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Magazine: 2 August 2014
Andrew Lambirth

Why did it take so long to recognise the worth of British folk art?

The Tate’s new show of Brobdingnagian shop signs, evocative stitchery, glorious figureheads from ships and collaged pictures is both timely and hideously overdue

From magazine issue: 2 August 2014
‘Goose Woman’, c.1840, by George Smart [Tunbridge Wells Museum and Art Gallery]
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‘Harrow Hill 1972 III’ by Keith Vaughan
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