William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017

William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017

WINNER: Winifred Knights (1899-1947) by Sacha Llewellyn

Published by Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery
ISBN 978-1-848221772 (HB) / ISBN 978-1-898519348 (PB)

‘There could not be a better example of how to re-establish a reputation that will open up a whole group of neglected artists for future study and a tradition that has been “written out”‘. ‘ Extraordinary research from scratch.’

Every year the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History is awarded to a scholarly publication that demonstrates outstanding achievement in the field of British Art History. Awarded jointly by The British Art Journal and the Berger Collection Educational Trust, the Berger prize is recognized as the most prestigious award in its field.

William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017 Short List

Elizabeth Einberg 

William Hogarth: A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings

Yale University Press 

for The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

ISBN 9780300221749

Clare Browne, Glyn Davies and MA Michael, eds, 

with the assistance of Michaela Zöschg

English Medieval Embroidery: Opus Anglicanum

Yale University Press 

in association with The Victoria & Albert Museum

ISBN 978-0-300222005

James Stourton

Kenneth Clark: Life, Art & Civilisation

William Collins

ISBN 978-0-007493418

Susan Rather

The American School: Artists and Status in the Late Colonial 

and Early National Era

Yale University Press for the Paul Mellon Centre

ISBN 978-0-300214611

Sacha Llewellyn

Winifred Knights 1899-1947

Lund Humphries in association with Dulwich Picture Gallery

ISBN 978-1-848221772 (HB) 978-1-898519348 (PB)

David Fraser Jenkins and Hugh Fowler Wright 

The Art of John Piper

Co-published by Unicorn and Portland Gallery

ISBN 978-1-910787052