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Total number of records: 20
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968) | 4 |
| Alley, Ronald | 1 |
| Bell, Quentin (1910-1996) | 1 |
| Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983) | 1 |
| Greene, Graham (1904-1991) | 1 |
| Hawkes, Christopher (1905-) | 1 |
| Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976) | 1 |
| Richards, Frances (1901-1985) | 1 |
| Richter, Hans (1888-1976) | 1 |
| Southall, Derek (1930-) | 1 |
Schocken Books
1964 - 1971
Correspondence with Schocken Books, New York re. a number of projects including a proposed anthology The Psychology of Art, editions of Icon and Idea and The Alienated Artist, and an introduction by R...
McGraw-Hill
1968
1 letter from the art department at McGraw-Hill requesting a transparency of an original painting by a chimpanzee in Herbert Read's collection. The picture is for Art, Artists and Art Education by Ken...
V.B. Petersen: Vita Nova
c. 1954
Dummy (?) for Vita Nova by V.B. Perterson. Text and images are pasted in, with some manuscript amendments. A pasted in typescript reads 'This book is printed in 165 numbered copies signed by the artis...
Francis Gehant
14 Nov 1967 - 5 Dec 1967
1 signed typescript letter from the artist Francis Gehant to Herbert Read (1f). A carbon copy of Read's response is on the verso. Gehant writes of his appreciation of Read's book Origins of Form in Ar...
Derek Southall
Southall, Derek (1930-)
1918 - 1968
One letter addressed to Read with copy of response typed on reverse. Southall thanks Read for including him in 'your new Pelican book' (presumably Contemporary British Art), and asks if he will visit ...
David Sylvester
Sylvester, David (1924-2001)
11 Feb 1959 - 18 Feb 1959
1 letter to Herbert Read from David Sylvester with a carbon copy of Read's response. Sylvester is writing to Read to let him know a 'list of factual errors' that have appeared in a book that he doe...
Barbara Hubbard
30 Oct 1965 - 22 Dec 1965
1 letter to Herbert Read from Barbara Marx Hubbard, the wife of artist Earl Hubbard.
Kenneth Clark
Clark, Kenneth (1903-1983)
3 Feb - 21 Mar 1967
This file contains 2 manuscript and 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Kenneth Clark. Clark writes initially on hearing that Read has been ill. He congratulates Read on receiving the Er...
Helen Dow
29 Nov 1965 - 4 Jan 1966
This file contains 2 signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Helen J Dow on University of Iowa headed paper; 1 manuscript letter from Pat Hutchings on University of Western Australia headed pap...
Quentin Bell
Bell, Quentin (1910-1996)
14 Oct 1967
1 manuscript and 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Quentin Bell, 1f. The 1963 letter regards candidates for the Gregory Fellowships. Bell writes that he has been in touch with [David] H...
Concise History of Modern Painting
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Richter, Hans (1888-1976); Alley, Ronald
1958 - 1967
This file contains correspondence and associated material for 'Concise History of Modern Painting', first published in 1959 by Thames and Hudson. Material for revisions, and correspondence associated ...
Jane Downs Carter
11 Oct 1963 - 7 Dec 1964
This file contains 4 signed typescript letters to Herbert Read from Jane Downs Carter and 2 carbon copy responses from Herbert Read. The letters relate to Studio 7 created by Jane Downs Carter and an...