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‘Memorandum to Ewan Phillips’

15 February 1940

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Art and Entertainment Emergency Council
Recipient
Ewan Phillips
Title
‘Memorandum to Ewan Phillips’
Date
15 February 1940
Description
Unsigned AEEC 'Memorandum to Ewan Phillips' emphasising the need to put the 'point of view of the professional artists' before the Parliamentary Committee for the Employment of Artists in Wartime.
Format
Document - correspondence
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Ewan Phillips, July 1982.
Reference
TGA 8217/1/1/15

Archive context

  • Professional and personal papers of Ewan Phillips TGA 8217 (70)
    • Correspondence TGA 8217/1 (33)
      • Art and Entertainment Emergency Council correspondence TGA 8217/1/1 (7)
        • ‘Memorandum to Ewan Phillips’ TGA 8217/1/1/15
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