REAL AND THE ROMANTIC: ENGLISH ART BETWEEN TWO WORLD WARS

There has been an enormous surge of interest in English art of the interwar years. Work by artists like Stanley Spencer and Eric Ravilious has soared in popularity while new critical attention has been paid to others, often women, who were previously overlooked, such as Winifred Knights and Evelyn Dunbar. A fresh, nuanced look at a rich and diverse period in English art in which modernism, abstraction, surrealism and a revival of native traditions jostled under the legacy of one war and the shadows of the next.