Dennis Farr

Dennis Larry Ashwell Farr (2 April 1929 – 6 December 2006) was a British art historian and curator. Through his writings and the exhibitions he organised in his positions as director of City Museums and Art Gallery in Birmingham (1969–1980) and subsequently as director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries (1980–93), Farr established a reputation as a champion of 20th century British art.

Education Dennis Farr was educated at Luton Grammar School and studied for his BA at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University, from 1947 to 1950.

He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1991.

Selected works William Etty (1958), Routledge & Kegan Paul

(With Chamot, Mary and Butlin, Martin) Catalogue of the Modern British School Collection (1964), Oldbourne Press, London (2 volumes)

British Sculpture Since 1945 (1965), Tate, London

English Art, 1870-1940 (1978), Oxford University Press

(With Eva Chadwick) Lynn Chadwick, sculptor: with a complete illustrated catalogue, 1947-2003 (1991), Clarendon Press, Oxford

Farr published an autobiographical article "in response to a suggestion from the Editor" in The Burlington Magazine in 2005, titled "A student at the Courtauld Institute".