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Frances Spalding
Oils and Water
Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of Its Artists
By Lily Le Brun
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Richard Canning
Modern Old Master
Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit
By Simon Martin
Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 23 October
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Frances Spalding
Candid Canvas
Humankind: Ruskin Spear – Class, Culture and Art in 20th-Century Britain
By Tanya Harrod
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November 2021 Issue
Norma Clarke
Printmakers in Motion
Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
By Jenny Uglow
May 2021 Issue
Tanya Harrod
She Carved Her Own Way
Barbara Hepworth: Art & Life
By Eleanor Clayton
October 2020 Issue
Michael Prodger
Call of the Wild
Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape
By Susan Owens
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June 2020 Issue
Andrew Lambirth
A Dealer & A Dandy
Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art
By Gill Hedley
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December 2019 Issue
Frances Spalding
Widening the Frame
Voyaging Out: British Women Artists from Suffrage to the Sixties
By Carolyn Trant
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November 2019 Issue
Susan Owens
Out of the Shadows
Pre-Raphaelite Sisters
By Jan Marsh, with contributions by Peter Funnell, Charlotte Gere, Pamela Gerrish Nunn & Alison Smith
May 1995 Issue
Jessica Mann
Paving the Way in a Man’s World
Barbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms
By Sally Festing
November 2018 Issue
Tanya Harrod
Modernists & Marionettes
William Simmonds: The Silent Heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement
By Jessica Douglas-Home
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March 1996 Issue
Kevin MacDonald
The Full Horror of Ordinary People
The World According to Mike Leigh
By Michael Coveney
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May 2018 Issue
Michael Peppiatt
Back to School
Modernists & Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney & the London Painters
By Martin Gayford
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March 2018 Issue
David Gelber
Exhibition of Power
Charles I: King and Collector
By Desmond Shawe-Taylor & Per Rumberg (edd)
February 2017 Issue
Ariane Bankes
An Artist for All Seasons
The Art of John Piper
By David Fraser Jenkins & Hugh Fowler-Wright
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February 2017 Issue
Robin Simon
A Painter’s Progress
William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings
By Elizabeth Einberg
July 2016 Issue
Kevin Jackson
Arise, Sir Realist
Roland Penrose: The Life of a Surrealist
By James King
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November 1979 Issue
Janet Daley
The Flat-Footed Nihilism of Contemporary British Art
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Matthew Sturgis
Lines of Beauty
Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonné
By Linda Gertner Zatlin
April 2016 Issue
Tim Hilton
A Painter’s Progress
Young Mr Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775–1815
By Eric Shanes
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