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Keith Vaughan

Journal number twenty five

8 February–28 May 1945

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Keith Vaughan 1912–1977
Date
8 February–28 May 1945
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Created by
Keith Vaughan 1912–1977
Title
Journal number twenty five
Date
8 February–28 May 1945
Description
Covering such subjects as leave (including a party at the Lehmann's), loneliness and living without love, love affairs, casual sex, the horrors or war - especially the holocaust, the end of the war and V.E. day, fellow soldiers, Hitler's death, interacting with prisoners and discussing Germany's defeat, rural scenes, the morals of war, Sartre and the order of nature to create beauty.
Format
Bound volume - diary
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
The majority of the papers were given to the Tate Gallery by the executors of Vaughan's estate in 2008. Other items were given by Gerard Hastings and Mark Cecil.
Reference
TGA 200817/1/25
Cubism Post-Impressionism Neo-Romanticism Surrealism

Archive context

  • Personal Papers of Keith Vaughan TGA 200817 (7)
    • Journals TGA 200817/1 (7)
      • Journal number twenty five TGA 200817/1/25
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