William Roberts was a key player in the development of Cubism in England before the First World War and the longest surviving member of Wyndham Lewis．Vorticist movement．When he died in 1980 however,he was unfairly thought of as an artist whose avant。garde heyday beggared his subsequent ca reer．William Roberts：An English Cubist looks for the first time at the whole range of Roberts’work and asserts his true status as a major contributor to the art of the twentieth century．

William Roberts was a key player in the development of Cubism in England before the First World War and the longest surviving member of Wyndham Lewis．Vorticist movement．When he died in 1980 however,he was unfairly thought of as an artist whose avant。garde heyday beggared his subsequent ca reer．William Roberts：An English Cubist looks for the first time at the whole range of Roberts’work and asserts his true status as a major contributor to the art of the twentieth century．

Roberts was unique in as much as he was the only English artist of his generation who succeeded in manufacturing a mature style in which was preserved someth i ng of the aesthetic of Cubism．Moreover,during the course of a long career he employed this style to describe a vast array of mostly metropolitan subject—matter and in doing so constructed an unparalleled panorama of modern life in England．His range was immense．As an official war artist for both the Canadians and British，Roberts produced two of the most meaningful images of the First World War．Adept at portraiture，he not only painted an extraordinarylifelong series of himself and his family,but tackled a number of the most famous personalities of his age including Maynard Keynes and TE．Lawrence．No other twentieth century British artist focused on the eccentricities of London l ife with such perspicacity a nd wit．

William Roberts．life was one of artistic and practica I struggle not helped by an intra nsigentand latterly hermetic personality．Widely illustratedwith reproductions of his work，WiIliam Roberts：An English Cubist offers a fuller understanding of the life and work of this major British artist．

1．Foreword—A Collector’S Note

2．Preface

3．Chapter One—Early Life

4．Chapter Two—Into the Vortex

5．Chapter Three—At the Front

6．Chapter Four——Back to Bohemia

7．Chapter Five——Into the West End

8．Chapter Six—Out of Town

9．Chapter Seven—Back in the Vortex

10．Chapter Eight—Established at Last

11．Chapter Nine—Life after Bobby

12．Epilogue

13．Chronology

14．PubliC Collections

15．Selected Exhibitions

16．Bibliography

17．Index