‘‘Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant‘, Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant, [c.May 1940]‘, Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant, [c.May 1940] – Tate Archive

Vanessa Bell, recipient: Duncan Grant

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Created by: Vanessa Bell 1879–1961
Recipient: Duncan Grant 1885–1978
Title: Letter from Vanessa Bell to Duncan Grant
Date: [c.May 1940]
Description: Letter from Vanessa Bell, Charleston, Firle, East Sussex, to Duncan Grant, Plymouth, Devon, working as a war artist. Discusses the war and decorations, and mentions Angelica Bell and Bunny Garnett, Clive and Quentin Bell, Ethel Léontine Gabain, recently appointed President of the Society of Women Artists, and her son Christopher Copley, Walter Higgens ('The Dolt'), Desmond MacCarthy and G.E. Moore ('the Moor'), John Nash, and Virginia Woolf.
Format: Artwork - painting
Collection: Tate Archive
Acquisition: Presented to Tate Archive by Henrietta Garnett, May 2007.
Reference: TGA 20078/1/44/217

London Group Post-Impressionism British War Art Bloomsbury Group