‘An Englishman Looks at Chinese Painting’, Architectural Review, Vol. CII, July 1947, pp.29–33
‘Ruskin at Oxford: An Inaugural Lecture’, delivered at the University of Oxford, 14 November 1946, Oxford 1947
‘The Warburg Institute’, broadcast 13 June 1948 on the BBC Third Programme, reprinted in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 1947–48
‘The Idea of a Great Gallery’, lecture delivered at the University of Melbourne, 27 January 1949
Introduction to John Ruskin’s Praeterita, London 1949
‘The Limits of Classicism’, The Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture, 7 May 1949 (reprinted in Cambridge Review)
‘Apologia of an Art Historian’, the inaugural address on the occasion of his election as President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh, 15 November 1950
Clark on the Masolino/Masaccio question after the acquisition of two early Quattrocento pictures, Burlington Magazine, November 1951, pp.339–47
Obituary of Sir Eric Maclagan of the V&A, Burlington Magazine, November 1951, p.358
‘Apologia of an Art Historian’, University of Edinburgh Journal, Summer 1951, pp.232–9
‘Turner, RA, 1775–1851: A selection of twenty-four oil paintings from the Tate Gallery’, London 1952
‘The Relations of Photography and Painting’, Photographic Journal, May 1954, pp.125–42
‘Art and Photography’, The Penrose Annual, 1955, pp.65–9 (This is KC’s reprinted article that originally appeared as ‘The Relations of Photography and Painting’ in 1954 in the Photographic Journal. It was also reprinted in Aperture, Vol. III, No. 1, 1954)
‘Andrea Mantegna: The Fred Cook Memorial Lecture’, delivered to the Royal Society of Arts, 26 March 1958. In the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, Vol. CVI, No. 5025, August 1958, pp.663–80
‘The Romantic Movement’, Introduction to Arts Council exhibition, 1959
‘Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits’, delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain’s Weekly Evening Meeting, Friday 20 October 1961. In Proceedings of the Royal Institution, Vol. XXXIX, No. 177, 1962, pp.145–71
‘Motives’, in Millard Meiss (ed.), Problems of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Studies in Western Art, Acts of the 20th International Congress of the History of Art, Vol. IV, Princeton 1963, pp.189–205
Introduction to Douglas Cooper (ed.), Great Private Collections, London 1965
‘The Value of Art in an Expanding World’, Hudson Review, Vol. XIX, No. 1, Spring 1966, pp.11–23
‘A Failure of Nerve: Italian Painting 1520–1535’, H.R. Bickley Memorial Lecture, Oxford 1967
‘The Other Side of the Alde’, Litton Cheney 1968 (first published in Tribute to Benjamin Britten on His Fiftieth Birthday, London 1963)
‘Sir Kenneth Clark Talks to Joan Bakewell About the Civilisation Series’, The Listener, No. 81, 17 April 1969, pp.532–3
‘Mandarin English’, The Giff Edmonds Memorial Lecture, 1970
‘Ad Portas’, lecture given at Winchester College, 9 May 1970, in The Wykehamist, No. 1189, 3 June 1970, pp.473–4
‘The Image of Christ: Painting and Sculpture’, lecture given in Canterbury Cathedral, 4 November 1970
‘The Artist Grows Old’, The Rede Lecture 1970, Cambridge 1972
‘In Praise of Henry Moore’, Sunday Times, 30 July 1978
‘What is a Masterpiece?’, The Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture, London 1979
‘Young Michelangelo’, in J.H. Plumb (ed.), The Italian Renaissance, Boston 1989
‘A Note on Leonardo da Vinci’, Life and Letters, Vol. II, No. 9, pp.122–32
‘Aesthete’s Progress’, an autobiographical manuscript in the John Murray Archive, London
Manuscript Libraries and Archives Consulted
USA: New York Public Library; Pierpont Morgan Library, NY (Edith Sitwell); Getty Museum and Library; Rice University; Woodson Research Center (Julian Huxley); Delon Archive, New Jersey; University of Tulsa (Cyril Connolly); Washington State University; Library of Congress, Washington DC; Houghton Library, Harvard; Washington University, St Louis; Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale (Edith Wharton); Yale University Library (Walter Lippmann); Humanities Research Center, University of Texas; Princeton University Library Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections (Raymond Mortimer); Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington (Edith Wharton). Not in the US but a part of Harvard, the Berenson Archive at I Tatti near Florence. Finally the Victoria University Library in Toronto, Canada (Roger Fry).
