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Total number of records: 534

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives485
Books and printed items49

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive477
Brotherton Collection24
English Literature6
Leeds Poetry6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Herbert Read Collection3
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
exhibitions534
letter writing130
academies and institutes98
art education68
interest groups61
painting61
paintings45
artists44
world war ii32
press cuttings28

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom302
Leeds, United Kingdom36
Nottingham, United Kingdom8
Wakefield, United Kingdom7
Great Britain5
England5
Brighton, United Kingdom4
Venice, Italy4
Guernsey, Channel Islands4
Hull, United Kingdom4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)10
Hollingshead, John4
Parnell, W G3
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)3
West, William (1770-1854)3
Baines, Edward3
Music Hall (Sheffield, England). Exhibition (1839)3
Baines, Sir Edward (1800-1890)3
Huard, Lucien (1839-)2
Ducuing, Fr2

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From 180039
From 1900488
From 20007

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189939
Up to 1999488
Up to latest7

Archive Series

Ben Nicholson

1933-1984

Publications, correspondence, images, notes and assoicated material relating to de Sausmarez's work on the artist Ben Nicholson, particularly the development of the special issue of Studio Internation...

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Bridget Riley

1958-1974

Correspondence, notes, photographs, exhibition catalogues, books and associated material related to the artist Bridget Riley and the development of her relationship with Maurice de Sausmarez, dating f...

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Artists' International Association

1937-1983

Material relating to the Artists' International Association and Maurice de Sausmarez's involvement as a member and later as Chairman of the Central Committee between 1946 and 1948. De Sausmarez first ...

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Royal Academy of Arts

1964-1969

Material related to Maurice de Sausmarez's involvement in the Royal Academy of Arts, to which he was elected as an Associate in 1964 (having first been nominated in 1951). The series includes document...

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Rosenberg Exhibition

Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)

1959-1964

In 1959 Jon Silkin and Maurice de Sausmarez (then Head of the Department of Fine Arts at the University of Leeds) organised an exhibition of manuscripts, printed works, drawings and paintings, letters...

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Posthumous

1969-2015

Material relating to memorial services and lectures, exhibitions and publications. Also includes articles and correspondence concerning Maurice de Sausmarez received by the family after his death on 2...

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Exhibition catalogues

1952-1969

Copies of printed catalogues for exhibitions of work by the artist Ben Nicholson, including presentations of early and recent paintings and drawings in private and public art galleries in Edinburgh, L...

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Press cuttings

1939-1946

Press cuttings related to the activities of the Artists' International Association (AIA) during the Second World War and shortly afterwards, the majority of which are reviews of exhibitions.

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Participated as an artist

1936-1970

Printed catalogues for exhibitions which displayed works of art by Maurice de Sausmarez, including the exhibitions of the New English Art Club, the London Group and local organisations in Yorkshire du...

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Notes

c.1945-1947

Notes in Maurice de Sausmarez's hand related to his involvement in the Artists' International Association, around the time of his tenure as Chairman between 1946 and 1947. Generally concerned with the...

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Works of art and exhibitions by others

c. 1950-1965

Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of works of art and exhibitions, taken by Maurice de Sausmarez but not featuring his own work. Includes modern exhibition prints and original colou...

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Students and student work

c. 1947-1968

36 black and white and colour photographs and 8 negatives featuring art students and their work, including a photograph of two students paintings at Leeds College of Art, undated examples of Basic Des...

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