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Cookham and Gwen: Stanley Spencer and Gwen Raverat's Letters
Cookham and Gwen Stanley Spencer and Gwen Raverat's Letters Author:William Pryor Stanley Spencer and Gwen Raverat were at the Slade School of Art in London together in the first decade of the 20th century. They became friends, Gwen being one of the first to recognize the genius in Stanley Spencer's strangely obsessive art. To support him, she bought his pictures when few others were. Now he is recognized as one of England's ... more »greatest painters of the 20th century, meriting the recent major exhibition at Tate Britain. This book is the vapor trail of their friendship left in their letters.« less