portraits (TGA 733/1/2075 and 2091); 'sex' paintings (TGA 733/1/2076); 'the triptych' (TGA 733/1/2078); Port Glasgow paintings (TGA 733/1/2059); Burghlere Chapel (TGA 733/1/2080); St. Paul's Cathedral (TGA 733/1/2090); 'Beatitude 5: Contemplation' (TGA 733/1/2055-56); 'Christ in the Wilderness' series (TGA 733/1/2057); 'Separating Swans', 'Scarecrow' and 'Workmen in the House' (TGA 733/1/2040); 'Hillside Cookham' (TGA 733/1/2049 and 2069); 'Cockmarsh Hill', 'Poundfield Cookham', 'Cookham Rise Cottages', 'Cookham Lock' and 'Lillies' (TGA 733/1/2049); 'The Resurrection' (TGA 733/1/2060); and 'By the River/Riverside' (TGA 733/1/2063). |
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