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Ivon Hitchens, recipient: Alan Bowness

Letter from Ivon Hitchens to Alan Bowness

February 1964

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Created by
Ivon Hitchens 1893–1979
Recipient
Alan Bowness
Date
February 1964
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
328 × 203 mm
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Created by
Ivon Hitchens 1893–1979
Recipient
Alan Bowness
Title
Letter from Ivon Hitchens to Alan Bowness
Date
February 1964
Description
The letter concerns notes for Alan Bowness to use as the basis for his lecture 'Hitchens and Landscape Painting' at Southampton University, 1964. The letter is illustrated with drawings of Hitchen's slides.
Format
Document - writings
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Alan Bowness, 1982.
Reference
TGA 827/1
Cubism Post-Impressionism

Archive context

  • A small collection of six items relating to Ivon Hitchens’s art, including two documents and letters to Alan Bowness and two undated photocopied statements prepared for someone else TGA 827 (2)
    • Letter from Ivon Hitchens to Alan Bowness TGA 827/1
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