Please join us for a Show and Share about the life and work of artist, Duncan Grant and his friendships with other artists and writers associated with the Bloomsbury Group, marking the culmination of a cataloguing and digitisation project to preserve and make accessible this unique archive, generously funded by the Rothschild Foundation and Kim Jones.
The Show and Share will include a talk by Project Cataloguer Annie McCoid at 12.45, presented alongside highlights selected from the recently acquired Duncan Grant collection (TGA 20262), including letters, sketchbooks, photographs and ephemera.
Duncan Grant was a central figure in the circle of artist and writers known as Bloomsbury, which included Grant's cousin Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, Roger Fry, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Virginia's sister the painter Vanessa Bell and Vanessa's husband the critic Clive Bell.
This session will explore Grant’s life and his relationship with the author David Garnett, better known to close friends as ‘Bunny’. Their relationship remained intense and significant, yet shifted dramatically between the onset of the World War I and the end of World War II.
The talk will also consider the experiences that shaped Grant’s artistic output, including his life as a father, and will explore his various friendships, including those with John Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and H. Williams.
The Show and Share will take place between 12.30–13.30 with a talk by the Project Cataloguer, Annie McCoid at 12.45, and will accompany a curated display of items from the Duncan Grant archives, containing diaries, letters, sketchbooks, photographs and ephemera.
Free for drop-ins on the day.
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