Place of birth

East Shefford, Berkshire, England

Place of death

London

About

Clive Bell was an art critic and writer and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group. He reviewed regularly for the New Statesman. Mulk Raj Anand remembers Bell in his Conversations in Bloomsbury (1981).

Beechey, James, ‘Bell, (Arthur) Clive Heward (1881–1964)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2005) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30681]

Image credit

Clive Bell by Roger Fry, oil on canvas, circa 1924, NPG 4967

© National Portrait Gallery, London, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Citation: ‘Clive Bell’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain-demo.rit.bris.ac.uk/people/clive-bell/. Accessed: 5 July 2025.

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