Richard Dorment

Richard Dorment is the art critic of the Daily Telegraph. (April 2008)

From the Review

April 3, 2008: Lovable in Parts

Jasper Johns: Gray an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, November 3, 2007–January 6, 2008, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 5–May 4, 2008.
Catalog of the exhibition by James Rondeau and Douglas Druick, with contributions by Mark Pascale, Richard Shiff, Barbara Rose, Kelly Keegan, and Kristin Lister, and an interview with the artist by Nan Rosenthal

March 1, 2007: Power Portraits

Sir Thomas Lawrence by Michael Levey

December 21, 2006: Journey from 'Nebraska'

Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective Catalog of the exhibition by Gary Garrels

Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective

December 1, 2005: What Art Does

The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa by Michael Kimmelman

September 22, 2005: On Hanging

Art and the Power of Placement by Victoria Newhouse

November 4, 2004: The Artistic Bloke

William Nicholson by Sanford Schwartz

December 18, 2003: The Greatest

Turner by James Hamilton

Turner's Britain Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton

Turner: The Late Seascapes Catalog of the exhibition by James Hamilton

Turner and Venice Catalog of the exhibition by Ian Warrell

"The Sun Rising Through Vapour": Turner's Early Seascapes Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Spencer-Longhurst

October 10, 2002: In the Garment District

Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789 by Aileen Ribeiro

Fabric of Vision: Dress and Drapery in Painting by Anne Hollander

June 13, 2002: The Great Room of Art

Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, 1780–1836 edited by David H. Solkin

April 13, 2000: Gorky's Panels (letter)

March 9, 2000: Genius in Exile

From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky by Matthew Spender

Black Angel: The Life of Arshile Gorky by Nouritza Matossian

September 23, 1999: His Son the Art Dealer

Matisse: Father & Son by John Russell

June 10, 1999: Contretemps at Prince's Gate

The Peacock Room: A Cultural Biography by Linda Merrill

January 14, 1999: The Triumph of Matisse

The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse, The Early Years, 1869-1908 by Hilary Spurling

May 23, 1996: Half-Full Use (letter)

November 30, 1995: The Perfectionist

William Morris: A Life for Our Time by Fiona MacCarthy

The Collected Letters of William Morris edited by Norman Kelvin

Vol. I, 1848–1880

Vol. II, Part A, 1881–1884

Vol. II, Part B, 1885–1888

Vols. III and IV forthcoming

October 7, 1993: Reading Hogarth (letter)

August 12, 1993: An Exchange on Hogarth

May 27, 1993: The Genius of Gin Lane

Hogarth: Volume 1: The 'Modern Moral Subject,' 1697–1732 by Ronald Paulson

Hogarth: Volume 2: High Art and Low, 1732–1750 by Ronald Paulson

Hogarth: Volume 3: Art and Politics, 1750–1764 by Ronald Paulson

November 19, 1992: Painting in the Dark

Magritte an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May 21–August 2;. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 9–November 22;. The Menil Collection, Houston, December 15, 1992–February 21, 1993;. The Art Institute, Chicago, March 16–May 30, 1993

Magritte: The Silence of the World by David Sylvester

Magritte catalog of the exhibition by Sarah Whitfield

René Magritte: Catalogue Raisonné; Vol I: Oil Paintings 1916–1930 by David Sylvester, by Sarah Whitfield, edited by David Sylvester

December 19, 1991: Lautrec's Bitter Theater

The Letters of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec edited by Herbert D. Schimmel, Introduction by Gale B. Murray

Toulouse-Lautrec 1991–January 19, 1992 Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, February 21–June 1, 1992 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, October 10,

Toulouse-Lautrec Yale University Press catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, by Claire Frèches-Thory, by Anne Roquebert, by Danièle Devynck

Toulouse-Lautrec: The Formative Years, 1878–1891 by Gale B. Murray

Nightlife of Paris: The Art of Toulouse Lautrec by Patrick O'Connor

October 24, 1991: Venice Out of Season

The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent by Hugh Honour, by John Fleming

James Abbott McNeill Whistler: A Life by Gordon Flemíng

December 6, 1990: 'The Art of Exclusion' (letter)

September 27, 1990: Painting the Unpaintable

Facing History: The Black Image in American Art, 1710–1940 by Guy C. McElroy, with an essay by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

The Art of Exclusion: Representing Blacks in the Nineteenth Century by Albert Boime

February 15, 1990: Working Girl

Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun translated by Lionel Strachey, with an introduction by John Russell

The Memoirs of Elisabeth Vigée-Le Brun translated by Siân Evans

Books by Richard Dorment

James Mcneill Whistler (1995)
British Painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: From the Seventeenth Through the Nineteenth Century (1986)
Alfred Gilbert (1985)