| Description | Penguin Modern Painters Series [MP/0706]:
MP13: Ben Nicholson by John Summerson - File contains correspondence from Ben Nicholson regarding the book's sales figures, requests for copies of the book, comments on the book's colour plates and text, a list of plates for the book, collages he made of the Penguin logo from various letters, his suggestion for an insert with French translations for the book's text, suggested alterations and additions to the book's reprint, his suggestions for other artists to be included in the series, a potential monograph of his work to be published by Poetry-London, a signed copy of the book and paintings loaned to Penguin for reproduction; correspondence from John Summerson regarding the list of paintings to include in the book (with drawn symbols representing the types of subjects included in the paintings) and corrections to the book's text; and correspondence with owners of Nicholson's paintings regarding reproductions.
MP14: Frances Hodgkins by Myfanwy Evans - File contains correspondence from Frances Hodgkins (one letter has her signature cut out) regarding corrections to the book's text; correspondence from Myfanwy Evans (later Piper) regarding corrections to the book, potential libel issues concerning mentions of Nerli in the book and comments on how the painting reproductions had been printed; correspondence from Kenneth Clark regarding photographs of Hodgkins' work.
MP15: David Jones by Robin Ironside - File contains correspondence from David Jones regarding the return of photographs of his work, his requests for copies of the book, corrections to the book and the size of his works; correspondence from Helen Sutherland regarding the loan of pictures of David Jones' work following the loss of the original reproductions due to war damage; correspondence from Robin Ironside regarding the sizes of Jones' work, corrections and arrangements for reproductions made for the book and his contract for the book.
MP16: Paul Klee by Douglas Cooper - File contains correspondence from Douglas Cooper regarding lists of people he would like the book sent to, suggested colour plates for the book with his later comments on how they were printed, payment of royalties for the book and corrections to the book's text; correspondence with Paul Klee's estate regarding royalties for the book.
MP17: Ivon Hitchens by Patrick Heron - File contains correspondence from Ivon Hitchens regarding arrangements for meetings, his queries about the book's production process, arrangements for reproductions of his work, the book's layout (with sketches of this by him) and comments on the book's plates and foreword; correspondence from Patrick Heron regarding Hitchens' initial proposal for him to do the book's introduction and his progress on the introduction; lists of plates for the book; correspondence from owners of Hitchens' works regarding permissions to reproduce them.
[MP18]: Picasso by Douglas Cooper [Never published] - File contains correspondence with Douglas Cooper regarding complaints from both sides over the delivery of the book's manuscript, the book's cover design, his contract for the book, comments on the book's plates, queries over his referencing, the choice of illustrations for the book, his suggestion for multiple volumes on Picasso and issues with Penguin's contract with Picasso for the book.
MP19: Edward Hopper by Lloyd Goodrich - File contains correspondence from the Museum of Modern Art and Lloyd Goodrich regarding changes to the book's formatting.
MP20: Georges Braque by John Richardson - File contains correspondence from John Richardson regarding comments on the book's formatting, comments on reproductions made for the book, his queries over reproduction rights, his list of plates for the book and his communications with Georges Braque.
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.
Also includes production costs for MP1-MP6 as at September 1945; production costs for MP-MP11 as at March 1948; summary stock valuation at cost with net profit from sale of stock (MP1-MP11) on hand at 31 March 1948. |