Enfilade

From The Walpole Society:

The 2026 Berger Prize longlist was announced on 8 July at the Warburg Institute, by Dr Jonny Yarker, Chair of the Berger Prize judging panel. In addition, Laura Freeman, Chief Art Critic at The Times, and shortlisted author for the 2024 Berger Prize for her book Ways of Life: Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard Artists, delivered a talk, “Doorstepping: House Museums and Shaking Hands with the Past.”

Here are the fifteen titles, with the winning title scheduled to be announced on December 3.

• Kate Anderson, Catriona Murray, Jemma Field, Anna Groundwater, Karen Hearn, and Liz Louis, Art & Court of James VI & I (National Galleries Scotland).

• Christine Casey, Architecture and Artifice: The Crafted Surface in Eighteenth-Century Building Practice (Paul Mellon Centre).

• Apurba Chatterjee, An Empire of Images: Visual Culture and the British in India (Cambridge University Press).

• Adrian Clark and Richard Calvocoressi, Irascible: The Combative Life of Douglas Cooper, Collector and Friend of Picasso (Yale University Press).

• Amy Concannon, Turner and Constable: Rivals and Originals (Tate Publishing).

• Alexis Goodin et al, A Room of Her Own: Women Artist Activists in Britain, 1875–1945 (Clark Art Institute).

• John Hilary, Magnates and Masterpieces: The German-Jewish Collectors of Edwardian Britain (Yale University Press).

• Peter Humfrey, Regency Collectors: Buying and Displaying Old Masters in Early Nineteenth-Century England (Paul Holberton Publishing).

• James King, ‘Our Little Gang’: The Lives of the Vorticists (Reaktion Books).

• Catherine Lampert and Toby Treves, Lucian Freud: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings (Modern Art Press).

• Jonathan Marsden, European Sculpture in the Collection of His Majesty the King (Modern Art Press).

• Stephanie O’Rourke, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850 (University of Chicago Press).

• Sam Smiles, Turner and the Slave Trade (Paul Mellon Centre).

• Anne Stutchbury, Tessa Wild, Stephen Ponder, and Alice Strickland, Standen: Philip Webb, Morris & Co., and the Creation of an Arts and Crafts Home (Yale University Press).

• Ian Warrell, with a contribution by Gillian Forrester, Turner (Yale Center for British Art).