Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)

[c.1700–1987]

Items available online are a range of works by Ithell Colquhoun including early watercolours and writings. The collection also includes: correspondence from leading figures in the art world from Man Ray to Lady Ottoline Morrell; records relating to Ithell's interest in the Occult; and surrealist paintings produced by her students.

Also available to view online from this collection is a typescript entitled, 'Recollection of Kurt Schwitters' - an article by Ithell Colquhoun about Schwitters' life and her acquaintance with him.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the archive catalogue.

Collection Owner: Ithell Colquhoun 1906–1988
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Bequeathed by Ithell Colquhoun to the Tate Archive
Reference: TGA 929

215 objects in this collection

Papers of Ithell Colquhoun (1906-1988)

215 Objects

Title: Juvenilia
Date: [c.1920–7]
Description: TGA 929/4/1/1-11 seem to be pages from a notebook. The labels on the back of each picture do not seem to relate to the picture on the front and so may have originally referred to a picture which they were facing. The pictures originally seem to have been in the book in chronological order.

TGA 929/4/1/12-14 have all been mounted on paper, as if for display
Reference: TGA 929/4/1