Correspondence from David Baxandall, Curator/Director, Manchester City Art Gallery, and Margaret Nash.

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 70 TGA 7050/2866-2898
  • Dates of Creation
      1948 - 1950
  • Physical Description
      34 pieces

Scope and Content

Includes four letters from S.D. Cleveland, Deputy Director, and one from I.E. Scholes, Secretary, during Baxandalls absence. The correspondence concerns the Gallery's purchase of 'Nocturnal Landscape' from Margaret (TGA 7050/2866-77) and of 'Sunrise Landscape' (TGA 7050/2894-5). Also copyright for reproductions (TGA 7050/2871-6, 2879, 2894-8); sales of 'Aerial Flowers' (TGA 7050/2876, 2879-80, 1884-6 including a 'cheque advice' from the Treasurer's Department); the Paul Nash Trust and trustees (TGA 7050/2873, 2880); the Rutherston Loan Collection and a similar proposal for Paul Nash (TGA 7050/2580-4); the tour of the Paul Nash Memorial Exhibition (TGA 7050/2884-5); and reproductions of 'Sandling Park' (TGA 7050/2887-93, 2895). Other paintings mentioned include 'The Archer Overthrown' (TGA 7050/2866-67). TGA 7050/2879a and 2887 feature annotations by Margaret Nash.