 Spencer's paintings are generally oil on canvas, ranging in sizes from as large as 72"x50" to as small as 16"x11".Her themes were drawn from close to home often depicting idealized children, Madonna-like mothers, happy housewives, and loveable, inept husbands.Her work has been considered “"both" ideological (encouraging accommodation to norms associated with the rising middle class) and utopian (resistant to class or gender domination).