7 January 2021

The Artist ‘John Piper’- A Talk by Frances Spalding – Online

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The Artist ‘John Piper’- A Talk by Frances Spalding – Online

February 11 | 19:30 - 21:00

Frances Spalding is an art historian, critic and biographer with a specialist interest in twentieth-century British art and first established her reputation with Roger Fry: Art and Life.  She went on to write about the lives of other British artists including John and Myfanwy Piper. Her survey history, British Art since 1900, in the Thames & Hudson World of Art series, has been widely used in schools, colleges and universities. Frances acted as Editor of The Burlington Magazine, 2015-16, and is now is Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Art and in 2005 was made a CBE for Services to Literature. 

Other books currently available by Frances Spalding include Whistler (Phaidon Press), Duncan Grant (Pimlico), Dance till the Stars Come Down: John Minton (Lund Humphries), Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections (Harvill Press), Prunella Clough: regions unmapped (Lund Humphries) and The Bloomsbury Group (in the National Portrait Gallery’s “Insight” series), and John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art (Oxford University Press). 

Join Frances as she examines the life of the artist John Piper.

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