How Alfred Munnings got his commercial break
From mustard adverts to Art Nouveau-inspired posters, a show of early works by the horse painter and vehement anti-modernist is full of surprises
Why are so many public statues so disappointing?
The most successful public statues are more than mere three-dimensional versions of photographs plonked on plinths
Pulpit masters – the best of Arts and Crafts churches
Two welcome volumes survey how the movement made its mark on religious buildings across the UK
A Viking-inspired frieze by Walter Crane finds a new home in Rouen
The Musée des Beaux-Arts in the capital of Normandy, where the Vikings once ruled, is the perfect place for this painting of a wandering warrior
Harold Gilman cuts a dash
In praise of the Camden Town painter’s bold brushwork and daring draughtsmanship
The hidden gems of the Fitzwilliam Museum
The museum is showing off its collection of jewels and metalwork, from neo-gothic to art nouveau
Twilight on the South Downs with Edward Stott
The Sussex landscape was an enduring source of inspiration for Stott, which makes Eastbourne an ideal site for a major survey of his work
Epistolary exchanges with Edward Bawden
Peyton Skipwith remembers two decades of friendship and correspondence with the British artist
A first-class voyage through the golden age of ocean liners
Luxury, glamour and romance abound in the V&A’s celebration of the heyday of sea travel
‘There was always good and bad figurative art’
The figurative artists of the 1920s and ’30s should not be considered secondary to their abstract contemporaries – as numerous recent exhibitions have shown
C.F.A. Voysey’s designs reveal his ‘puritanical love of simplicity’
Voysey’s designs were as pioneering as his architecture
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