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Extract from the Cookham Travel Guides:
Tiny
COOKHAM
, on the other side of the Thames just three miles southeast of Marlow - and not to be confused with neighbouring Cookham Dean and Cookham Rise - is noteworthy as the former home of
Stanley Spencer
(1891-1959), one of Britain's greatest - and most eccentric - artists. The Bible fired Spencer's imagination and many of his paintings depict biblical tales transposed into his Cookham surroundings - remarkable, visionary works in which the village is turned into a sort of earthly paradise. Spencer made his artistic name in the 1920s, firstly as an official war artist and then for his
Resurrection: Co...
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