frances spalding

  • Glory, turmoil and freedom, review of Postmodern: New Art in Britain 1945-1995, Barbican, London, Times Literary Supplement, 15 April 2022
  • Bull with a Paintbrush, review of John Richardson’s fourth volume of his A Life of Picasso: The Minotaur Years 1933–1943, Literary Review, April 2022
  • Candid Canvas, review of Tanya Harrod’s Humankind: Ruskin Spear – Class, Culture and Art in the 20th-Centry Britain, Literary Review, December 2021-January 2022
  • Pushing south, review of Bridget Riley, Working Drawings, Times Literary Supplement,3 December 2021
  • Painting, Living, party going, review of Nina Hamnett, Charleston, Sussex, Times Literary Supplement, 6 August 2021
  • Michael Ayrton, forgotten giant, Diary page reappraisal, Apollo, June 2021
  • Aesthete of Gordon Square, review of Clive Bell and the Making of Modernism, Literary Review, April 2021
  • Catalyst of the English avant-garde, review of Alfred Wallis Rediscovered, Kettle’s Yard, Times Literary Supplement, 20 November 2020
  • Magnetic Fields, article on Mark Hearld’s house, World of Interiors, October 1920
  • Lines of continuity , review of Bridget Riley: the Complete Prints 1962-2020, Apollo, October 2020
  • Planter’s Punch, review of John Nash: Artist and Countryman, in Apollo, February 2020
  • Book of the Week. Review of Self-Portrait, by Celia Paul, in Guardian, 23 November 2019.
  • Disruptive interventions, review of Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage in TLS, 13 September2019
  • Crystal symbol of a new faith, review of Bauhaus Goes West, by Alan Powers, in Times Literary Supplement, 5 April 2019
  • Fine Lines, review of Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art, edited by Susan Owens and Nicholas Tromans, in Literary Review, December 2018
  • Permanent Marker, review of Joseph Albers: Life and Work, by Charles Darwent, in Apollo, December 2018
  • Inheritors, progenitors, Samuel Courtauld’s astonishing collection, review of Courtauld Impressionists, exhibition at National Gallery, London, Times Literary Supplement, 7 Decmber 2018
  • Weathering the storm, review of Fighting On All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World , by Adrian Clark, Apollo, October 2018
  • The eyes have it, review of two exhibitions, Edward Bawden at Dulwich Picture Gallery and Enid Marx at House of Illustration, Times Literary Supplement, August 24 and 31 2018.
  • Review of Lynda Nead’s The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, Guardian, 6 January 2018
  • Period Portraits, review of Modigliani, Tate Modern, in Apollo, February 2018
  • Firing the Imagination, review of Leonard Rosoman by Tanya Harrod, in Literary Review, August 2017
  • Victor Pasmore: Between Risk and Equilibrium, catalogue essay for Victor Pasmore exhibition, held Marlborough Gallery, London, 21 June to 29 July, 2017.
  • Realism bites back, review of British Realism in the 1920s and 1930s, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Guardian, 30 June 2017
  • Holy Ground, Recognising the spirituality of the capital, review of Visualising a Sacred City: London, art and religion, edited by Ben Quash, Aaron Rosen, Chloe Reddaway, Times Literary Supplement, 9 June 2017
  • Review of David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Poet, Painter, by Thomas Dilworth, Apollo, June 2017
  • Beauty, emptiness, melancholia, review of Leonard Woolf’s ‘Growing’, Times Literary Supplement, 14 October 2016
  • Why the most civilised of men felt like a fraud, review of James Stourton’s biography of Kenneth Clark, Standpoint, November 2016
  • A Very British Modernist, review of the Paul Nash retrospective at Tate Britain, Standpoint, November 2016
  • Legacy of a Sir-Realist, review of James King’s biography of Roland Penrose, Standpoint, July/August 2016
  • Being private and going public, and the example of the Royal Collection, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, August 2016
  • Kunstmuseum Basel, New Building, Editorial. The Burlington Magazine, July 2016
  • The Promise of Tate Modern, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, June 2016
  • Photography and Museums, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, April 2016
  • British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, January 2016
  • Neil MacGregor and the British Museum, Editorial, The Burlington Magazine, December 2015
  • Six of the Best Portraits of Writers, The Times, 19 July 2014
  • Who Shot Virginia Woolf?, Daily Telegraph, 9 July 2014
  • Kasimir Malevich: the man who liberated painting, The Guardian, 4 July 2014
  • The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History, The Guardian, 27 March 2014
  • How Van Gogh’s Sunflowers came into bloom, The Guardian, 17 January 2014
  • Breakfast with Lucian Freud: A Portrait of the Artist by Geordie Grieg, The Guardian, 18 December 2013
  • Barbara Hepworth and the Hospital Drawings, The Burlington Magazine, January 2013
  • A portrait for modern times – the painter as thinker, review of Alex Danchev’s biography of Cézanne, The Independent, 27 October 2012
  • Monument to a family fortune and a heroine’s erased life, review of Jenny Uglow’s The Pinecone, The Independent, 6 October 2012
  • Contingency – Notes from the Field, The Art Bulletin, September, 2012
  • John Cecil Stephenson: Pioneer of Modernism, The Burlington Magazine, May 2012