Vanessa Bell
1879–1961
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Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf.
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Read full Wikipedia entryArtworks
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Vanessa Bell Chrysanthemums
1920 -
Vanessa Bell Nude
c.1922–3 -
Vanessa Bell Helen Dudley
c.1915 -
Vanessa Bell Still Life on Corner of a Mantelpiece
1914 -
Vanessa Bell Frederick and Jessie Etchells Painting
1912 -
Vanessa Bell Studland Beach. Verso: Group of Male Nudes by Duncan Grant
c.1912 -
Vanessa Bell Abstract Painting
c.1914
Artist as subject
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Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter [from Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
20 July 1932 -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Duncan [Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[14 June 1923] -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell [London]
30 July 1935 -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D.[Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
8 January 1927 -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
30 July 1930 -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[20 May 1935] -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Postcard from D. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[24 December 1928] -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Postcard from D.G. [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[5 May 1919] -
Duncan Grant, recipient: Vanessa Bell Letter from Bear [Duncan Grant] to Vanessa Bell
[18 February 1930]
Film and audio
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Podcast
Walks of art: Bonnie Greer on Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group
The writer and critic explores the friendships, work and designs behind this radical set of artists
Features
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Tate Etc
Opinion: 'Middlebrow' art
‘Highbrow’ and ‘lowbrow’ art – the cultural hierarchies have been with us for over 100 years, but it is time …
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Art Term
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is the name commonly used to identify a circle of intellectuals and artists who lived in Bloomsbury, near central …
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In Focus
Abstract Painting c.1914 by Vanessa Bell
This In Focus presents the first sustained analysis of this enigmatic painting – now regarded as a key work in …
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Tate Etc
Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting c.1914: A poem by Jack Underwood
A poem by Jack Underwood in response to Vanessa Bell's 'Abstract Painting', c.1914 -
Tate Etc
Family pleasures: Behind the curtain
Henrietta Garnett, a regular visitor to the Tate archive, recognises two painted calendars done by her grandmother Vanessa Bell.
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Tate Etc
My dearest Clive...: Behind the curtain
Inspired by her mother’s love letters to her father, Tishani Doshi reads the moving correspondence in the Tate archive between …
Sketches, letters, etc.
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Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.May 1940] -
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1916] -
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1918] -
Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
[c.1932]
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