Comments on: Stanley Spencer, Chatham Docks and the dignity of labour

By: WolfieWolfgang

WolfieWolfgang — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:46:33 +0000

Thanks David, I shall definitely try to get to Sandham one of these days and I will also look out for your book. I really like Gertler too. Sorry not to have met you at Chatham.

By: David Boyd Haycock

David Boyd Haycock — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:08:51 +0000

Fascinating review of the show – and great to see the photographs, too. I was a curator at the NMM till last year, but sadly didn't make it on to the guest list for the opening!

Like Chris says, do try and visit Sandham – really I think Spencer's greatest work (along with his Cookham Ressurection). And can I recommend my own book, if you've not seen it, "A Crisis of Brilliance: 5 Young British Artists and the Great War", all about Spencer and his Slade School contemporaries – Paul Nash, Mark Gertler et al.

By: WolfieWolfgang

WolfieWolfgang — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:19:06 +0000

Thanks Chris…..delighted if this has made you plan a trip to Chatham…well worth it.

I haven't been to the Sandham Chapel but would love to…I have admired the photographs of it that I have seen….I find Spencer very encouraging and up-lifting and, nicely weird.

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 10:02:42 +0000

Thanks for such prompt and informative on the Spencer works at Chatham. You inspire me to go next Saturday. If you admire Spencer's work, have you been to the Sandham Memorial Chapel at Newbury? A very distinctive evocation of life in WW1.