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Total number of records: 619

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives439
Books and printed items179
Objects1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
South Bank Show Production Archive368
Brotherton Collection107
Herbert Read Collection61
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive40
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection32
Leeds Russian Archive19
English Literature6
Art and Antique Market1
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1
LGBTQ1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
sculpture619
painting92
art education34
letter writing26
drawing25
architecture23
art19
universities13
fellowships12
higher education12

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom19
Leeds, United Kingdom17
Vatican City8
Rome (Italy)7
England5
Beckenham, United Kingdom2
Birmingham, United Kingdom2
Europe2
France2
Genoa, Italy2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Filhol, Antoine Michel20
Filhol, Antoine Michel (1759-1812)20
Lavallee, Joseph20
Lavallee, Joseph (1747-1816)20
De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)12
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Caraffe, Armand Charles10
Caraffe, Armand Charles (1762-1822)10
Guerra, Camillo8
Guerra, Camillo (1797-1874)8

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 16002
From 170015
From 180080
From 1900395
From 2000127

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 16992
Up to 179913
Up to 189981
Up to 1999395
Up to latest128

Archive Sub-series

Students and student work

c. 1947-1968

36 black and white and colour photographs and 8 negatives featuring art students and their work, including a photograph of two students paintings at Leeds College of Art, undated examples of Basic Des...

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Art notes

1939

Two copies of a press cutting by 'H.K.' from an unidentified newspaper, with a review of the Artists' International Association exhibition at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. The author supports the aims ...

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External examiner documents

1954-1959

Various documents related to Maurice de Sausmarez's role as an external examiner at art schools in Wakefield and Harrogate and the Institute of Education at the University of Leeds. Also includes a co...

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Hubert 'Nibs' Dalwood to Maurice de Sausmarez

1958-2007

Typewritten letter from James Martin of Cheltenham College of Art to Hubert Dalwood, thanking Dalwood for his description of the proposed conference of sculpture teachers in Leeds for January 1959 and...

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Photographs of a plaster bust of Clara Anastasia Novello

c. 1906

Photographs of a plaster bust of Clara Anastasia Novello by the Italian sculptor Alessandro Puttinati. Two of the photographs are smaller and unmounted, showing a three-quarter view of the bust on a c...

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Most, W. to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1846-1848

Two handwritten letters from W. Most to Mary Cowden Clarke. The letter dated 15 December 1846 includes an apology from Most for not responding to Cowden Clarke's letter sooner and explaining the many ...

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Four abstract sculptors

1960

Six copies of offprints of Maurice de Sausmarez's article 'Four abstract sculptors', published in Motif: A Journal of the Visual Arts, 5 (Autumn 1960), pp. 32-43, on the work of Hubert Dalwood, John W...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to the Editor of the News Chronicle and Chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Committee

c.1947

Two handwritten copies of letters from Maurice de Sausmarez, represented the Artists' International Association, to the Editor of the News Chronicle and Chairman of the Roosevelt Memorial Committee, c...

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Interviews

1956-1967

Transcriptions of conversations between Maurice de Sausmarez and the artists Bridget Riley, Peter Sedgley, Kenneth Martin and Victor Pasmore.

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Gregory Fellowships

1950-1959

Notes, letters and printed materials related to the Gregory Fellowships in the Creative Arts, established at the University of Leeds in 1949 under the patronage of Yorkshire businessman Eric Craven Gr...

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David Lewis to Maurice de Sausmarez

1958-1969

Twelve letters between the architect David Lewis and Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing their thoughts and writings on Ben Nicholson, specifically Lewis's text on Nicholson's reliefs for the special iss...

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Jeanne Stocker and Neil Stocker to Maurice de Sausmarez

1968

Copy of a typewritten reference for the artist and art teacher Jeanne Stocker for the Battersea College of Education from Maurice de Sausmarez and a typewritten letter from her husband, the artist and...

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