Alfred Yockney papers
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Alfred Yockney papers
Classmark: MS 1939
Creator(s): Yockney, Alfred (1878-1963)(); Bone, Sir Muirhead (1876-1953)()
Date(s): 1912-1951
Language: English
Size and medium: greetings cards, manuscript papers, newspaper cuttings, pamphlets, postcards, prints, typescript papers; 4 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/163629
Description
Includes part of an A-Z collection of newspaper cuttings and notes on art, music and other subjects made by Yockney. The collection goes from A-N. Also includes collections of newspaper cuttings and notes on London County Council Art, London, and Muirhead Bone. It encompasses papers on the English Art Club, The Art Exhibitions Bureau and the English-Speaking Union, New York and prints of a painting called 'The Dispute' with Yockney's notes.
Biography or history
Alfred Yockney (1878-1963) was primarily associated with West End picture galleries. He was editor of 'Art Journal', an author and one of the directors of the Exhibitions Bureau, a precursor to the Arts Council. In 1917-18 he was the Secretary of the British War Memorials Committee at the Ministry of Information. Yockney also worked at the Imperial War Museum and Grosvenor Galleries. With D. S. MacColl, Yockney authored a book 'The Life, Work and Setting of Philip Wilson Steer' published in 1945.
Access and usage
Reproduction
Access
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