Arthur Prince Spear

Spear was experimental with his art, changing subject matter and style frequently.^[7] His works from 1907 to 1915 centered on Bostonian historical sites but shifted in 1915, when he produced several paintings of women in the American Impressionism style.^[7] Starting in 1917, Spear's style evolved to have bolder colors, imaginary scenery, and fanciful subjects ranging from mermaids to satyrs.^[7] Frequently, his children modeled for his paintings.^[1]

During the Great Depression, there was reduced demand for expensive art, so Spear made a number of lithographs of his previous paintings to supplement his income.^[1] Sometime after 1944, he stopped painting and destroyed much of his work.^[3] A retrospective of his work was held at The Guild of Boston Artists in 1951.^[8]

Spear belonged to The Guild of Boston Artists, the St. Botolph Club, the New York Watercolor Club, the Allied American Artists, and was an Associate of the National Academy of Design.^[5] He won a silver medal for Spring in the City in 1915 at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.^[9] At the National Academy of Design, he won the Benjamin Altman Prize for Sunrise in 1921 and the Henry Ward Ranger Fund Purchase Prize for The Little Princess in 1924.^[6]

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  The Nymph and the Turtle, 1920
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  Sunrise, 1921
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  Titania, 1927
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  Sea Weeds, 1927