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- Ewan Phillips
- Recipient
- Robert Burstow
- Title
- Copy of a letter from Ewan Phillips to Robert Burstow
- Date
- 5 November 1992
- Description
- Photocopy of a letter in which Phillips reflects on a meeting with Burstow, including the statement 'I was taken aback when you inferred that the Americans could have thought of the ICA as having some kind of political agenda' and adding that 'People such as Roland [Penrose], Herbert Read, Henry Moore and Misha Black were all very careful to avoid any party political label which might affect their careers'.
- Format
- Document - correspondence
- Collection
- Tate Archive
- Acquisition
- Presented to Tate Archive by the executors of Ewan Phillips, 1996.
- Reference
- TGA 9610/1/4/6/3
Archive context
- Personal papers of Ewan Phillips TGA 9610 (237)
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- Correspondence TGA 9610/1 (46)
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- ICA and related correspondence TGA 9610/1/4 (10)
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- Correspondence relating to the ‘Unknown Political Prisoner’ competition TGA 9610/1/4/6 (4)
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- Copy of a letter from Ewan Phillips to Robert Burstow TGA 9610/1/4/6/3