Published Wilenski File II

  • This material is held at
  • Reference
      GB 133 RHW/2/5
  • Dates of Creation
      27 Sep 1913-Feb 1946
  • Physical Description
      1 file; 97 pages.  Papers require Melinex sleeves: edges folded and damaged. Some foxing.

Scope and Content

  • 1-4: Four cuttings from the Athenæum relating to fine art book reviews, 27 September 1913–3 January 1914, 4 pages.
  • 5: Lecture notes relating to Matisse and Picasso, Manchester, February 1946, 16 pages.
  • 6–18: Cuttings of articles by Wilenski in the Evening Standard, covering various topics such as Paul Cézanne, photography and art, the New English Art Club, Russian art, design in advertisements, Sir Charles Holmes (some duplicates), 1925 and earlier.
  • 19: News cutting of an article by Wilenski in the Manchester Evening News, relating to bulldogs, 4 June 1937, 1 page.
  • 20: News cutting of an article by Wilenski in the Evening Standard, relating to St Francis in art, 28 September 1926, 1 page.
  • 21: Envelope containing a news cutting by Wilenski from the Evening Standard.
  • 22–61: Large bundle of papers with cover page ‘Evening Standard 1924-1925’. Contains envelope of Wilenski article, 2 December 1924. Articles cover topics such as Eric Kennington’s war memorial work; Envelope of Wilenski article cutting about ‘Goupil Salon’, with duplicate; Murillo; Art & Advertising; the Paris Exhibition; a defence of art critics, with duplicate; envelope of Wilenski article on Masters such as Raphael and Botticelli priceless works; the Royal Academy; watchmaker A.J. Grossman; Wilenski's opinions on ‘Woman and the Artist’, with duplicate; ‘New English Art Club’, with duplicate; George William Bissill; Sir John Lavery; C.R.W. Nevinson; Paul Cézanne; John Singer Sargent; English Art; Jacob Epstein.
  • 62: Typescript entitled ‘On Taking Up Art’, 10 September 1926, revised November 1930, 7 pages.
  • 63: News cutting of an article by Wilenski in the Evening Standard, entitled ‘Fortune in Child Pictures', discussing ‘Blue Boy’ and rivals, 27 September 1926.
  • 64: St Francis in the Art article, with duplicate, n.d.
  • 65: News cutting entitled ‘Art promise at Eleven’, n.d.
  • 66: News cutting entitled ‘When crudeness is beautiful’, n.d.
  • 67: News cutting entitled ‘Outspoken book by ‘Lawrence of Arabia’, 19 October 1926.
  • 68: News cutting entitled ‘Academy Portraits’, 12 November 1926.
  • 69: News cutting by Wilenski entitled ‘Art and the Philistines’, 3 December 1926.
  • 70: Magazine cutting by Wilenski entitled ‘William Hogarth’, with duplicate, n.d.
  • 71: News cutting from the English Review entitled ‘The Artist in Social Life’, December 1935.

Former reference: Box 2, File 17.