Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[1 April 1942]

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [1 April 1942]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, written on 1 and 2 April. Discusses Quentin Bell's being offered jobs by Eddie Playfair at the Treasury and Bunny Garnett at the Foreign Office; the purchase of Bell's 'Snow at Tilton' (1941) by CEMA (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts); working on the Nativity for Berwick Church; and Frances Byng Stamper, Caroline Byng Lucas and Roger Fry's pictures. Also mentions Angelica and Clive Bell, and Grace Germany.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/220

London Group Post-Impressionism British War Art Bloomsbury Group

Archive context

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 20078/1/44/220