Stephen Farthing

Stephen Farthing is an artist and art historian, whose work has been exhibited all around the world. He is an elected member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford, where he taught at the Ruskin School of Art between 1989 and 2000. In 2000, Farthing became the Executive Director of The New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, until he returned to the UK in 2004 to be a researcher at the London University of the Arts. Farthing has an enduring interest in the early history of painting and drawing, modernism and the relationship between the drawn and the written – which also plays a central role in his own recent paintings. He has published several books about art and how to look at art, such as An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Modern Art (2000), 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (2006), On Colour (2018) and Leonardo da Vinci: Under the Skin (2018).