William Packer
Noticing Beauty
A Picture of Britain
(Tate Britain until 4 September) order from our bookshop
A Picture of Britain
By David Dimbleby, with contributions from David Blayney Brown, Richard Humphreys and Christine Riding
(Tate Publishing 224pp £19.99) order from our bookshop
Graham Sutherland
(Dulwich Picture Gallery until 25 September; Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, 8 October – 11 December) order from our bookshop
A Picture of Britain must have seemed like a good idea at the time: the pick of three hundred years’ worth of landscape painting in Britain; a tie-in with a major series of television programmes on the BBC; a celebrity presenter, the elder Dimbleby no less, to lend it all his genial authority. Could it go wrong? Yes, it could, and did.
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