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Major accessions to repositories in 2023 relating to Art

Local

Archifau Ynys Mon / Anglesey Archives

  • Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe (1901-1979) naturalistic painter of British birds and other wildlife: letters and photographs; correspondence and administration rel to Kyffin Williams exhibitions; Oriel Môn and Anglesey Museums marking material and other misc items 1868-2023 (W/OM)

Bath Record Office

  • Creativity Works, art organisation and charity: case studies, papers rel to funding applications and projects, film of performances and workshops, photographs, and publications c1990-2023 (1458)

Brent Archives

  • Warren Reilly (fl1990-2023), local artist: research and personal papers, incl school ephemera from St Mary's C of E, QPCS, Wykeham and St Andrew's and St Francis C of E schools; NLHF project exhibition posters and ephemera for end of residency exhibitions c1990-2023 (ACC/2023/16)

Bristol Archives

  • Bristol Beacon (formerly Colston Hall): tickets for events; backstage passes; minutes of Box Office meetings; minutes of planning meetings; mail outs to members (including flyers); annual reports; flyers and events programmes; Box Office operations diary 2004-2017 (46951)

Cumbria Archive Centre, Kendal

  • Sumner family of Grasmere: landscape drawings of Lake District and continental scenes 1830-1902 (WDSUM)
  • Alfred Wainwright, (1907-1991), author and environmentalist: drawing of cottages at Kirkby-in-Furness 1979 (WDAW)

Derbyshire Record Office

  • Church Recording Group of the Arts Society Dove Valley, Church Recording Society: record of Church Furnishings St Peter, Snelston 2022 (D6748)

Dorset History Centre

  • Greta Berlin (b1942), artist and sculptor: corresp, press cuttings, film. working notebooks , publicity material and other records 1960s-2010s (D-GBN)

Dudley Archives and Local History Service

  • Steve Field, (b1954), artist: Dudley Borough Artist Collection, partial accession (2 boxes) 1991-2023 (Acc 10304)

Durham County Record Office

  • Bishop Auckland Town Hall: records relating to Eden Theatre shows and films c1932-1960 (D/ET)

Glamorgan Archives

  • Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff: records of the Centre and its activities, incl programmes and flyers for events, press cuttings and magazines c1971-2023 (D1983)

Horniman Museum and Gardens

  • Marie Smith (fl2023), visual artist: artist book of handbound bleached cyanotype prints (33) showing the Horniman Museum and Gardens and plants in the Nature Walk, part of a series In Conversation with Anna Atkins (1799-1871), botanist and photographer, made as an outcome from a residency at The Horniman Museum & Gardens, in response to Atkins and the popular cyanotype process that she is known for 2023 (ARC/MUS/004)

Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland, Record Office for

  • Houghton Art Circle: records 2004-2019 (DE10579)
  • James Pickering, (fl1969-1998), aerial photographer: aerial photographs of archaeological sites across the Midlands and Ordnance Survey maps annotated with the location of the crop marks 1960-1998 (DE10615)
  • Leicestershire Yeomanry: postcards of First World War cavalry and machine gun corps and related papers 1914-1918 (DE10614)
  • Jim Roberts, (fl1967-1969), photographer: photographs of window displays at Morgan Squire Department Store and Marshall & Snelgrove, fashion outfitters c1967-1969 (DE10611)
  • John Henry Whittington, (fl1980-2010), photographer: photographs and papers incl postcard, photograph & newspaper cuttings, albums (late 19th-early 21st cent), colour & B&W slides (20th-21st cent), prints, deeds to property in Barsby (1759, 1761) & Seagrave (1744), abstracts of Title to property in Humberstone (1871-1901), Juvenile Officers & Members Attendance Book c1744-2010 (DE10621)

Lincolnshire Archives

  • Unknown photographer, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment: photographic album c1950 (MISC DON 2135)
  • Unnamed photographer: photographs of all Lincolnshire Anglican churches, crosses and oddities 1991-1998 (MISC DON 2146)

London Metropolitan Archives: City of London

  • Anthony Crosby (1792-1857), artist and historian: correspondence, notebooks, notes, one sketch, printed material 1811-1852 (Accession number: B23/103)

Northumberland Archives

  • Paul Hindmarsh, photographer, Of High Westwood, County Durham: photographic records incl c3000 commercial and industrial negatives, and material from photographer Don Riddle 20th cent (NRO 12787)

Nottinghamshire Archives

  • Terry Fry, (fl late 20th cent), photographer: box of slides taken by Terry Fry 20th cent (10385)

