Public Bar (Study for Mr. Hollingberry's Canary)

oil on canvas 18 x 16 in. (45.7 x 40.7 cm.) Painted in 1962. The present work is a study for the remarkable painting Mr. Hollingberry’s Canary, 1963 (Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston), and perfectly captures Ruskin Spear’s mastery of the intimate narrative of pub life. Here, he depicts the surroundings of the ‘Hampshire Hog’, one […]

Sleeping Cat

Sleeping Cat  – Somerset Museums Service Oil on board, 70.3 x 78 cm. Acquired for the Education Loan Service View on Art UK

Professor Carel Weight

Not inscribed. Oil on hardboard, 56 3/4×45 3/4 (144×116). Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1962. View this work at TATE

Snow Scene (1946)

Not inscribed. Oil on millboard, 17 3/4×24 3/4 (45×63). Chantrey Purchase from the artist 1947. Exh: R.A., 1947 Ruskin Wrote in 1958 that this picture was painted at Christmas-time in 1946 and is a view from the front-room window of his house at 20 Rivercourt Road, Hammersmith, where he lived until 1959. View this work […]