| Description | Penguin Modern Painters Series [MP/0706]:
Correspondence between Kenneth Clark, Eunice Frost, artists and authors concerning Modern Painters 1-9, 11-20. Also general correspondence concerning the series and artists which were not covered, 1942-57.
File of correspondence from Edward Ardizzone (possibly concerning a volume which did not materialise), 1942-1945, transferred from Porpoise Books file, DM 1819/39/2
General correspondence and accounts concerning the Penguin Modern Painters Series
MP1: Henry Moore by Geoffrey Grigson
MP2: Graham Sutherland by Edward Sackville-West. Correspondence concerning print, c.1950-1957
MP3: Duncan Grant by Raymond Mortimer
MP4: Paul Nash by Herbert Read
MP5: Matthew Smith by Philip Hendy
MP6: John Piper by John Betjeman
MP7: Edward Burra by John Rothenstein
MP8: Victor Pasmore by Clive Bell: file contains 6 letters covering the period 1943-1952. Including 3 letters from Clive Bell to Eunice Frost (26 and 30 January 1943, 5 June 1944), and 1 letter from Victor Pasmore (3 February 1952).
MP9: Edward Bawden by JM Richards
MP11: Ben Shahn by James Thrall Soby
MP12: William Nicholson by Robert Nichols
Correspondence concerning Modern Painters series MP1-MP9, MP11-MP20. Correspondents for Boxes 31-32 include P. Adam, Colin Anderson, Edward Ardizzone [possibly concerning a volume about Ardizzone that did not materialize], Alfred H. Barr junior, Edward Le Bas, Charlotte Bawden, Edward Bawden, Clive Bell, Anthony Bertram, John Betjeman, Rolf Burgi, Edward Burra, Charles Clark, Kenneth Clark, Douglas Cooper (concerning a proposed book on Picasso, MP18, that never materialized), Lord Cranbrook, Cicely Dalton, Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Myfanwy Evans [Myfanwy Piper], C.E.J. Evershed, Eunice Frost, Isabel Fry, Ian Gibson-Smith, Martyn Goff, Lloyd Goodrich, Duncan Grant, Milligan Grundy, Philip Hendy, Ivon Hitchens, Frances Hodgkins, Mary Hutchinson, Robin Ironside, David Jones, Charles Kearley, Margaret King, Edward Marsh, Francis Meynell, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Ben Nicholson, Victor Pasmore, John Piper, V.S. Pritchett, Herbert Read, J.M. Richards, John Richardson, Osborne Robinson, John Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree, Edward Sackville-West, Michael Sadler, James Thrall Soby, Gilbert Spencer, Marguerite Steen, John Summerson, Helen Sutherland, Katharine Sutherland, Graham Sutherland, Allan Walton, and Victor Weybright. |