Writings, 1958-2018, undated

Consists of two subseries: Subseries 1. Published Writings and Subseries 2. Other Writings. Published Writings comprises journal articles, book reviews, auction and exhibition catalogs, and exhibit reviews that Spear wrote over the course of his career. These include articles concerning Caravaggio, Domenichino, Guido Reni, and Artemisia Gentileschi. Also included are his notes related to the publication of Caravaggio and His Followers (1971), Domenichino (1982), and Painting for Profit: The Economic Lives of Seventeenth-century Italian Painters (2010). Subseries 2. Other Writings contains student papers written by Spear while he was a graduate student at Princeton University from 1961 to 1963.