The Courtauld News

Read highlights from the latest issue of our annual magazine below as well as past issues and a special one-off publication Alumnae, which we produced in 2018 to celebrate the centenary of women gaining the right to vote in the UK.

Highlights

Munch, Meyer and My Family: Personal Recollections

An interview between alumna Professor Jane Geddes (MA 1974, PhD 1978), relative of Munch collector Rasmus Meyer, and alumnus Dr Barnaby Wright (BA 1999, MA 2000, PhD 2005), curator of The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Edvard Munch. Masterpieces from Ber...

Healing and Rebuilding Identity: Van Gogh’s Self-Portraiture

Courtauld alumna Dr Karen Serres, curator of The Morgan Stanley Exhibition: Van Gogh. Self-Portraits (3 February – 8 May 2022) at The Courtauld Gallery, reflects on how mental health is often discussed in relation to Vincent van Gogh....

The Mystery of Atlantic City: Helen Saunders’ Secret Painting

Rebecca Chipkin (PG Dip Conservation of Easel Paintings) and Helen Kohn (MA 2020) talk about their discovery of a long-lost Helen Saunders painting which had been concealed for decades beneath a painting by fellow Vorticist Wyndham Lewis....

Read the latest magazine

Issue 44

Past issues

Issue 43

Issue 42

Special edition: Alumnae

Issue 41

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