Correspondence regarding memories of the Omega Workshops
MS 6241/38
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Title
Correspondence regarding memories of the Omega Workshops
Shelfmark
MS 6241/38
Summary
Comprises:
Folder 1: Correspondence regarding Winifred Gill's recollections of the Omega Workshops, including correspondence with [Nikolaus] Pevsner, Joy Brown, [Anthony] d'Offay, Diana Holman-Hunt, Clifford Simmons (National Book League), William Plomer and Victor Cassidy, copy of poem Remembering Ottoline, and drafts of letters to Duncan Grant on subjects including Eva Gore Booth, W.B. Yeats, Wyndham Lewis, Nina Hamnett and puppets. Also includes papers regarding the death of Joan Mary Fry. Dated 1941-1972
Folder 2: Correspondence regarding questions about the Omega Workshops, including with Adrian Beach, Stephen Chaplin, Jean Hamilton, B.W. Rozran, Lucien Myers, Janet Leepen, Sheelah [Hynes], Joy Brown, Marcia Allentuck, Anthony d'Offay, William Wees, Liz Smith (fashion editor of The Observer), David Brown (Assistant Keeper, Modern Collection, Tate Gallery), Charles Handley-Read, Isabelle Anscombe and Sarah-Jane Oppenheim. Also includes a photocopy of a design for a folding screen, 1945-1978.
Folder 3: Letters to Winifred Gill from Agnes Fry and Hugh Hynes, 1957-1968. Also includes Stars and Constellations: A Little Guide to the Sky by Agnes Fry, typescript of poem On Green Things in General and Green Dust in Particular, probably by Agnes Fry, and papers relating to Agnes Fry's death.
Folder 4: Correspondence with Quentin Bell and Nina Hamnett on Winifred Gill's memories of the Omega Workshops, 1951-1969. Also includes a photograph of Winifred Gill and Nina Hamnett, pen drawings by Nina Hamnett, and an extract from a letter from Winifred Gill to Duncan Grant regarding Nina Hamnett.
Folder 5: Letters from, and drafts of letters to Duncan Grant, 1959-1978. Also includes correspondence with Sheelagh Hynes, Carol Hogben, Anthony d'Offay, Diana Holman-Hunt and Sarah Fox-Pitt (Tate Archives) relating to Winifred Gill's correspondence with Duncan Grant, and Duncan Grant exhibition material.
Date
1911, 1945-1978
Bulk, 1945-1978
Language
English
Physical extent
1 box (5 folders)
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Collection contents
Omega Workshops
Correspondence regarding memories of the Omega Workshops
