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WCAA Catalogue Refno Digital 01 Resources 43 Collection of Material About Newlyn School of Art on Chywoone Hill WCAA Catalogue RefNo Digital 01 Resources 43 Collection of material about Newlyn School of Art on Chywoone Hill. 1 General 1115 Collection of Inside Cornwall Gallery Guides, 2011, 2015 1 General 3231 List of artists in Bridgeman Art Library 1 General 1796 DW Copy. M Treave copy 'Ready for the Show' about artists paintings on show in 1 General Newlyn studios in January 1991. 1373 The Newlynites - biographies of artists. Offprint. No source or date. 1 General 74 Article about Henry Geoffroi who founded the Penzance School of Art. 1 General 71 Newsletter No 2 of Voice of the Arts in Newlyn, April 2004 1 General 129 List of paintings in Sotheby's Catalogue of British Impressionist and Post 1 General Impressionist Drawings and Paintings New Bond Street, London 19/11/1980 3227 List of dates when copyright on photographs of paintings ends. 1 General 1537 List of archive material held at the Royal Institute of Painters 1882-1997. 1 General 214 South West Arts (SWA) Slide Index. Lists of Artists (8 sides), photographers (3 sides), 1 General craftspeople (5 sides), sculptors (2 Pages) on 16 Collection of material about Newlyn School of Art, Chywoone Hill dated 2017 1 General 1539 Lists of paintings including many pictures by West Cornwall Artists produced by 1 General Abbott & Holder. 453 Collection of Cornwall Contemporary Art Maps 2011, 2012, 2013 1 General 2303 Index of artists in Phillips Catalogues dated 2001. 1 General 2306 Messums price list for paintings Spring 2001: Bramley, Forbes, Garstin, Hall, Harris, 1 General Harvey, Knight, Langley, Mostyn, Olsson, Procter, Richards, Simpson, Suthers, Tayler, Todd, Tuke, White. 676 Collection of material about Penzance Art School 1 General 3839 Maps of Newlyn showing where the artists lived [1] Iris Green Artists at Home [2] 1 General Andrew Gorden, 1883-1947. 851 Summary of material of interest about Lamorna and Newlyn painters in 'The Fine 1 General Art File'. Individual items also listed separately. Compiled by David Spackman. 112 List of Cornish paintings from Somerset collections compiled by the Lamorna 1 General Society, 20/5/2007 1059 Finding Inspiration on the Moor by John Yeats. The Field, May 1995. About sporting 2 Colony artists on Exmoor including Alfred Munnings 2415 'The New English Art Club' in Robert Emmons The Life and Opinions of Walter 2 Colony Sickert, Lund Humphrues 92-106. 942 DW Copy. Artists. Overview of artists who came to Newlyn and Lamorna. 2 Colony 906 Offprint: Dennis Steer, English Art 1870-1940, Clarenden Press 1978:28-47. Includes 2 Colony references to NEAC and Newlyn Colony. 12 July 2018 Page 1 of 52 RefNo Digital 1058 Bushey Museum and Art Gallery has original works by Newlyn, St Ives & Lamorna 2 Colony Artists. Works listed under individual artists. Correspondence with Grant Longman, the Collections Curator, Bushey Museum and Art Gallery. 1060 List of paintings by Birch, Laura Knight and Munnings in store in the Art Gallery of 2 Colony New South Wales, Sidney. 1110 Extract from Studio Vol13 Issue 61 1898:195. Mentions paintings of E & S Forbes, TC 2 Colony Gotch, Sherwood Hunter. 837 A Painter’s Snug Corner, The Atlantic Monthly Volume 71, Issue 425. March 1893. 2 Colony New York. 1748 Return of the Native, Antique Collector, June 1991 2 Colony 1372 Lists of paintings with a Cornish connection in the RA Illustrated 1889-1936 2 Colony 1406 Newlyn colony of artists named the Newlyn School for convenience in an article in 2 Colony The Artist, 1/8/1888: 233-235 1429 Offprint. No author, 'How the artists came to Cornwall', Unknown publication pp2-45 2 Colony 1469 1876 map of Newlyn marking where the artists lived 'out the green'. Cliff Castle. Cliff 2 Colony Cottage. Pembroke Lodge. Pembroke Cottages. Gwavas Terrace. Used in Open Day. 1696 Article: Two painters in Cornwall Alfred Wallis and Christopher Wood. World 2 Colony Review, March 1945. 2358 Offprint: Frank Richards, Newlyn as a Sketching Ground, Studio Vol 5 (25) April 1895 2 Colony 2369 Notes on sources of information for members of the Newlyn colony 2 Colony 2389 List of artists from Art Colony exhibiting at the Walker Gallery, 1897. 2 Colony 1180 Cornwall's Painters by Denys Val Baker. Undated. 2 Colony 99 Article: Christina Fletcher, The Newlyn School. This England Summer 1981 2 Colony 126 Lorraine Craig, The Newlyn School of Painters, Cornish Review. Undated. 2 Colony 4960 Offprint: Iris Green, Artists at Home. 2 Colony 62 Extracts from GP Jacomb Hood, With Brush and Pencil, John Murray 1925. Copy of 2 Colony chapter on the Slade School of Art. 57 Offprint: Frederick Dolman, Painters of the Sea, The Strand Magazine, Vol; XXX No 2 Colony 176, August 1905. Includes Napier-Hemy and Tuke. 56 Offprint: Bastien Lepage and Modern Realism, Scottish Art review, Vol 1 October 2 Colony 1888 4944 Article by Frank Ruhrmund 'New Gallery for Early Art' with information about 2 Colony Newlyn School artists. Unknown publication. 