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Total number of records: 641

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Archives621
Art items18
Objects2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection234
Herbert Read Collection94
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive90
English Literature71
Liddle Collection61
Leeds Poetry41
Letters Database23
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections20
Rudolf Laban Collections13
Art and Antique Market12

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letter writing51
exhibitions33
art education25
letters18
interest groups14
artists11
artists' contracts10
photographs10
world war, 1914-191810
authors and publishers9

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London, United Kingdom52
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Croagnes, France2
Liverpool, United Kingdom2
Amberley, United Kingdom1
Anticoli, Italy1
Ascona, Switzerland1
Bath, United Kingdom1
Birmingham, United Kingdom1
Brissago, Switzerland1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)21
Stoker, Bram18
English National Opera North17
Opera North17
Blackburn, Thomas (1916-1977)11
Thomas Eliel Fenwick Blackburn11
Rossetti, William Michael (1829-1919)7
Brown, Wayne4
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)4
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-19053

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From 17006
From 180063
From 1900536
From 200036

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Up to 189938
Up to 1999516
Up to latest84

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The Artist's Crew

1914-1918

Photocopy of recollection; 'The Artist's Crew', R. D. Owen.

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Artist Models

c.1950 - c.2017

Cuttings from various periodicals, press and auction catalogues referencing artist's models (figures).

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Boxes - artists

c.1950 - c.2017

Cuttings from various periodicals, press and auction catalogues referencing artists boxes for storing artists materials by various makers including J Newman, R.Ackerman, Win(d)sor & Newton, Reeves& In...

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Biographies of Artists, document

1999

Folder headed "Artists Biographies from "Dictionary of 20th C Art" and "Anna Pavlova, Ursula Hageli and Richard Slaughter" in English, containing pages 132, 184, 185, 193,194, 281, 342 and 343 from th...

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"Zigeuner," Unknown artist

c.1820

Print (so titled), coloured by hand, of man playing violin and girl apparently about to sing. Published by M. Treutsensky, Vienna. Loosely mounted.(There is a printed illustration on the reverse of ...

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A Nest of Gentle Artists

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1962

Typescript carbon copy of 'A Nest of Gentle Artists', 8ff.

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The Artist and his Community

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1950

This file includes 1 typescript with manuscript corrections, headed The Artist and his Community. There are also manuscript notes, one of which is headed '[Herbert Read: to add at end of text].

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Recruitment of Artistic Director

1999-1999

Includes papers re recruitment of a new (fourth) Artistic Director, including schedule of interviewees and correspondence on the matter. The chosen candidate was Stefano Giannetti. Some sheets printed...

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Artist Placement Group

22 Jan - 2 May 1968

This file contains 2 signed typescript letters, 2 typescript reports and 1 photocopy relating to the Artist Placement Group. 1 signed typescript letter is to Herbert Read from Barbara Latham, Co-Fou...

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Individual artist programmes

2014-2020

Communications Department programmes celebrating individual artists, for instance upon their retirement from dancing or as a tribute after death.

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Dictionary of Women Artists

1996-1997

A proof and copy of Peter Rose's contribution to 'Dictionary of Women Artists', as well as 2 pages of correspondence also relating to it. The entry he wrote was on Hannah Bolton Barlow and Elizabeth F...

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