About the Artwork
On the Canal, New Hope
1916
Robert Spencer
1879-1931
American
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 30 × 36 inches (76.2 × 91.4 cm) Framed: 38 5/8 × 44 5/8 × 4 1/2 inches (98.1 × 113.3 × 11.4 cm)
Paintings
American Art before 1950
Gift of Miss Julia E. Peck
16.34
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Markings
Signed, lower left corner: Robert Spencer
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Provenance
Robert Spencer
1916-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Burroughs, Clyde. “A Painting by Robert Spencer.” Bulletin of the DMA 11, 1 (1916): pp. 2-3 (ill.).
Bryant, L.M. Pictures and their Painters. New York, 1917.
Robert Spencer: Impressionist of Working Class Life. Exh. cat., New Jersey State Museum. Trenton, 1983, p. 17, no. 11 (ill.).
American Impressionism: The New Hope Circle. Exh. cat., Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art. Fort Lauderdale, 1984, pp. 68-69 (ill.).
Crane, Michael. Detroit's Annual Exhibition of American Art: The Foundation of a Collection. www.dia.org/research/online_publications/annual_american_art, 2005
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Robert Spencer, On the Canal, New Hope, 1916, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Miss Julia E. Peck, 16.34.
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