Oldham Local Studies & Archives

  • Keith Warrender, (fl 1976-1999), employee of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council: print samples from graphic designs incl marketing and publicity materials for different council depts incl Amenities and Recreation; Education (including Grange Arts Centre); Employment; Estates and Industrial Development; Housing; Leisure Services (including Oldham Local Interest Centre); Social Services and Town Centre Development 1976-1999 (M383)

Plymouth and West Devon Record Office

  • The Lenkiewicz Foundation: papers rel to preserving and disseminating awareness of the work of Plymouth artist Robert Lenkiewicz (1941-2002) c1960-2000 (4537)
  • Plymouth Calligraphers: constitution, minutes, accounts, membership lists, newsletters and publicity material 1993-2019 (4502)

Shropshire Archives

  • Visual Arts Trust Writers in Focus exhibition (photographs of local authors), with documentation rel to this and their Double Visions exhibition 1988-1996 (9988)

Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Stoke-on-Trent City Archives

  • Notes and recipes for pottery bodies and glazes c1950 (SD 2024)
  • Pottery recipe book with recipes for bodies and glazes 19th-20th cent (SD 2023)
  • Copy books (3) with recipes for different colour glazes 19th cent (SD 2022)
  • Notes on Ceramics Congresses and visits to pottery factories in Italy c1950 (SD 2021)

Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch

  • Mary Nina Walker (d2022), artist and embroiderer of Bungay: diaries 1974-2017 (HA460)
  • Valerie Irwin (b 1947), artist: 'Change in Charcoal' sketchbooks and drawings - a response to the demolition and construction at Cranfield's Flour Mill, Ipswich 2005-2007 (HA450)
  • Isaac Johnson (1754-1835), surveyor and artist: map of an estate, formerly Wades, in Bredfield, Suffolk belonging to the Reverend John Clarke (1797) and a plan of an estate in Woodbridge 1795 1795-1797 (HD4337)

Tyne and Wear Archives

  • John Taylor, artist, Dunston: sketch books and loose artwork c1893-1930 (DT.JT)

Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service

  • Bromsgrove Guild: glass slides (250 boxes) c1800-1899 (16883)

National

British Library, Manuscript Collections

  • Edward Blore (1787-1879), architect, artist and antiquary: drawings c1883 (Add MS 89665)
  • Mervyn Laurence Peake (1911-1968), writer, artist, poet, and illustrator: visual archive 20th cent (Add MS 89724)

Historic Environment Scotland (formerly RCAHMS)

  • William Wilson (1905-1972), stained glass artist: collection of cartoons for stained glass windows for Glasgow Cathedral 1960 (2023/104)

Island Archives, Guernsey

  • Coach House Gallery: records, including photographs, financial records, exhibition lists and artist details. 1975-2023 (AQ 1742 to AQ 1746)

National Gallery Research Centre

  • George Vertue (1684-1756), engraver and antiquary: corresp, notes and inventories rel to his commission to catalogue the royal collection, especially pictures belonging to Frederick, Prince of Wales; portrait engravings and etchings by and of Vertue; various notes, incl a pen and ink sketch of Rubens 'Peace and Plenty'; and biographical extracts from Walpole's 'Catalogue of Engravers Born and Resident in England' c1745-1818 (NGA52)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

  • Lorimer family of Kellie: papers relating to Hew Lorimer, sculptor, and to other members of the Lorimer family c1876-1989 (Acc.14526)

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

  • Martin Tinney Gallery, Cardiff: archive incl cards, catalogues, exhibition lists, artists' letters, gallery adverts, press articles on the gallery and exhibitions, and art fair catalogues 1980-2022

Natural History Museum Library and Archives

  • David Measures (1937-2011), natural history artist: entomological artwork archive 1966-2010 (LIB 2023/01)

Tate Gallery Archive

  • Karsten Schubert (1961-2019), German art dealer, gallerist and publisher: personal and professional papers 1980s-2010s (TGA 20234)
  • Patrick Herbert George (1923-2016), painter: sketchbooks 1940s-2000s (TGA 20235)
  • Maud Sulter (1960-2008), artist, writer and curator: professional papers 1970s-2000s (TGA 20239)
  • Lubaina Himid (b1954), CBE RA, artist and curator: the ‘Making Histories Visible’ archive 1980s-1990s (TGA 202310)
  • Wendy Smith (fl1970-2021), artist, printmaker, educator, curator, and writer: archive, incl documentation of Camberwell protests 1970-2021 (TGA 202314)
  • Roger Cardinal (1940-2019), art historian, curator, and educator: archive, incl his illustrated diaries 1950s-2010s (TGA 202315)

