Biography
Mark Glazebrook (b. Cheshire, UK 1936 - d. 2009) was briefly a student at the Slade School of Fine Art, taught art history in Maidstone and later worked in the visual arts department of the Arts Council, then under the leadership of Gabriel White. He wrote art criticism for the London Magazine, during the 1960s, and with his university friends Joseph Studholme, Paul Cornwall-Jones and Michael Deakin, helped launch Editions Alecto Ltd, the pioneering publishers of contemporary artists' prints. They published David Hockney's first suite of 16 etchings, A Rake's Progress - an edition of which was bequeathed through the Contemporary Art Society to The Whitworth, University of Manchester. went on to produce and sell multiples by many of the leading figures in the pop movement on both in the UK and USA, including Richard Hamilton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Patrick Caulfield, Jim Dine and Ed Ruscha. He succeeded Bryan Robertson in becoming Director of Whitechapel Art Gallery (1969–72) where he put on Donald Judd's first London show and the first major retrospective of Hockney's work. However, he left after 3 years to become head of the Modern British department at Colnaghi's. In 1975 he was appointed lecturer in art history at San José state University in California but returned to London in 1979 and rejoined Alecto before eventually opening his own premises, the Albemarle Gallery in 1986, which had failed by 1993. He continued to curate exhibitions and write art reviews for The Spectator until he died.