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Royal College of Art Sketch Club Collection, 1934-1937 .42 Linear Feet

Royal College of Art (Great Britain). Sketch Club

The collection includes the correspondence of and with various secretaries of the Royal College of Art (RCA) Students' Group, or Sketch Club, and contains 79 letters and postcards and 11 draft letters, written between 1934 and 1937. The materials focus primarily on the group's annual exhibition, and discuss the facilities, invite prominent figures, and solicit donations and judges for special prizes. The letters' authors include, in addition to the groups' secretaries, several notable artistic and literary figures in 1930s England, such as Wyndham Lewis, Kenneth Clark, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, and John Gielglud.

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Sam Smith Collection, 1972-1996, bulk 1972-1979 4 Linear Feet

Smith, Sam, 1908-

The collection comprises original work by Sam Smith including ink drawings, mock-ups, hand-carved wooden boats, paper model sets, typescripts, and correspondence.

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Stanley Wootton archive, 1933-1934 0.42 Linear Feet

Wootton, Stanley, 1895-1986

The collection comprises letters addressed to Stanley Wootton, 1933-1934, concerning horse racing and the race course at Epsom, England (home of the Derby horse race)

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Thomas Woolner Letters to John Frederick Lewis, 1863-1914, bulk 1874-1876 .42 Linear Feet

Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892

The collection comprises 15 letters from Thomas Woolner to John Frederick Lewis, written between 1874 and 1876. It also includes 5 letters from Woolner to Lewis's wife, Marian Harper, one letter from Lewis to dealer William Vokins, and several letters from Woolner's wife and daughter. The letters primarily concern Lewis's declining health—he died several months after the last letter in the collection—Woolner's admiration for Lewis's painting, updates on the politics of the Royal Academy and Woolner's ongoing artistic projects, and current exhibitions. Woolner comments on several works, including: J.M.W. Turner's, Van Goyen, Looking Out for a Subject; Elizabeth Thompson's Calling the Roll after an Engagement, Crimea; Lewis's Lion & Lioness and In the Bey's Garden; and his own monuments to Bishop John Patteson, Sir Cowasjee Jehanghier Readymoney, and Captain James Cook.

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Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant letters to Kenneth Clark and Jane Clark, 1920-1969 .42 Linear Feet

Bell, Vanessa, 1879-1961

The collection comprises correspondence from the artistic partners, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, to the art historian Kenneth Clark and his wife, Elizabeth "Jane" (née Martin).

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Wake and Bellhouse collection, 1862-1892 0.42 Linear Feet

The collection comprises 16 cabinet photographs and 11 carte-de-visite photographs, dated between 1862 and 1892, relating to the Wake and Bellhouse families of Sheffield. With a small oval portrait in a contemporary frame, and a mid-19th century original manuscript story written by a young girl, entitled "The History of a Dog, True Story."

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Whyte family Correspondence, 1880-1892 1 Linear Foot

The collection comprises correspondence sent to Eva, Lizzie Hester, and Sylvie Whyte by family and friends in the 1880s and 1890s, and provides insight into the lives of adolescent girls growing up in Victorian England in the fashionable Midlands town of Malvern, and their travels abroad.

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Yale Center for British Art Advancement and External Affairs Department records, 1966-2015 100 Linear Feet

Yale Center for British Art. Advancement and External Affairs Department

This collection consists of the Advancement and External Affairs department records from 1966 to 2015. A major component is related to exhibitions held at the Center; this includes flyer designs, invitations, videos, brochures, press clippings, bookmarks, rack cards, visitor reports, and photographs. There are also records related to Friends of British Art. Public relations documentation accounts for much of the collection.

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Yale Center for British Art annual reports, 1972-2018 2 Linear Feet

Yale Center for British Art. Office of the Director

This collection consists of the Yale Center for British Art annual reports from 1972-2016.

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Yale Center for British Art building construction and maintenance collection, 1965-2007 5 Linear Feet

Yale Center for British Art, Institutional Archives

This collection consists of material related to the construction and maintenance of the Yale Center for British Art. It includes correspondence, publications, architectural sketches, mechanical specification notebooks, photographs, and slides.

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