Robert Dell: March – December 1903
Charles Holmes and Robert Dell: January 1904 – October 1906
Charles Holmes: October 1906 – September 1909
Harold Child Assistant Editor with the advice of the Consultative Committee: October and November 1909
Roger Fry and Lionel Cust: December 1909 – December 1913
Roger Fry, Lionel Cust and More Adey: January 1914 – May 1919
Charles Hope-Johnstone: July 1919 – December 1920
Robert Tatlock: Early 1921–1933
Herbert Read: 1933–39
Albert Sewter: 1939–40
Tancred Borenius: 1940–44
Edith Hoffmann (Assistant Editor who ran the Magazine with advice from Read): 1944–45
Ellis Waterhouse acting editor (The Magazine was officially without an editor): 1945–47
Benedict Nicolson: 1947 – July 1978
Editorial Board of Directors: August – October 1978
Terence Hodgkinson: November 1978 – August 1981
Neil MacGregor: September 1981–February 1987
Caroline Elam: March 1987 – July 2002
Andrew Hopkins: August 2002 – February 2003
Richard Shone: March 2003 – present