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Date/Time
Date(s) - 25/04/2014
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Location
Scarborough Art Gallery
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with David Taylor
The great British artist Stanley Spencer was a hospital orderly in Bristol and a soldier on the forgotten Salonika front during the First World War. Later he painted soldiers in domestic not warlike situations. He described these magnificent paintings of ‘heaven in a hell of war’ as ‘a symphony of rashers of bacon’ with ‘tea-making obligato’.
The paintings hang in the National Trust’s Sandham Memorial Chapel and in this illustrated talk David Taylor, the NT’s Curator of Pictures and Sculpture, explains Spencer’s unique Great War viewpoint.
In association with Scarborough Museums Trust
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