Morris Gallery
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Morris Gallery
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/99
Related People: Henry Moore(Sender); Ben Nicholson(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)
Creator(s): Moore, Henry (1898-1986); Nicholson, Ben (1894-1982)
Date(s): 8 Oct 1955 - 3 Sep 1959
Size and medium: 11 items
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692651
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains correspondence relating to the Morris Gallery.
Correspondence includes 5 signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Morris Weisenthal, owner of the Morris Gallery, dated 8 Oct 1955 – 10 Aug 1959, 5ff. The letters discuss a poetry contribution by Read to the Gallery’s upcoming publication of a portfolio of etchings illustrating the work of various contemporary poets, and the possibility of Henry Moore and later Ben Nicholson contributing the etching that will accompany Read’s poem.
The file also includes a signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Henry Moore, dated 27 Jun 1956, in which Moore discusses the development of his etching which he is not happy with, 1f, and a manuscript letter to Herbert Read from Ben Nicholson, dated 17 Oct 1956, agreeing to provide an etching for the publication, 1f.
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