British and Irish Art

Adrian Clark Art Commentator and Historian

Tag: John Craxton

  • Ghika and Craxton at the British Museum

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    There is a great treat in store in Room 5 at the BM: a curious show of the work of the Greek artist, Ghika, and of John Craxton. They knew each other in Greece for many years and they also mixed there with the cosmopolitan world of Paddy Leigh-Fermor and his wife, Joan ( nee…

  • Queer British Art at the Tate and Queer Saint

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    The new show opening at Tate Britain to mark 50 years since the relaxation of the laws relating to homosexuality folowing the Wolfenden Report inevitably brings to mind the great supporter of gay artists in the 1940s and 1950s, Peter Watson. Watson only really started to focus on British art when he was forced to…

  • John Craxton

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    There is a new exhibition opened at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge of Craxton’s work. I am not sure what has particularly led to the show being put on there, although it may have something to do with the enthusiastic new young Director, Tim Knox. In any event, it is a welcome airing for Craxton’s…

  • ‘John Craxton’ by Ian Collins

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    Farnham, 2011, £35, ISBN 978-1-84822-069-0Published in the British Art Journal, Volume XII No. 1, Summer 2011 This sumptuous book by John Craxton’s friend, Ian Collins, does great credit to both of them. Craxton was not always an easy person to engage with in the case of art critics and I think he would have approved…