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Robert Spencer

Painter

Centurion, 1922–1931

Full Name Robert Carpenter Spencer

Born 1 December 1879 in Harvard, Nebraska

Died 11 July 1931 in New Hope, Pennsylvania

Proposed by Augustus Vincent Tack and Henry K. Pomroy

Elected 14 January 1922 at age forty-two

Century Memorial

Robert Spencer’s landscapes hang on the walls of the Academy of Design, the Corcoran Gallery, the Carnegie Institute and the art museums of Boston, Chicago and Detroit. His paintings are of subdued and restful character, realistic yet with a touch of imagination.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1932 Century Association Yearbook