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Total number of records: 11

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives9
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection11
Herbert Read Collection11
English Literature9

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
sculpture, modern11
anarchism9
art9
art, modern9
english poetry9
modernism (art)9
relief (sculpture)1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
James, Philip1
London County Council1
London County Council. Exhibition1
Rainbird, George (1905-1986)1
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)1
Rowe, Robert Stewart (2009)1
Volboudt, Pierre1
Xxe Siecle (Gallery)1

Archive Print Item

Sculpture in the open air

James, Philip; London County Council. Exhibition

1960

Catalogue of an exhibition held May - September, 1960, at Battersea Park, London.

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Archive Print Item

Le relief

Volboudt, Pierre; XXe Siècle (Gallery)

[1960]

Catalogue of the 1st Relief exhibition at XXe Siècle, Paris, 2-31 December, 1960. Cover title.

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Archive File

Travel notes

c.1960s

File containing one small notebook and loose notes, presumably removed from a notebook documenting itineraries and contacts, mainly for European travel during the mid 1960s. Notes presumably in Read's...

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Archive File

Herbert Read discretionary trust

1953 - 1970

This file contains statements, correspondence and carbon copies relating to Herbert Read's discretionary trust. File 1 of 2 contains assorted material dated 1953 - 59.

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Archive File

Leeds Art Collections Fund

Rowe, Robert Stewart (2009)

17 Oct 1960 - 23 May 1968

This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to the Leeds Art Collections Fund. Herbert Read was a Trustee of the Leeds Art Collections Fund from 1960 until his death in 1968. ...

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Archive File

Rainbird / Acanthus History of Sculpture

Rainbird, George (1905-1986)

c.1959 - 1963

Material concerning Read's work on the Acanthus History of Sculpture series. Read was contracted by George Rainbird and was a general editor of the series, alongside Hender Delves Molesworth. Frederic...

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Archive Series

Correspondence: organisations and institutions

c.1914 - 1968

This series contains correspondence and associated material chiefly addressed to Herbert Read from 170 organisations and institutions with some letters, carbon copies and manuscript drafts by Read. Ca...

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Archive Sub-series

Periodicals

c.1914-1968

This sub-series contains correspondence and associated material chiefly addressed to Herbert Read from 73 periodicals with some carbon copies and typescript drafts by Read. Carbon copies of Read’s r...

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Scrapbooks

1919 - 1964

This box contains 3 green leather-bound scrapbooks, with indexes, containing newspaper cuttings of reviews of Herbert Read’s work in chronological order. Book 1 covers the years 1919 – 1935 and ...

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Archive Series

Correspondence: individuals

1922-c.1970

This series contains letters chiefly addressed to Herbert Read, with some letters, carbon copies, and manuscript drafts by Read. Carbon copies of Read's letters were often typed onto the verso of corr...

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Miscellaneous articles

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1929-1969

This file contains clippings and offprints of published articles, letters, poems and plays by Herbert Read. In most cases the articles have been cut from their original context, but where an entire co...

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