| Description | This file includes correspondence sent and received by Petherbridge concerning a wide range of activities undertaken in both a professional capacity as an artist, writer, and art educator, as well as in a personal capacity, including:
-solo exhibition at Whitechapel Art Gallery, 'The Iron Siege of Pavia and Other Drawings', 9 Sep-19 Oct 1975 (e.g. correspondence with Jasia Reichardt, grant application for framing, invitations and letters of congratulations, publicity ephemera)
-group exhibitions (e.g. Artists Market, including poster for the exhibition)
-approaches to galleries (e.g. sending slides and biographical information to selection committees and galleries such as James YU, Oliver Dowling, and Kunsthalle Museum)
-approaches from galleries (e.g. Fischer Fine Arts)
-journalism (e.g. drawings reproduced in journals, article for the periodical Leonardo International Journal of the Contemporary Artist, 'On my Architectonic Drawings, Vol.10 No.3 Summer 1977)
-commissions (e.g. Concord Lighting, Tubetrack catalogue)
-loan of art work (e.g. loan of 'Vox Uccelli' to Workspace)
-Art Information Registry (AIR) (e.g correspondence from AIR about galleries and individuals interested in Petherbridge's work)
-applications for competitions and projects (e.g. Gulbenkian Award, Operazione Roma Eterna, Seventh Europe Prize, Art into Landscape II)
-personal correspondence (e.g. travel arrangements, letters of congratulations)
-correspondence with owners of art (e.g. 'Beylik Han')
-Arts Council (bursary requests, competitions)
This file also includes correspondence with Lewis Thorpe concerning the sale of a book with three etchings, produced for the Whitechapel exhibition by both Deanna and Guy Petherbridge.
Of particular note:
-correspondence between Petherbridge and Frank Malina, editor of Leonardo, dated 23 Sep 1975-10 Oct 1977, concerning the editing of Petherbridge's article, with various drafts attached |
| Image Caption | Letter from Petherbridge to Frank Malina, dated 25 Mar 1977, concerning the editing of Petherbridge's article for Leonardo |