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The archives of Prunella Clough

1880–1990s

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Available online are key items which reflect the working methods and career of Prunella Clough. These include photographs used as source material and notebooks in which Clough recorded scenes and impressions which she drew on in her artwork. There are also some photographs of Clough at different ages and early illustrated letters to her father, Eric Clough-Taylor. Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.

Collection Owner
Prunella Clough 1919–1999
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented to Tate Archive by Anne Robin Banks, October 2004.
Reference
TGA 200511

196 objects in this collection

  • The archives of Prunella Clough

    196 Objects

    • Notebooks and writings

      2 Objects

    • Artworks and artist’s materials

      39 Objects

    • Photographs

      155 Objects

      • Photographs of Prunella Clough

        12 Objects

      • Photographs taken by Prunella Clough as source material for artworks

        143 Objects

        • Black and white photographs of industrial sites

          21 Objects

        • Black and white photographs of industrial sites

          37 Objects

        • Black and white photographs of industrial sites

          20 Objects

        • Black and white photographs of cranes at Corby

          5 Objects

        • Black and white photographs of gates

          2 Objects

        • Colour photographs of Aldeburgh

          16 Objects

        • Colour photographs of ‘street furniture’

          9 Objects

        • Colour photographs of rowan branches and part of a tree branch

          7 Objects

        • Colour photographs of shadows

          8 Objects

        • Colour photographs of North End shops

          10 Objects

        • Colour photographs of plastic merchandise stacked up outside shops

          7 Objects

Title
Colour photographs of plastic merchandise stacked up outside shops
Date
[1990s]
Description
Includes plastic buckets, chairs, fake flowers, footballs, buckets and spades. Two of the photographs are black and white.
Reference
TGA 200511/4/3/42

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Colour photograph of brooms, mugs, dusters, and other merchandise arranged outside a shop

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of yellow bottles of washing-up liquid in a wire basket outside a shop

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of plastic chairs, bins, buckets and baskets stacked up outside

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of a stall called ‘The Tool Shed’ selling plastic buckets and spades

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of a stall called ‘The Tool Shed’ selling plastic buckets and spades

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of footballs and brightly coloured plastic balls piled up in a wire frame

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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Colour photograph of plastic buckets stacked up underneath a shop window

Prunella Clough
[1990s]
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