Prunella Clough

Notebook containing notes on scenes and paintings

1951–70

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Created by
Prunella Clough 1919–1999
Date
1951–70
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Prunella Clough, ‘Front cover’ 1951–70

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Created by
Prunella Clough 1919–1999
Title
Notebook containing notes on scenes and paintings
Date
1951–70
Description
The notebook contains observations and ideas for works based on visits to various sites around the country including Gravesend, Wandsworth, Nottinghamshire, Staffordshire, Grimsby, and Battersea. Many of the entries are dated. There are also Clough's notes on her paintings, many of them identified by name, including ideas about composition, colours and alterations.
Enclosed between the last page and the back cover are notes entitled 'scenes of a journey' containing brief descriptions of a trip, possibly to Germany as one entry is entitled 'Saar smoke'.
Format
Bound volume - notebook
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Anne Robin Banks, October 2004.
Reference
TGA 200511/2/1/7
British Surrealism Analytical cubism Surrealism

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