Frances Spalding

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Frances Spalding CBE, FRSL (née Crabtree, born 16 July 1950[1]) is a British art historian and writer.

She studied at Nottingham University and gained her PhD for a study of Roger Fry. She taught art history at Sheffield City Polytechnic 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.

She specializes in 20th-century British art, biography and cultural history and her work includes 15 major books, 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.[2]

She has also written a study of poet Stevie Smith and of John and Myfanwy Piper.

She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 [3] She was awarded an Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours 2005 for services to literature.

She is a trustee of the Charleston Trust.[4]

In 1974 she married Julian Spalding.

Bibliography

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  • Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians (1978)
  • Whistler (1979)
  • Roger Fry: Art and Life (1980)
  • Vanessa Bell (1983)
  • 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 (2004)
  • The Bloomsbury Group, National Portrait Gallery Insights (2005)
  • John Piper, Myfanwy Piper: Lives in Art, Oxford University Press (2009, ISBN 978-0-19-956761-4)

Reviews

  • Spalding, Frances (June 2011). "The contemporaneous past : reviving native traditions, in modern ways". Australian Book Review 332: 16–17. 
    • Review of: Harris, Alexandra. Romantic moderns : English writers, artists and the imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper. Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500251713. 

References

  1. ↑ {SPALDING, Prof. Frances’, Who's Who 2013, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2013; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012 ; online edn, Nov 2012 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U35729, accessed 12 Jan 2013]
  2. ↑ Studio International
  3. ↑ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Retrieved 10 August 2010. 
  4. ↑ The Charleston Trust, Registered Charity no. 1107313 at the Charity Commission

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