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Rome-New York Art Foundation

Archive File: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/121

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Rome-New York Art Foundation

Level: File

Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/121

Related People: James J. Sweeney(Sender); Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient)

Creator(s): Sweeney, James Johnson (1900-1986)

Date(s): 6 Oct 1956 - 3 Oct 1957

Size and medium: 13 items

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692673

Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection

Description

This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Rome-New York Art Foundation.


Hebert Read was Great Britain’s representative on the Artistic Committee for the Rome-New York Art Foundation.


Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Frances McCann, founder of the Rome-New York Art Foundation and James Johnson Sweeney, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.


The file also includes 1 typescript foreword for a catalogue published by the Rome-New York Art Foundation by Herbert Read, 3ff; 1 typescript article titled ‘Moments of Vision’ by Read, 6ff; 1 typescript booklet by the Rome-New York Art Foundation, and typescript papers outlining the Foundation’s purposes, members and exhibitions, 4ff.

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