V&A Archive of Art and Design

  • Frederick Sandys (1829-1904), painter and illustrator: papers 1840s-1930s (AAD/2023/5)

Special

Highgate School Archives

  • David Carpanini (b1946), Welsh artist, etcher, teacher and printmaker: donation of etchings of Kyffin Williams and exhibition catalogue 2016 (Acc.2023/12/1-8)
  • Paul Manousso (1930-2021), artist: donation of scanned letter between former pupil and staff member 2014 (Acc.2023/5)

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

  • Dr Michael Kerney (1934–2022) art historian: notebooks, correspondence, card indexes, research notes, trade lists, conservation reports and photographs rel to his interest and research in English stained glass and church architecture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 1990-2022 (MPK)

Representative Church Body Library

  • Eva Sydney Hone (1894-1955), stained glass artist: handwritten letter to Miss Marjorie Seaver (later Hone) enclosing her detailed description of the symbolism in the rose window in St John’s Malone, Belfast and making comparisons between specific symbols as it appears on a tomb in St Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny, 23 July [1948?] 1948 (MS 1151)

Wellcome Collection

  • Ron Henriques (1949-2021), artist, writer, and inventor: archive incl personal records, creative writing and inventions, and supporting material from family in their correspondence with medical staff and with charities, and efforts to support him artistically and personally. For much of his adult life Ron lived in psychiatric institutions, care homes, and supported housing in and around Exeter due to chronic mental illness c1950-2021 (PP/RON; acc 2714)
  • Myra Cohen (1923 – 2005), artist and art therapist: patient artworks and related papers from Cohen, who worked as an art therapist at Hill End Psychiatric Hospital, St Albans, Hertfordshire from 1968 to 1986 1960s-1980s (PP/MCO; acc 2733)

University

De Montfort University Archives

  • Traci Kelly, (b1961), performance artist: publications, programmes, sketchbooks, items from performance art pieces, and paperwork from her solo work and works in partnership with Richard Hancock 1998-2020 (A17)
  • Dame Zandra Rhodes, (b1940), Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and fashion designer: licensing folders, garments, merchandise, costings and production folders, press cuttings, audio-visual recordings, sketches and drawings 1965-2002 (ZR)

Dundee University Archive, Records Management and Museum Services

  • Professor Kirsty Gunn (b1960), author and educator: manuscripts and other papers incl material of and for 'The Big Music' (2012), incl artworks c2000-2010
  • Peter Horobin (b1949), aka Marshall Anderson aka Peter Haining aka Aitch aka Haining, artist: 2022 diaries and journals, data catalogue reworked in 2019 from artpool Budapest collection 2022 (MS 339)

Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections

  • Cicely Mary Barker (1895-1973), illustrator: register of work projects, month by month, 1946-1967, with nature note book for August 1909 by her sister Dorothy Oswald Barker 1909-1967 (SC-Acc-2023-0153)

Manchester Metropolitan University Library

  • Stephen Raw, (b1952), letter artist and book cover designer: artwork, business records and book cover designs c1980-2023 (RAW)

Nottingham University Library, Department of Manuscripts and Special Collections

  • University of Nottingham, Art Gallery and Djanogly Art Gallery: exhibition files 1996-2000 (UPL)
  • Feminist Archive (East Midlands): artwork, including posters and publications created by Rosemary Wels (fl 1970-2022) c1970-1979 (FME/3/6)

University of Birmingham: Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  • Peter Terson (1932-2021), playwright: material rel to his work, incl extensive sequences of produced scripts, unproduced scripts, copies of plays written for the Victoria Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent, papers rel to his memoirs, ms notebooks, some personal papers incl corresp and notes, artwork and illustrated journal sheets incl annotations and diary entries 20th-21st cent (MS1114)

University of Exeter Library (Special Collections)

  • Ewart Morien Johns (1923-2013), painter, muralist, draughtsman and lecturer: papers incl material rel to his artistic and professional career and to the Exeter University Opera Group, of which he was a founding member, rel to stage productions in the Great Hall and the Northcott Theatre 1960s-1970s (EUL MS 497)

University of Liverpool: Special Collections and Archives

  • John Higgins, (b1949), comic book artist and writer: books, magazines and art works 1970s-1990s (2023.077)

University of Reading: Special Collections

  • Ladybird Books, publisher: artwork by Keith Burns for the Ladybird Expert Series: World War Two series c2020-2023