Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant

[c.5 December 1913]

Duncan Grant, ‘Page 1’ [c.5 December 1913] — © The estate of Vanessa Bell courtesy of Henrietta Garnett

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.5 December 1913]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, 46 Gordon Square, Bloomsbury, London, to Duncan Grant, Cambridge. She is preparing for the Friday Club fancy dress ball that evening. She encourages Grant to complete his work at Cambridge in order to concentrate on the upcoming Grafton Group exhibition; she feels her own painting has deteriorated since working at the Omega Workshops. Also mentions Roger Fry, Winnie Gill, Desmond MacCarthy, and Sylvia Milman.
Format: Document - correspondence
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/17

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