Caroline Maclean is finishing a PhD at Birkbeck on the Russian influence on British modernism.
From 1931 until the outbreak of war, Hampstead was the home of an emerging progressivism in art – not quite radical, a little domestic in fact, and also in thrall to the bolder experiments taking place...
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