UK: British Library National Sound Archive; Royal Archives, Windsor; King’s College, Cambridge; Benjamin Britten Estate, Aldeburgh; Orford Museum; National Gallery, London; Tate Britain Clark Archive; Warburg Institute, London; Design Council Archive, Brighton; National Archive, Kew (Ministry of Information); Winchester College; Henry Moore Foundation, Perry Green; The National Theatre Archive; Bournemouth University (ITA); Glasgow University Library (MacColl); National Library of Scotland (Crawford); John Murray Archive, London; National Museum of Wales (Sutherland); Paisley Central Library. Oxford University holds several libraries with Clark material: All Souls, Ashmolean Museum, Balliol College, Bodleian Library, Trinity College, and Wadham College.
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Childhood home: Sudbourne Hall, Suffolk, built by James Wyatt for the first Marquess of Hertford in 1784 and remodelled for Clark’s father.
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Clark’s raffish and boozy father.
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Clark enjoying solitude at Iken, Suffolk, on the Alde estuary.
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Lam, the Scottish governess whose affection and companionship ‘saved’ the young Clark.
Clark and his mother in a rare moment of demonstrative affection on one of the family yachts.
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Maurice Bowra, Warden of Wadham College. The great disinhibitor.
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Clark’s suffocating mentor, C.F. Bell, keeper of the Fine Art Department at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
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Oxford, 1925: the Gryphon Club. Clark is middle row, right. His close friend Bobby Longden, the future headmaster of Wellington College, is two to his right.
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Bernard Berenson with his mistress, I Tatti’s librarian Nicky Mariano. Clark described her as ‘one of the most universally beloved people in the world’.
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The young director of the National Gallery.
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Jane, the love of Clark’s life. They married in 1927.
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25 March 1934. Clark bidding farewell to King George V and Queen Mary after they had come to recruit him as Surveyor of the King’s Pictures – the first visit by a monarch to the National Gallery.
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‘Bellers’ – Bellevue, on Philip Sassoon’s Port Lympne estate – where the Clark children were happiest.
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Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Henry Moore – Clark the patron with his artists.
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John Piper at his Chiltern farmhouse, Fawley Bottom, named ‘Fawley Bum’ by John Betjeman.
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Clark (right) enjoys a bibulous train journey to Leeds with Henry Moore, Myfanwy Piper and Colin Anderson.
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Clark’s son Alan and daughter Colette, with Tor. Photograph by Douglas Glass.
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Upton, Gloucestershire, where Jane was left with the children during the war.
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Van Dyck stuck under a bridge, heading for the Manod Caves, where the pictures from the National Gallery would be stored for the duration of the war.
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Hunger for culture: queues for a wartime concert at the National Gallery.
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‘He kept time with them beautifully’: Clark conducting Leopold Mozart’s Toy Symphony at a National Gallery concert on N
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Clark and Jane at home at Upper Terrace House, Hampstead.
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Seurat, Cézanne and Clark’s ‘blond bombshell’ Renoir in the sitting room at Upper Terrace.
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Life imitating Art: Colin Anderson, a recumbent figure, while Henry Moore looks on from the left. Clark is on the right, next to Jane and their son Colin.
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Clark’s muse and confidante, Janet Stone.
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Clark at the launch of Independent Television on 22 September 1955 at the Guildhall, the first time he was seen by millions.
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King of his castle: Clark at Saltwood, Kent.
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Clark preferred to write on his knee in the study at Saltwood.
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Clark standing before Notre Dame to deliver the opening words of the first programme of Civilisation.
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Clark in the great hall at Saltwood.
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Clark with his second wife Nolwen at the Garden House, Saltwood.
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Nolwen’s château, Parfondeval, Normandy.
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November 1974. Clark filming In the Beginning in Egypt.
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