Marion Whybrow obituary

Art historian whose writing illuminated the story of the St Ives art colonyMarion Whybrow, who has died aged 83, was a knowledgable and sensitive writer of art history, biography, plays and fiction, whose best-known work, St Ives 1883-1993, Portrait of an Art Colony (1994), was the most comprehensive book of its kind. Her detailed, original research, empathy with the artists she wrote about and insight illuminated the subject. Her approach was both methodical and imaginative: she knew that this