A Genius for Flowers: Gluck and Constance Spry | LGBTQ History
A vase of white flowers, a painter known only as Gluck, and the florist who arranged them. A 1930s London love story.
Tonight we travel to Hampstead and Mayfair to meet Gluck (1895 to 1978), the painter who wanted "no prefix, suffix, or quotes," and Constance Spry (1886 to 1960), the florist who filled Bond Street windows with hedgerow leaves and later arranged flowers for a coronation. Their love lasted from 1932 to 1936 and left behind some of the loveliest flower paintings of the century, in frames designed to melt into the wall.
Along the way: a new studio under the north light, white…
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