Please join your Club for our first dinner of 2023, with Adrian Clark, who will speak about ‘An English Monuments Man at Work: Douglas Cooper in 1944/46.’
Adrian studied History at Peterhouse, Cambridge before going into the City as a corporate lawyer. He built up a collection of modern British art and started writing about the artists for The British Art Journal, and became fascinated by the mechanism whereby artists became successful or didn’t.
Adrian's first book was From War to Festival: The British and Irish Art Worlds 1945–1951 (2010), followed by Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson (2015) and Fighting on All Fronts: John Rothenstein in the Art World (2018). His next book, a biography of Douglas Cooper, is due to be published in 2023.