2024 Berger Prize List
July 4 2024
Picture: Walpole Society
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Walpole Society, who have recently taken over the running of The Berger Prize, have published a list of nominees for the 2024 award.
Here's an abbreviated list which appears on their website:
Gwen John: Art and Life in London and Paris - Alicia Foster
William Gillies: Modernism and Nation in British Art - Andrew McPherson
Art Without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts, and a Changing World - Annebella Pollen
A Singular Man: A Documented Life of the Artist Frederick Sandys: 1829-1904 - Betty Elzea
Leonora Carrington: Revelation - Carlos Martín, Stefan van Raay, Tere Arcq and Naja Rasmussen
Claudette Johnson: Presence - Dorothy Price and Barnaby Wright (editors)
Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art - Duncan Macmillian
Borrowed Landscapes: China and Japan in the Historic Houses and Gardens of Britain and Ireland - Emile de Bruijn
John Carr of York: Collected Essays - Ivan Hall, edited by Kenneth Powell
Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance - Jake Subryan Richards and Victoria Avery (editors)
The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity - Kirsty Sinclair Dootson
Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle's Yard Artists - Laura Freeman
Modelling the Metropolis: The Architectural Model in Victorian London - Matthew Wells
Owen Jones and the V&A: Ornament for a Modern Age - Olivia Horsfall Turner
Shakespeare, Hogarth & Garrick: Plays, Painting and Performance- Robin Simon
Architecture in Britain and Ireland, 1530-1830 - Steven Brindle
Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c. 1813–1858 - Tom Young
Knick-Knackery: The Deards family & their luxury shops 1685–1785 - Vanessa Brett
The winner will be announced in November 2024.