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Cecil Collins papers

[c.1930]–1989

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Available online are sketchbooks, drawings, printmaking studies and poetry by Cecil Collins, including preliminary work for the fool series and for the altarpiece 'The Icon of Divine Light', in Chichester Cathedral.

Two letters to Cecil Collins from artists and critics including Henry Moore, John Piper, Julian Trevelyan and Herbert Read are also available online.

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

Collection Owner
Cecil Collins 1908–1989
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Presented by Mrs Elisabeth Collins in 1992
Reference
TGA 923

302 objects in this collection

  • Cecil Collins papers

    302 Objects

    • Cecil Collins’ artwork

      300 Objects

    • Correspondence

      2 Objects

Title
Cecil Collins papers
Date
[c.1930]–1989
Description
Available online are sketchbooks, drawings, printmaking studies and poetry by Cecil Collins, including preliminary work for the fool series and for the altarpiece 'The Icon of Divine Light', in Chichester Cathedral.

Two letters to Cecil Collins from artists and critics including Henry Moore, John Piper, Julian Trevelyan and Herbert Read are also available online.

Details of the remainder of the collection can be found on the Archive catalogue.
Reference
TGA 923

Showing 61–80 of 302 objects

Study of spherical object by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Studies of trees and spherical objects by Cecil Collins, with annotations

Cecil Collins
date not known

Abstract painting by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Rough painting with a sun by Cecil Collins, with annotations

Cecil Collins
date not known

Colour studies by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Colour study by Cecil Collins, with annotations

Cecil Collins
date not known

Abstract painting by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Abstract painting by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Abstract painting by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Study of a child and shrouded figure on a balcony by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
1922

Drawing of a landscape in Hartley, Plymouth, by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Drawing of figures before a city by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
1933

Design for the cover of ‘The Seven Images of Love’ (poems) by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
1930s

Study of a head by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Drawing of a female figure by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Fragment of a page of studies of figures by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Study for ‘The Happy Hour’ 1943, by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
1943

Drawing of a landscape with a river by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known

Drawing of three ‘eyes of the heart’ attached to conical shapes, glowing, by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
1962

Drawing of a man and woman seated before a heart-shaped tree (possibly the artist and his wife) by Cecil Collins

Cecil Collins
date not known
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