Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.1912]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.1912]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Grant, Asheham House, Rodmell, Lewes, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant. She is staying with Clive and Roger Fry, who exhaust her with discussions about art, and has seen Dr Craig, a nerve specialist. She contemplates returning to oil painting after her watercolours compare unfavourably to the Cézannes Fry showed her. Also mentions Frederick and Jessie Etchells, George (?Duckworth), and Adrian Stephen.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/12

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Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
- - Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
  - - Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/12