{"id":244878,"date":"2025-10-28T04:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244878\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T04:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T04:29:15","slug":"stanley-spencers-christ-preaching-at-cookham-regatta-on-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/244878\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Spencer’s Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta on display"},"content":{"rendered":"

An unfinished painting by a leading twentieth century British artist will be displayed at eye level for the first time in over ten years as part of a new exhibition.<\/p>\n

Sir Stanley Spencer is synonymous with Cookham in Berkshire<\/a>, where he was born and lived and his most famous works are perhaps biblical scenes he set there.<\/p>\n

His Christ Preaching at Cookham Regatta, which he had worked on for seven years before his death in 1959, is displayed at the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham.<\/p>\n

One of his largest and most ambitious works, it is more than five metres long and will be displayed at eye level rather than from its normally elevated position between 6 November and 29 March 2026.<\/p>\n

Visitors to the Revealing Genius, Conserving Art: Stanley Spencer’s Final Masterpiece exhibition will also be able to learn more about Spencer’s technique.<\/p>\n

Olivia Leake, a conservator in her final year of study at the Courtauld Institute of art, will work in the gallery and examine the canvas to reveal Spencer’s creative process.<\/p>\n

Amanda Bradley Petitgas, the gallery’s curator, said: “At the end of Spencer’s life, in Christ Preaching, he returned to his youthful evocations of religious visions in Cookham, creating a work that is both triumphant and nostalgic.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unfinished painting by a leading twentieth century British artist will be displayed at eye level for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-244878","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}