Maeve Gilmore Exhibitions

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 58 Add MS 88931/13/3/19/8
  • Alternative Id.
      (ark) ark:/81055/vdc_100000001403.0x0003da
  • Dates of Creation
      1960-1981
  • Language of Material
      English
  • Physical Description
      1 file

Scope and Content

Mostly contains letters from well-wishers to Maeve Gilmore on the subject of her exhibition at the Langton Gallery (February 1979). Correspondents are: Arts Council of Great Britain; Caryll Faraldi at the Observer; Three Counties Guide Dog Club; M Clare Cave; Langton Gallery; Ruth [Gilmore]; Mike Horovitz; John Simons; Charles Stewart; Guide Dogs for the Blind Association; Ruth; E D Barlow; Brian [Sibley]; Clare [Peake née Penate] and Charlie [Penate]; Peter and Joan [Cotes]; Eddie McGrory; Geraldine Hutchinson; John and Mave [Grome]; Tessa Sayle; Ian; Marilyn Brooks; Ian; Anne Theroux at the BBC; Lewis Carroll Society.

Includes fifteen colour slides of Maeve Gilmore displaying dolls she has made, photographed inside 1 Drayton Gardens by the Observer. Also includes cards advertising Maeve's exhibitions at the Langton Gallery and the Woodstock Gallery (May 1960). The Woodstock Gallery card is the only item dating from before 1979.

See Add MS 88931/13/3/19/1 for private view invitation to joint exhibition of Mervyn Peake and Maeve Gilmore's work at St Catherine's College Oxford, 1975.

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