Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Stream and Haystacks, 1933

£775.00

SKU: 11425
Unsigned proof print.

Coloured lithograph on fine paper. 228mm x 305mm. Some discolouration along the edges.

Presentation: folio
Provenance: Simon Spear, the artist’s son.

Size: 228cm x 305cm

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

Some discolouration along the edges.

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.  

 

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THE ARTIST

Francis
Spear
1902 - 1979

Francis Howard Spear was born on 22nd December 1902 in South Norwood, south London.

He attended the LCC School of Arts and Crafts (which became the Central School of Arts and Design), he successfully passed Parts 1 and 2 of the Board of Education’s Examination in Industrial Design, specialising in stained glass in 1923.
While studying at the Central School in 1922, he became pupil-assistant to Martin Travers, the leading English practitioner of stained glass.

Spear won a National Scholarship to the Royal College of Art in 1923, with a chosen specialism stained glass.

Francis Spear is an important, though not now well-know, figure in twentieth century English stained glass. His working career covers 50 years, from 1922 when he began working with Martin Travers, to 1972, when he ceased teaching at Reigate School of Art. Spear taught John Piper lithography.

During his career, he designed some notable windows, and a short list would include his earliest window, at Warwick School (1925), St. Olave’s in the City (1929), Snaith (1936), Beckenham (1948), Canterbury (1949), Glasgow Cathedral (1951, 1953, 1958), Highbury (1955), Westgate (1960) and Penarth (1962).

MORE PICTURES BY ARTIST

SKU: 11425

(228cm x 305cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Stream and Haystacks, 1933

£775.00

SKU: 9210

(38.2cm x 53.3cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Horse Race II, 1934

£1,900.00

SKU: 9211

(40.6cm x 53.3cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Horse Race, 1934
SKU: 9209

(39.4cm x 61cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Abstract floral forms, circa 1960

£385.00

SKU: 8956

(47.9cm x 33.3cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Man and woman playing croquet

£900.00

SKU: 8934

(22.8cm x 30.5cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Stream and Haystacks, 1933

£675.00

SKU: 8517

(21.7cm x 7.5cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Saint George; design for stain glass window

£500.00

SKU: 8501

(21.5cm x 20.9cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Armchair, circa 1930

£1,100.00

SKU: 8486

(26.7cm x 20cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Man in hat, 1926

£825.00

SKU: 8444

(39cm x 56cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The Kings Lesson by William Morris, June 15th 1919

£1,500.00

SKU: 8445

(39cm x 56cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Part Two of A King’s Lesson by William Morris, 23rd June 1919

£1,500.00

SKU: 8442

(39cm x 56cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The Kings Lesson by William Morris, part 1, april 26 1919

£2,000.00

SKU: 8032

(19cm x 24.1cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Brook farm, 1924

£625.00

SKU: 8033

(19cm x 15.2cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Self portrait, the artist observing himself in an oval mirror, circa 1925

£475.00

SKU: 8034

(15.2cm x 17.8cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Hats, early 1920

£225.00

SKU: 7935

(45.7cm x 12.8cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Christ the saviour

£600.00

SKU: 7936

(49cm x 56cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

St Nicholas & St Peter, Patron of Children

£775.00

SKU: 7913

(28cm x 25.4cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Girl with Eye’s Shut 1925

£525.00

SKU: 7063

(76.2cm x 31.8cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Design for glass stained window, early 1940’s

£800.00

SKU: 7056

(44.5cm x 67cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Martyr Soldier, 1941
SKU: 7057

(104cm x 47cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

St. George and the Dragon, 1941

£3,750.00

SKU: 7059

(76cm x 50cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

For the further glory of God’s House, circa 1940

£1,100.00

SKU: 7053

(76cm x 53cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

St Mathew, St Mark, St Luke St. John

£850.00

SKU: 7054

(71cm x 47cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Christ Derided, Nov 1942

£2,750.00

SKU: 6508

(20.2cm x 22.3cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Girl with Eye’s Shut 1925

£1,150.00

SKU: 6334

(34.2cm x 29.2cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The artist’s wife knitting, c 1929

£1,675.00

SKU: 5788

(32cm x 24cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

The Artist’s Boots, 1932

£1,850.00

SKU: 5758

(10.2cm x 13.5cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Discarded shoes, circa 1925

£475.00

SKU: 5750

(22.8cm x 30.5cm)

Francis Spear (1902 - 1979)

Stream and Haystacks, 1933

£775.00