A new book celebrates Jim Ede, the patron whose museum-home is a chapel to 20th-century British art – in particular that generation who were driven to search for meaning after the first world war
. Today it’s known for its adjoining contemporary exhibition space, but next time you go, do yourself a favour and visit Ede’s museum-home, which is still preserved as the livable, relaxed yet artistically sublime little world it was when he gave it to Cambridge University in 1966.
Laura Freeman, art critic of The Times, tells me how she discovered it in her first week at university: “I found freshers’ week difficult, especially as I don’t drink.” Instead, the ethereal magic of the quiet, art-filled house across the road from her college entranced her. Now she has written the first proper biography of Ede and his collection, delving into one of the strangest stories in British art.
The Great War haunts its pastoral calm. Jones, like Ede, survived the western front, and became one of its poets, transfiguring his memories of the Battle of the Somme in his epic
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