In a New Light: 500 Years of British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-04-01 - 2026-01-30)Figuring Women - The Female in Modern British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-03-28 - 2008-06-08)Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
Annual Exhibition of 20th Century British Paintings, Watercolours and Drawings, Spink & Sons, London, 1991, no. 55, N6768 S685 1991 (YCBA)Keith Bell, Stanley Spencer : A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings, Phaidon, London, 1992, pp. 348, 350, 494-495, no. 368, NJ18 Sp35 A12 B45 1992 (YCBA)Christie's Sale Catalogue : British and Irish Modernist and Contemporary Paintings, Watercolours and Sculpture : 8 June 1990, Christie's, London, June 8, 1990, p. 94, Lot 288, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)The Portraiture of Hands, The Times (London), London, 1960, p. 16, available online via The Times Digital ArchiveAngus Trumble, The Finger : A Handbook, , Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010, p. 173, GT498.F46 T78 2010 (YCBA)Twentieth-Century British Art : From Sickert to Hirst, 1-24th April 1998, Spink-Leger Pictures ... London. , Spink-Leger, Ltd., London, 1998, no. 20, DealerCat Spink Leger Pictures (YCBA)R. H. Wilenski, Contemporary English Painting : A Personal Survey, The Sphere, vol. 214, London, February 27, 1954, p. 299, fig. 1, available online via ProQuest
Gallery Label:
Stanley Spencer maintained the figurative tradition in British art before and after the Second World War at a time when abstraction was considered more sophisticated and avant-garde. He was also a talented, if not always flattering, portraitist and took inspiration from the northern old master tradition, especially the work of Jan van Eyck and Hans Holbein. This portrait was commissioned by Dr. Osmund Frank, along with a pendant of himself. Frank was a physician and Mayor of Maidenhead, and Mrs. Frank assumes the role of a provincial dignitary’s wife: she was, however, a talented figure in her own right, practicing psychiatry under her maiden name, Dr. Winifred Doherty. Shortly after sitting for Spencer, whom they counted as a personal friend, the Franks moved to Jamaica, where they continued to practice medicine. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016