Tanya Harrod

Why do British galleries shun the humane, generous art of Ruskin Spear?

No one painted people nursing a drink in a back bar more tenderly than this working-class artist

‘Friday Night’, 1958, by Ruskin Spear, one of many proto-pop portraits of Ernest Marsh. Credit: De Beers Art Collection
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