William Graham Anthony, an artist’s artist known for his satirical paintings and drawings, died tragically on December 24, 2022 at the age of 88. His death was caused by complications after rushing into a fire that engulfed his ninth-floor apartment at Westbeth Artists Housing in New York City. It is likely, friends agree, that he rushed into the blazing apartment to save his artwork, which lined the walls of the studio he shared with his wife Norma (née Neuman) for forty years.
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It was just a small thing, really. “The finest art of the world for the people of the East End” - that was the ambition of the first trustees of the Whitechapel Gallery, which rose from nothing on Whitechapel High Street to plans by the architect Charles Harrison Townsend (one of the few English masters of Art Nouveau, responsible too for the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill and the Bishopsgate Institute) to open in 1901, exactly 120 years ago today.
Purpose-built and born out of a philanthropic desire to bring art to the working man (it helped that, unlike most national museums, it had electric light and could therefore stay open late enough for said working man to actually visit), it was perfectly placed in this melting pot of an area, to bring art to people who might otherwise never have the chance to see it, but also to show art that any peopl