Major accessions to repositories in 2006 relating to Art

Local

Bury Archives Service

• Bury Arts and Crafts Centre: records c1960-1999 (GBA)

Denbighshire Record Office

• Clwydian Art Society, Ruthin: corresp and papers 1965-2001 (DD/DM/1612)

East Sussex Record Office

• Ravilious family of Eastbourne and Essex: papers incl corresp of Eric Ravilious 1893-2003 (ACC 9534)
• James Lambert, watercolour painter and topographical artist: drawings of Herstmonceux Castle, with his nephew (also James Lambert) 1776 (ACC 9374)

Essex Record Office, Colchester and North-East Essex Branch

• Minories Art Gallery, Colchester: additional papers rel to the founder, Clarence Victor Batte-Lay (1865-1935) 1717-1959 (D/Q 5 addl)

Glasgow City Archives

• Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow: exhibition and project records 1993-2005 (TD1631)

Lincolnshire Archives

• Lincolnshire Artists' Society: minutes, corresp, accounts, register of members and exhibition catalogues 1920-1994 (LAS)

Newham Archive and Local Studies Library

• Association of Newham Artists: additional papers, incl records rel to the Soweto Images exhibition 1988

Norfolk Record Office

• Norfolk Contemporary Art Society (addnl): minute book 1955-1992 (ACC 2006/58)

Nottinghamshire Archives

• Nottingham Society of Artists: minutes, financial papers, membership lists, corresp, photographs, presscuttings, exhibition catalogues and publicity material 1991-2000 (6984, 6996)

Tyne and Wear Archives Service

• Joseph Wallace Black, tailor and watercolour painter: lectures and writings, papers rel to the First World War, sketchbooks, photographs 1900-32 (DF.JWB)

York City Archives Department

• William Powell Frith, painter: letters (46) to his sister Jane Keyworth 1890-1909 (089)

National

British Postal Museum and Archive: The Royal Mail Archive

• Post Office Savings Bank: posters created by Dorrit Dekk, artist (2006-0090)

National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections

• Robert Michael Ballantyne, author: sketchbook c1870 (Acc.12640)
• Joyce Gunn Cairns, portrait painter: corresp 1994-2005 (Acc.12582)
• Sir James Haldane Stewart Lockhart, colonial official and art collector: additional papers 1880-1997 (Acc.12695)
• James Scott, portrait painter: diary 1826-30 (Acc.12584)

National Library of Wales: Department of Collection Services

• Graham Vivian Sutherland, painter: additional papers (Graham Sutherland Papers)
• Mary Taubman, writer: research papers on the artist Gwen John (Mary Taubman Papers)

Public Record Office of Northern Ireland

• Derek Hill, painter and expert on Islamic architecture: corresp, papers and photographs 1934-2000 (D/4400)

University

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

• Sir Peter Markham Scott, ornithologist and artist: (additional) corresp with Edward Max Nicholson, and related corresp between Nicholson and Elspeth Huxley 1948-93 (MS Peter Scott M2950)

Cambridge University: King's College Archive Centre

• Arthur Clive Heward Bell, art critic: letters to Bertha Penrose 1926-29 (Misc. 100/CHA/1/2)

Cambridge University: Trinity College Library

• Christopher Cornford (1917-1993), artist: papers, incl some rel to the publication of Frances Cornford's poetry

Exeter University Library (Special Collections)

• John Moat, writer and artist: additional literary papers 2006 (MS 230)

London University: Senate House Library

• Thomas James Bean, author, farmer and county councillor: records incl draft conference papers rel to Richard Ford (1796-1858) art connoisseur and author c1991-1996 (MS1133)