Piet Mondrian is one of the best known of all modern artists – but he’s also misunderstood. In fact, we could all learn a thing or two from the real Mondrian, says the curator of Tate Liverpool’s exhibition
When he got on the train just before Christmas 1911, aged 39, he left behind a fiancée
Short film about Bruce Davidson’s subway work
I’m in a crowded train.
‘Photographs of Ben Nicholson taken by family and friends‘, collection owner: Ben Nicholson OM, [c.1902–36] – part of the digitised collection of the Tate Archive
Vecchia Ronco Julius Bissier 1959 Photographs of Ben Nicholson reading on a train
This series contains photographs of works and of people and places. Nicholson kept photograph albums of his work as well as large quantities of loose photographs and colour transparencies. Therefore there is some duplication of material amongst the sections listed below. A significant amount of photographic material showing Nicholson and his family were only represented in the collection by negatives therefore contact photographs were made by the Archive and have been included in this listing, although not originally in the collection.
Vecchia Ronco Julius Bissier 1959 Photographs of Ben Nicholson reading on a train
Page 1, blank Page 2, ‚Gravel Lane Oct 10‘, paved street going uphill Page 3, ‚Stamford House Oct 10‘, corner of a warehouse Page 4, sleeping cat Page 5, cat sleeping on the edge of a stool Page 6, detail of a building with three small figures wearing hats Page 7, house partly covered with an awning Page 8, pair of tradesman’s scales Page 9, tradesman’s scales and a large bowl Page 10, park bench near a wall Page 11, three girls in school uniform Page 12, landscape with trees, and a man in a rowing boat on a lake …
sign Page 44, greengrocer’s stall or shop and several studies of heads Page 45, train
Available to view online are a selection of items from the personal papers of Ben Nicholson including writings, correspondence and photographs. The manuscripts that have been selected have been written by Nicholson over a large time frame, spanning from the mid 1930s to the early 1980s and cover Nicholson’s thoughts on his own art and other artists. The digitised correspondence is between Nicholson and his father, William Nicholson. Furthermore there is a selection of photographs of Ben Nicholson with his friends and family together they provide an insight into his relationship with his father and with his family. Also available …
Vecchia Ronco Julius Bissier 1959 Photographs of Ben Nicholson reading on a train
When I die Lord bury me deep ♪ ♪ at the end of old Chestnut Street ♪ ♪ Freight train
Artist page for Christopher Wood (1901–1930)
pursued (an effect of withdrawal fromopium), he threw himself under the London train
Cyril Kenneth Bird (1887-1965) was born in London and studied engineering at Kings College, London. On active service in the First World War he was wounded at Gallipoli in 1915 and returned to Britain. No longer fit to work as a civil engineer he turned to drawing, in which he had been interested since his school-days, adopting the name „Fougasse“, French for an exploding mine which might go off or not – he thought the same applied to his cartoons. His work first appeared in Punch in 1916 and in 1937 he became Editor of the magazine. He also designed …
officers, one with ‘L’ plate Fougasse [c.1935] View by appointment Drawing of train
Material from this collection available to view online, includes illustrated postcards, sent from Anne Estelle Rice to her young son, David Drey, as well as a cache of beautifully illustrated and colourful costume designs by her for theatre productions, such as Othello, Macbeth and A Twelfth Night dating from the 1930s. These papers provide a valuable insight into the opportunities and challenges faced by a women artist working in the early twentieth century in Paris and then London. Further material from this collection can be searched on the online catalogue, notably early sketchbooks showing her development as a talented draughtswoman, …
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