Artist

Ruskin Spear

Ruskin Spear is an artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.

London painter Ruskin Spear brought the drama of daily life onto canvas. His watercolour “China Clay Works, Great Wheal Prosper, Tresayes, Roche” (c. 1940) captures the gritty, industrial stretch of Cornwall’s claypits, and his portrait “Laurence Olivier as Macbeth” (1955) freezes the actor’s tense, ghost-lit moment on stage. Trace Spear’s brush from clay pits to playhouse by opening either piece in the gallery.

Works by Ruskin Spear

Collections represented

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