Francis Spear:
RCA Sketch 'The Little Manor Farm'
Framed (ref: 5761)
Titled on reverse
Oil on board

Tags: Francis Spear oil panel farms/domestic animals Golden Generation RCA

Provenance: Simon Spear, the artist’s son

Text on reverse;

RCA Sketch 'The Little Manor Farm'. Name Francis H. Spear
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For Chris Paize (?) 

"Landscape in oil". A

Francis Howard Spear (1902-1979) was a printmaker and a stained glass artist who attended the Royal College of Art with Bawden, Ravilious in the mid 1920's and later went onto teach at the School. The V&A holds examples of his stained glass and a number of designs for stained glass, and his coloured lithographic print Horse Race.  

Haystacks were a frequent motif in Spear's work - so much so that his friends called him'Haystacks Spear'.