Mark Lancaster obituary

British artist and stage designer who in the 1960s served as an emissary to London of New York paintingHad you been in the Gibbs Building at King’s College, Cambridge, one summer’s day in 1969, you might have come across a pair of English artists taking tea. The older was the Bloomsbury painter Duncan Grant, then 84. The younger, halfway through his tenure as the university’s first artist-in-residence, was Mark Lancaster, who has died aged 82.It was, variously, an unexpected pa