The poet was also well known as a witty and acerbic critic of art; his focus here are Delacroix and Ingres in particular, and the pursuit of the ideal. A new addition to the colourful 'Exphr... read more
Definitive biography of this determinedly figurative painter whose 20th century life, through suffrage to feminism, won her a major retrospective at the Whitney, New York in 1974.