117 List of artists working in Newlyn 1880-1900, compiled by George Bednar. Published 2 Colony by Penlee House. 125 Notes from the Artists' studios 1980. Published by St Peter's Parish Magazine. No 2 Colony date. 4986 List of artists and their birth and death dates. Bednar Collection. 2 Colony 131 Laura Wortley, British Impressionism, Arts Review 10/4/1987 2 Colony 12 July 2018 Page 2 of 52 RefNo Digital 188 Offprint: Tom Cross, Artists in Cornwall: the early years, Art Prices Review Spring 2 Colony 1995:19-27 4714 Extract from CE Vulliamy, Calico Pie published Michael Joseph, 1940 pp98-127. 2 Colony Digital. Also paper compiled by Austin Wormleighton 'Vulliamy’s Memories of the Newlyn Colony'. 800 WJ Laidlay, The Origin and First Two Years of the New English Art Club. Printed for 2 Colony the author by John Lane, The Bodley Head. Photocopy of Book. 116 Artists in West Cornwall 1880-1950. Offprint from internet 2 Colony 7 Collection of obituaries and material about artists' graves and other monuments. 3 Painters Graves Graveyards included are at Devoran, Falmouth, Paul, Penzance, St Buryan, St Hilary, St Ives, Sancreed and Zennor. Some graveyards outside Cornwall included. Also a database listing information. 709 The Siren. Online Newsletter about St Ives Art produced by David Tovey. Digital 4 Siren copies. Issue 1 June 2013. Issue 2 October 2013. Issue 3 February 2014. Issue 4 June 2014. Issue 5 October 2014. Issue 7 June 2015. Issue 8 October 2015. Issue 9 February 2016. Issue 10 June 2016. Issue 11 Octber2016. Issue 12 February 2017. Issue 13 June 2017. Issue 14 309 Catalogues for Open Studios, Cornwall. September 3-24 2000; June 2-10, 2012; 5 Open Studio 25/5/2013-2/6/2013; 23-31.5.2015. Also other material. 4171 Collection of information about Newlyn Art Festival and Newlyn Open Studios. 5 Open Studio Open Studios in Newlyn, 16-18/9/2011. Programme January-April 2011. Leaflet for Newlyn Art Festival 7-23 October 2016 1744 Collection of material about the West Cornwall Art Archive Working Group 2007- 6 WCAA 2008, formed to decide the future of the West Cornwall Art Archive. Minutes. Correspondence. 2267 Collection of correspondence and papers from the West Cornwall Art Archive. Filed 6 WCAA by date. 9 Collection of undated papers relating to the West Cornwall Art Archive. 6 WCAA 8 Collection of papers relating to the West Cornwall Art Archive, 2008. Filed by date. 6 WCAA 6 Collection of papers relating to the West Cornwall Art Archive, 2007. Filed by date. 6 WCAA Box File Penlee 13 4 photos of occasion when WCAA material was on display at the home of Melissa 6 WCAA Hardie who set up the archive. 174 Collection of material about the West Cornwall Art Archive 1995-2012. Parts of this 6 WCAA became the current Art Archive, the rest was given to Penlee House. Original lists of material in West Cornwall Art Archive boxes donated to the Art Archive, 13/4/2012. Logo (digital). Lists compiled by Friends of the Archive for cataloguing. 1218 Correspondence and papers. George Bednar's research and publications about 6 WCAA artists in Cornwall. Filed by Date. 2376 Collection of papers about Alison Bevan, Penlee Galley. Cuttings. 7 People 2431 Collection of papers about Jo Mattingly, art historian, artist. 7 People 202 Collection of papers about Catherine Wallace. Falmouth Gallery. Book reviews. 7 People Cuttings. 2290 Collection of material about curator Jonathan Holmes, Penlee Galley. Cutting. Photo. 7 People 12 July 2018 Page 3 of 52 RefNo Digital 1899 Collection of material about Eileen Hunt who was curator of NAG 1952-1956. 7 People 14 Collection of papers about Emily Ash, curator Newlyn Art Gallery (NAG). 7 People 1370 Collection of papers about Melissa Hardy and her publications. Including cover of 7 People 'Mere Interlude: Some Literary Visitors in Lyonnesse', 1992. A collection of papers about the Cornwall of writers such as Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, John Betjeman, D.H. Lawrence and Dylan Thomas. A full reprint of Hardy's short story A Mere Interlude, based in Penzance and the Isles of Scilly, is included. 1136 Art Journal, 1901:382. Passing events 8 Other 331 Collection of material about Badcocks's Gallery in Newlyn. Listed on Other Gallery 8 Other database. Filed in Leitz Badcocks. 101 Article about Bucca Gallery which occupies the site of the old Badcocks Gallery in 8 Other Newlyn. My Cornwall Feb.Mar 2013 Vol 2 Issue 16 p82-83 1138 Collection of catalogues of The Royal Glasgow Instiitute of the Fine Arts. 4 8 Other catalogues. 85 1946; 86 1947; 87 1948; 90 1951. Charles Simpson Archive.
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