early life and education niles spencer, an american painter of the precisionist school, was born on may 16, 1893, in pawtucket, rhode island. he studied at the rhode island school of design from 1913 to 1915 and later attended the ferrer school in new york city, where he was taught by robert henri and george bellows. artistic style and influences spencer's work is characterized by its geometric shapes and crisp focus, often depicting industrial scenes. his style was influenced by european cubism, which he was exposed to during his travels to europe in 1921-22 and again in 1928-1929. the metro…
A chart of niles spencer's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.
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