John Piper, Entrance to Fonthill, 1940 architecture established itself as a major

established itself as a major patron of contemporary art

Christina earned her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale University in 2016

The Hepworth Wakefield Garden

Bird examines the influence of the two world wars

playing for the MCC on occasion

John Piper, Entrance to Fonthill, 1940 architecture established itself as a majorIn the 1930s, Piper became the secretary of the Seven and Five Society, a group of abstract artists, which included Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Ben Nicholson. By the end of the decade, however, he had abandoned strict abstraction in favour of a more romantic portrayal of buildings and places. This work shows the ruins of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, which in 1796 William Beckford commissioned as his personal residence. It took five hundred