Self-Portrait as a Young Man
Bodleian Library (Inbooks), $59.95 hb, 296 pp, 9781851242825
Art
From somewhere to nowhere
by Patrick McCaughey •
Roy Strong was appointed director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in 1967 at the age of thirty-two. Today it would be astonishing to head one of the United Kingdom’s national collections at that age; five decades ago it was outrageous. Only Kenneth Clark at thirty was younger when he became director of the National Gallery. Strong’s ascent to the NPG has stayed in his mind as the fulcrum of his professional life.
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