Frances Spalding
Frances Spalding FRSL (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950)[1] is a British art historian, writer and a former editor of The Burlington Magazine.
Life
Frances Crabtree studied at the University of Nottingham and gained her PhD for a study of Roger Fry. She taught art history at Sheffield City Polytechnic (19781988) before becoming a freelance writer and curator. She returned to academic work to take up the post of professor of Art History at Newcastle University in 2000.[2]
Spalding specialises in 20th-century
British art, biography and cultural history and her work includes essays, criticism and reviews. She curated the 2003 exhibition "John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach" at Dulwich Picture Gallery in south London.[3]
She has also written a study of poet Stevie Smith and a biography of John and Myfanwy Piper. When reviewing John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, The Independent said of Spalding "At her scintillating best, she is both a brilliant encapsulator and shrewd summer-up; above all, an enthusiast and advocate whose wisdom makes you eager for her subject."[4]
Spalding was elected a Fellow of the
Birthday Honours 2005 for services to literature. She is a trustee of the Charleston Trust.[6]
Spalding became the Editor of The Burlington Magazine in September 2015, leaving in August 2016.[7]
In 1974, Crabtree married Julian Spalding; the couple divorced in 1991.[2]
Selected publications
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- Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians (1978)
- Whistler (1979)
- ISBN 0 2977 8162 6)[8]
- Roger Fry: Art and Life (1980)
- — (2016) [1983]. Vanessa Bell: Portrait of the Bloomsbury Artist. ISBN 978-1-78453-241-3.
- British Art since 1900 (1986)
- Stevie Smith: A Critical Biography (1988)
- 20th Century Painters and Sculptors: Dictionary of British Art (1990)
- Dance Till the Stars Come Down: A Biography of John Minton (1991)
- Virginia Woolf: Paper Darts: the Illustrated Letters (ed) (1991)
- Duncan Grant: A Biography (1997)
- The Tate: A History (1998)
- Ravilious in Public: A Guide to Works by the Artist in Public Collections (2002)
- John Piper in the 1930s: Abstraction on the Beach (2003)
- Gwen Raverat: Friends, Family and Affections (2001)
- The National Portrait GalleryInsights (2005)
- John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, ISBN 978-0-19-956761-4)[4]
Reviews
- Spalding, Frances (June 2011). "The contemporaneous past: reviving native traditions, in modern ways". Australian Book Review. 332: 16–17.
- Review of: Harris, Alexandra (2010). Romantic moderns: English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper. ISBN 9780500251713.
References
- ^ "Spalding, Prof. Frances". Who's Who 2013. A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing. 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2013. Oxford University Press, December 2012; online edition, November 2012.
- ^ ISBN 9781857431223.
- ^ "John Piper in the 1930s – Abstraction on the Beach". Studio International. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
- ^ a b Dunnett, Roderic (20 November 2009). "John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: lives in art, By Frances Spalding". The Independent. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
- ^ "Royal Society of Literature: All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.
- ^ "The Charleston Trust, registered charity no. 1107313". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
- ^ Malvern, Jack (7 October 2016). "Editor quits oldest art magazine after brush with staff". The Times. Retrieved 25 July 2019.
- ^ "Vanessa Bell by Frances Spalding". Goodreads. Retrieved 12 January 2016.
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