Sales per Year

Humphrey John Spender

Humphrey John Spender (1910 - 2005) was active/lived in United Kingdom.  Humphrey Spender is known for Painting.

Humphrey John Spender was a painter, photographer and designer. He studied architecture initially but set up a photographic studio on the Strand soon after qualifying. Through his photographs Spender became a keen observer of British society, working first for the Daily Mirror and then later for the Mass Observation movement, an independent body which aimed to capture the reality of daily life in Britain. In 1938 he joined the newly-founded Picture Post magazine, for whom he worked into the 1950s. Humphrey was conscripted as an official war photographer from 1941, and following the war returned to painting from the 1950s. He became a successful textile designer, teaching in the Royal College of Art textile department for 20 years, and numerous examples of his designs are in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. A major retrospective of his photographs, Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes: Photo-documents, 1932-1942 was held at the Yale Centre for Britis   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1381 characters.]  Artist bio

Artist auction records

.  askART's database currently holds 111 auction lots for Humphrey John Spender (of which 82 auction records sold and 0 are upcoming at auction.)

Artist artworks for sale and wanted

.  There are 0 artworks for sale on our website by galleries and art dealers . There are 0 galleries and art dealers listing works of art by Humphrey John Spender as either "Wanted" or "For Sale" .

Research resources

.  askART lists Humphrey John Spender in 0 of its research Essays. Humphrey John Spender has 5 artist signature examples available in our database.

Similar artists

.  There are 24 similar (related) artists for Humphrey John Spender available:    Fred Uhlman,  Roy Turner Durrant,  Cedric Morris,  Kenneth Rowntree,  Carel Victor Marlais Weight,  Frank Beanland,  Robert Sadler,  David Tindle,  Conroy Maddox,  Frederick Gore,  Henry Cliffe,  Maurice Cockrill,  Lucy Harwood,  Reginald C Brill,  Gilbert Spencer,  John William Melville,  Allan Gwynne Jones,  Keith Vaughan,  Rowland Suddaby,  Bernard Meninsky,  Maggi Hambling,  Linda Weir,  Bryan Pearce,  Ruskin Spear