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Kenneth Clark

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization by James Stourton

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April 2017, no. 390
Patrick McCaughey reviews 'Kenneth Clark: Life, Art and Civilization' by James Stourton

Kenneth Clark had a life like no other art historian or critic, gallery director, arts administrator, patron, collector, or presenter on television. Whatever he touched, he left a sheen of brilliance. He was handsome, charming, and debonair. And he was rich, spending his last three decades as the lord of Saltwood Castle. His father, the raffish and boozy Kenneth McK ...

My Dear BB: The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Kenneth Clark, 1925–1959 edited by Robert Cumming

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September 2015, no. 374
Patrick McCaughey reviews 'My Dear BB' edited by Robert Cumming

By some accounts, it was love at first sight. When Kenneth Clark, recently graduated with a 2A from Oxford, lunched with Bernard Berenson at I Tatti in September 1925, BB impulsively invited him to collaborate on the revised edition of his chef d’oeuvre: The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, C ...