British Pathé film of Stanley Spencer

Cover of Stanley Spencer 
- the Catalogue raisonné by Keith Bell

This is a British Pathé film of Sir Stanley Spencer going about his business in Cookham in 1950.

The topic is "Royal Academy Take Back Old Rebel" and concerns his return to exhibiting at the Royal Academy of Arts from which he has resigned as a member in 1935 after two of his paintings were rejected from the Summer Exhibition.

The paintings were:

• Saint Francis and the Birds - which is now owned by Tate Britain
• The Dustman or The Lovers - which is now part of the Laing Art Gallery Collection

I'm not surprised he resigned!

Links:

• About Stanley Spencer - English Painter - my website about Spencer
• 'Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War' at Somerset House - about the recent exhibition of his First World War Paintings at Somerset House
• Cliveden, Cookham and Stanley Spencer - about a visit I paid to Cookham in 2007