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Hilda Spencer is probably best known as the wife and beloved muse of Stanley Spencer. However, she was an artist in her own right and came from an artistic background: both of her parents and her two brothers were artists. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London,...
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Hilda Anne Carline was born on 20 November 1889 to the artist George Francis Carline and Annie Smith Carline, who had been adopted by a relative and never knew her mother or father, John Smith. Carline was one of five children born to the family. Of her brothers, Richard and Sydneybecame artists, and George chose another career. The family moved ma...
Education and World War I service
George Carline taught his daughter to paint until October 1913, when she enrolled in the school that Percyval Tudor-Hart had established in Hampstead. Prior to that, Tudor-Hart had a school in Paris where her brothers Sydney and Richard had studied. Now, Sydney, Richard and Hilda lived and studied together, sharing their opinions about art. Hilda focused on making watercolour paintings and sketching. Tudor-Hart, a Post-Impressionist who was an early proponent of colour theories of Wassily Kan...
Marriage
In December 1919, she met Stanley Spencer. He liked the fact that she was a devout Christian Scientist, talented, imaginative and striking.Spencer said of her: "I felt she had the same mental attitude to things as I had. I saw myself in that extraordinary person. I saw life with her." The Carline family travelled for painting retreats and Stanley Spencer accompanied them on the 1920 Seaford, Sussex, 1922 Yugoslavia and 1924 Essex and Suffolk trips. Spencer and Hilda Carline often painted land...
Art
When she began she made daring, unique paintings. She then was immersed in what Alfred Hickling of The Guardianphrased was "the most bizarre domestic soap opera in the history of British art." She was one of the early British modernist painters and made important works and interacted with other artists in the movement. She never developed a theme or signature style, largely because of the long periods of not painting when she was married. Carline struggled to see herself, and have others see...
A few of her works are: 1. A fantasy,1914 2. Cliffs* 3. Cookham Bridge* 4. Downshire Hill Garden* 5. Elsie,1929, Brighton and Hove Museum * 6. Hampstead* 7. Lady in Green (Patricia Preece) * 8. Portrait of the Artist's Mother,1930, private collector* 9. Return from the Farm,1919 10. Seaford,East Sussex * 11. Self-Portrait, 1923, Tate 12. Swans* 1. ...
Richard Carline (1973). The Spencers and the Carlines in Hampstead in the 1920s: An Exhibition at the Cookham Festival, 1973. Friends of the Stanley Spencer Gallery.Ian Chilvers (2009). The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. Oxford University Press. pp. 594–596. ISBN 978-0-19-953294-0.Christie's South Kensington, Ltd (2003). Twentieth Century British Art: Including Works from the Studio of Hilda Carline. Christie's.Alicia Foster (15 June 2004). Tate Women Artists. Harry N. Abrams. pp. 77–78. ISBN 978-1-85437-311-3.13 de dez. de 2022 · She has become familiar to us as Spencer's first wife and muse, the mother of his children, and as a participant in 'the most bizarre domestic soap opera in the history of British art' when Spencer, infatuated with Patricia Preece (with whom he never lived) divorced Carline.
Hilda Anne Carline (1889–1950) was a British painter, daughter of the artist George Francis Carline, and first wife of the artist Stanley Spencer.
A collaborative collection by Rosie Jackson and Graham Burchell, these poems follow the life and explore the work of visionary artist Stanley Spencer, giving voice to his complex personal life and the relative invisibility of artist Hilda Carline, his first wife.
In this collection the paintings by Stanley Spencer, and on one occasion by Hilda Carline, function as touchstones that appear mainly in chronological order as we move through the lives of the artists.
she married, in 1925, the artist Stanley Spencer (1891’1959). Their turbulent union resulted in periods when Carline hardly painted at all and eventually, in 1942, she suffered a breakdown.
