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 […]
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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
Cat in a Bovril Box
Ruskin Spear R.A. (British, 1911-1990) Cat in a Bovril box signed ‘Ruskin Spear’ (lower right) oil on board 61 x 51 cm. (24 x 20 in.) Provenance: The Fosse Gallery, Gloucestershire, 1988 Auctioned by Bonhams, 6 March 2007 – https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/14814/lot/5/
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
Strawberry Mousse
“Strawberry Mousse” Currently hanging behind the bar at Wilton’s Restaurant, London.
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 […]
Winter Sea
From the Messum’s site: In the 1950s and 1960s, Spear made periodic trips to the Sussex coast and painted several views of Brighton, in particular. Spear based this spectacular study of breaking waves on views taken from the Undercliff Walk at Rottingdean, just a mile or two east of Brighton Pier.
Portrait of The Queen (or 'The Blue Headscarf')
c. 1978. Oil on Canvas