{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"31064"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Anonymous gift"},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"61.021"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"A Precisionist painter who was influenced by European Cubism, Nile Spencer is best known for his unembellished arrangements of architectural forms.  Although he used crisply defined zones of color to depict his motifs, as did other Precisionist artists, his work is warmer in feeling and less impersonal than that of other figures in this movement, such as Charles Sheeler or Charles Demuth.  He was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and studied at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and at the National Academy of Design in New York.  His sources included the art of Paul Cézanne as well as American folk art and Shaker furniture.  From 1913 until 1922 he was associate with the summer artists' colony in Ogunquit, Maine.  He later spent summers in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and Sag Harbor, Long Island.  During the 1930s Spencer concentrated on images of New York streets, architectural structurs, and industry.  In the next decade Spencer adopted a more abstract style than in the past; the hard-edged planes of his work at this time anticipated geometric abstract painting of the 1960s.~~~\"America Gone Modern: From the Twenties to the Sixties,\" Spanierman Gallery, March 11 - April 29, 2000."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Oil on canvas"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":"61.021"},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"The Bay"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Paintings"},"people":{"label":"Artist / Maker / Culture","value":"Niles Spencer"},"primaryMedia":{"value":"https://emuseum.cornell.edu/internal/media/dispatcher/92235/full"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"1937"},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"186747"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"20 x 32 inches (50.8 x 81.3 cm)"}}]}