Correspondence file for the War Artists Advisory Committee (Ministry of Information)

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 8812/1/4/441a-441c
  • Dates of Creation
      Sep 1939-Dec 1939
  • Physical Description
      1 folder

Scope and Content

Kenneth Clark was the Chairman. Includes letters from artists seeking work with the committee: John Aldridge, Edward Ardizzone, John Banting, Christian Barman, Edward Bawden, Robert Baxter, Tony Baynes, Cecil Beaton, John Betjeman, Paul Bloomfield, Muirhead Bone, Stephen Bone, Martin Buckmaster, Robert Butler, Horace Buttery, W Lindsay Cable, William Coldstream, Frank Coombs, John Copley regarding William Wilson, Marie-Therese Coulter, Raymond Coxon, Robin Darwin, Anthony Devas, Campbell Dodgson, John Farleigh, Enid Furlonger, William Gaunt, Anthony Gross, James Gunn, Robin Guthrie, Alan Gwynne-Jones, Edward Halliday, Harold Hartley, regarding John Hassall (T E Fennemore), regarding Nigel Henderson, Geddes Hyslop, Norman James, T Jones, Eric Kennington, Adrian Kent, Eve Kirk, Henry Lamb, T Lee Elliott, Helen Lessore, Fiona Lion, Thomas Lowinsky, William Macaulay, Raymond McGrath, F. E. McWilliam, Robert Medley, George Millan, Henry Moore, John Pelham Napper, Eric Newton, Susan Palmer, Mervyn Peake, Charles Pears, Stuart Piggott, John Piper, Roland Pym, Eric Ravillous, Ceri Richards, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree, Briery Russell, Edward Scroggie, Rupert Shepphard, 'Simon', Professor Ernest Ster (badly damaged), Harold Steggles, Walter Steggles, John Strachey, Rowland Suddaby, Geoffrey Tibble, Feliks Topolski, Julian Trevelyan, regarding E Walker, Hector Whistler, Michael Wickham, Gabriel White, R E A Wilson, William Wilson, Billy Winkworth regarding Jan Williamson, G M Young.