Arthur Prince Spear

American (1879-1959)

Arthur Prince Spear was born in Washington, DC in 1879. He studied at the Art Student’s League in New York from 1899 to 1902, then at the Academy Julian in Paris from 1902 to 1907. He was also a pupil of Jean Paul Laurens in Paris. Spear settled in Boston in 1907 and taught life drawing at the Fenway School of Illustration. In the 1940s he moved to Waban and spent his summers in Friendship and Warren, Maine. He was a member of the Boston Art Club, National Academy of Design, St. Botolf’s Club, Allied Artists of America, Guild of Boston Artists and Copley Society. Spear exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition of 1915, the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Boston Art Club.

Spear’s work is in the Whistler House Museum of Art in Lowell, MA, and the Ellwood House Museum in Dekalb, IL.