Following his return to New York from Taos, Spanier continued to take evening drawing classes at NYU with Samuel Adler (1898-1979). He spent part of the summer of 1949 in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where he modeled at the Hans Hofmann School. Also in 1949, Spanier made his first trip to Paris, where he became friends with the Canadian painter Stephen Andrews (1922-1995), who introduced Spanier to the spiritual teachings of G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky, and the circle of Gurdjieff’s disciple Mme. Jeanne Matignon de Salzmann (1889-1990). In 1949-50, following his return to New York, Spanier became a student at the Hans Hofmann School in New York City.
