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- Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
- Recipient
- Duncan Grant 1885–1978
- Title
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
- Date
- [c.May 1940]
- Description
- Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, Plymouth, Devon, working as a war artist. Discusses the war and decorations, and mentions Angelica Bell and Bunny Garnett, Clive and Quentin Bell, Ethel Léontine Gabain, recently appointed President of the Society of Women Artists, and her son Christopher Copley, Walter Higgens ('The Dolt'), Desmond MacCarthy and G.E. Moore ('the Moor'), John Nash, and Virginia Woolf.
- Format
- Artwork - painting
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
- Reference
- TGA 20078/1/44/217
Archive context
- Personal papers of Duncan Grant TGA 20078 (234)
- Correspondence TGA 20078/1 (234)
- Letters from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44 (234)
- Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant TGA 20078/1/44/217
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