David Anfam

David Anthony Neil Anfam (12 May 1955 – 21 August 2024) was an English art historian, author and curator, best known for his voluminous writings on abstract expressionism.

[4] His father was a major fan of American culture, so Anfam was "brought up on a diet of Frank Sinatra, jazz, film noir, Hemingway, silk suits, Betty Crocker cake mix and big-finned cars" during his childhood.

[6] Critic John Russell called the volume, which took ten years to research and compile, as "a book for all seasons".

[10] Anfam wrote catalogue essays for many artists, including Wayne Thiebaud, Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, Philip Guston, Edward Hopper, Franz Kline, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Jackson Pollock, Larry Poons, Richard Pousette-Dart, Robert Rauschenberg and Ad Reinhardt.

[12] In 2016 he co-curated (with Edith Devaney) the survey exhibition Abstract Expressionism at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.