Alfred Wallis/Ben Nicholson at Compton Verney

Went to the great Adam house at Compton Verney in Warwickshire yesterday to see the above.This was another very interesting small show at this stylish cultural centre.They often do good shows and it makes for a nice day out from London up the M40.I strongly recommend that people interested [Read More…]

Wilfrid Evill

I have just been to breakfast at Sotheby’s,who will be selling the amazing collection of British 20th C art put together by Wilfrid Evill and subsequently inherited by Honor Frost,who died recently.He is covered to some extent in my book as one of the most celebrated collectors of [Read More…]

Artists of Primrose Hill

Those who organise London walks might like to consider some trails around North London for students of 20th Century British (and even Irish) art.Yesterday,in the Spring sunshine,a short walk took me past Fitzroy Road,where Jack Yeats was born;past St Mark’s Crescent,where William Roberts lived for a long time [Read More…]

Stanley Spencer

I,together with about 200 other people, went to a Gresham Lecture earlier in the week at the Museum of London given by Lord Harries,formerly Bishop of Oxford.It was called “Understanding Faith through the eyes of Stanley Spencer”.The quality of the lecture isn’t what makes me write about it.The thought [Read More…]

The Irish Art Market–Meltdown?

Things are not looking too good for sellers of Irish art. Following the poor showing at Bonham’s in London on 9th February, when many lots failed to sell despite generally low estimates (at least by the standards of recent years), last night’s sale at Whyte’s in Dublin (click [Read More…]

Modern British Sculpture at the Royal Academy (Part 1)

The current exhibition at the Royal Academy has had extensive coverage, much of it mildly negative as to the choices made by the curators of the show, Dr Penelope Curtis and Keith Wilson. I have been to the show a number of times and I have also attended [Read More…]

Why History?

In 1976 I arrived from my country grammar school at the Historical shrine of Peterhouse. At the time, although the smallest of the colleges of Cambridge, it had the highest number of History dons. The study of History was taken seriously and the effect on me was to [Read More…]

Book Review: Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye

Burra was, in many ways, a typical artist of mid-20th century England, in the sense that his style was personal to him. It is difficult to categorise his work and he seems to have worked largely independently of the mainstream of 20th century art. The work also went [Read More…]

Graham Sutherland. Landscapes, War Scenes, Portraits 1924-1950; Bacon and Sutherland; Francis Bacon’s Studio

Bacon and Sutherland, published by Martin Hammer in 2005, began a very important part of the process of comparing and contrasting those two artists away from the grip of Bacon’s journalist proselytiser, the late David Sylvester. The same year, Hammer had brought out Graham Sutherland. Landscapes, War Scenes, [Read More…]

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20th Century
British and Irish Art

Art Commentator and Historian
Adrian Clark