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Winifred Nicholson: Unseen Works on Paper (Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton Road, SW3, till 11 January)
In our brand-obsessed era, artists who don't belong to movements tend to slip through the net, which is why, when you look up Winifred Nicholson in a dictionary of art, she's usually either missing or listed as an appendage to her husband Ben. If she had founded a movement on her theories about the colour spectrum, it would probably have been called `prismism', so it's as well she didn't.
The daughter of an amateur watercolourist and the granddaughter of a president...
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