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Exhibitions

Imagine being married to Stanley Spencer

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

5 September 2020

9:00 AM

Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer

Stanley Spencer Gallery, Cookham, until summer 2021

It sometimes rains in Cookham. It rained all day when I visited the Stanley Spencer Gallery to see the exhibition Love, Art, Loss: The Wives of Stanley Spencer. But it rarely rained for Spencer, or at least never in his pictures of his hallowed birthplace, where even when skies are grey the red brick of the houses is warmed by the eternal summer sun of childhood.

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