Niles Spencer (1893-1952)

Aliases: Niles Maurice Spencer

Professions: Painter

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  NILES SPENCER 1893-1952

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  Niles Spencer (American 1893-1952) Precisionist Cityscape, 1950, Oil on canvas, framed, Signed and dated, lower right. Provenance: a Bucks County collector. 20" x 24"

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  NILES SPENCER (American, 1893-1952) URBAN STREET SCENE

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  Niles Spencer 1893-1952 , New England House in Winter oil on panel

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Niles Spencer Biography

(b Pawtucket, RI, 16 May 1893; d Dingman’s Ferry, PA, 15 May 1952). American painter. His family owned Slater Mill, which, under the ownership of Samuel Slater, had introduced a new water-powered technology to manufacturing. This helped to launch the USA into the Industrial Revolution. The Spencers prospered from manufacturing and Spencer’s humanistic handling of the subject may have resulted from growing up in this industrial milieu. An art student from the age of 16 at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), he studied with Charles Woodbury in Ogunquit, ME, during the summers of 1914 and 1915 and graduated from RISD in 1915. From 1915 to 1917 he studied with Robert Henri and George Bellows at the Ferrer School in New York. He painted at Ogunquit from 1917 to 1922 and at Provincetown from 1923 to 1930. From 1931 to 1941 he produced paintings of industry and New York, before turning to a geometric abstraction (1943–52). Throughout his career he returned to still-lifes as architectural compositions.

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