Major Solo Exhibitions:
Robert Spencer: Impressionist of Working Class Life, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, New Jersey, 1983
The Cities, The Towns, The Crowds: The Paintings of Robert Spencer, James A. Michener Art Museum,Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 2004

Major Group Exhibitions:
Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, from 1909 to 1931
Philadelphia Art Club, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1910
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1910 to 1932
Twenty-Fifth International Exhibition, Carnegie Institute,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1926
50th Anniversary Retrospective Art Exhibition , Phillips Mill, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1979
The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Painters of the New Hope School, James A. Michener Arts Center, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1990
Masterworks of American Impressionism, James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania, 1994
Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism and Its Response in Pennsylvania Painting 1900-1950,
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, PA, 2007
Selected Major Collections:
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
New Hope-Solebury Bank,(presently PNC Bank), New Hope, Pennsylvania
Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania