End of Day
End of Day

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End of Day

Robert Spencer, 1879–1931; born Harvard, NE; died New Hope, PA
y1943-67
Among the most accomplished of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, a group active around Bucks County, Pennsylvania, during the early twentieth century, Spencer specialized in paintings of the area’s historic mills and other light industrial buildings. End of Day depicts a characteristic scene incorporating workers along what is likely the Delaware and Raritan Canal in Lambertville, New Jersey.

Information

Title
End of Day
Maker
Robert Spencer
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
51 x 60 cm (20 1/16 x 23 5/8 in.) frame: 67.3 x 78.1 x 4.7 cm (26 1/2 x 30 3/4 x 1 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Albert E. McVitty, Class of 1898
Object Number
y1943-67
Place Made

North America, United States

Signatures
Signed, lower right: Robert Spencer.
Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, paintings
Materials
canvas, oil paint
Subject
women, dwellings, figures (representations), carts, boats, streetscapes, horses, men

Donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by Albert E. McVitty (1876-1948), 1943.

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