An exhibition of work by acclaimed British painter, Stanley Spencer.
Manchester Art Gallery
Saturday 29 November 2014–Sunday 1 March 2015
Free
In autumn 2014, Manchester Art Gallery presented Stanley Spencer: Heaven in a Hell of War, an exhibition of work by acclaimed British painter, Stanley Spencer, on loan from the National Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel. This exhibition featured a series of large-scale arched canvases and side panels detailing scenes of the artist’s own wartime experiences. Working as a soldier within a hospital, his recollections focus on the domestic rather than the combative and evoke everyday experience in which he found spiritual resonance and sustenance.
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Kit Inspection, Stanley Spencer at Sandham, (detail)
© NT and John Hammond
© The Estate of Stanley Spencer, The Bridgeman Art Library.
