Ref NoBS/4/6
TitleCorrespondence
DescriptionThis correspondence relates to works of art that Sewell owned. It includes:

-five letters from Max Browne, author, dated 7 February 1977-14 December 2009, and a letter and a photograph of a picture from Malcolm Cormack, Curator, Yale Center for British Art, dated 22 December 1988, all concerning a painting titled 'The Wish' by Theodor von Holst (1810-1844)
-letter from James Grundy, dated 14 February 1978, concerning a picture by G. M. Casper
-two letters and two photographs from Jill Finsten-Liebowitz, dated 6 March and 13 June 1978, concerning the attribution of drawings
-three letters between Sewell and Richard Ormond, museum director and author, dated 11-19 December 1978, concerning works by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), and four letters and related documents, dated 12 July 1999-10 December 2010, concerning the bronze figure 'Eros and Psyche'
-three letters between Sewell, Garnett McCoy, Archives of American Art, and Nicki Thiras, Addison Gallery of American Art, dated 2 April-16 May 1979, all concerning James Reynold
-letter from Helen Hall, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, dated 15 September 1986, concerning a painting by Harold Gilman (1876-1919) titled 'Beechwoods'
-two letters and three photographs from Pierre Bertrand, Fondation Albert Gleizes, and Kate Garmeson, Sotheby's, dated 10 June 1997 and 15 April 1991, concerning images of the works by the painter Albert Gleizes (1881-1953)
-letter from George [?], The Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated 12 May 1998, concerning a drawing to be added to the museum's collection
-letter from Elaine Kilmurray, Research Director of the John Singer Sargent Catalogue Raisonné, dated 12 July 1999, concerning a painting by Sargent titled 'Pink Clematis in a Glass Vase'
-three letters and three photographs from J.S. Dearden, Director for Ruskin Affairs, Guild of St George, dated 17 March-2 May 2001, and Sewell's typed description of a watercolour titled 'Inconstancy' by John Ruskin (1819-1900), all concerning the latter giving drawings to Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
-letter from Desmond Shawe-Taylor, Director, Dulwich Picture Gallery, dated 10 April 2003, thanking Sewell for loaning a work of art by Arthur Rackham for the exhibition held at the Gallery of the artist's work
Date1977-2010
LevelFile
Extent1 file
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