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• Eric Kennington Part 1

  part of "Eric Kennington" (war artists archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1939-11-30

  Kennington met with Dickey as early as December 1939 and expressed his views about the scheme, reported by Dickey at (2). Kennington felt that official artists should be predominantly younger men, of service age and experience. He reported that in the...

• Storage and Exhibition of Works at the National Gallery

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1940-05-28

  The part files are as follows: /1/29/1 = 28 May 1940 - 13 Aug 1943 /1/29/2 = 05 Jan - 09 Jun 1943 The file concerns arrangements for, and administration of, exhibitions of war pictures at the National Gallery. The first show opened to the public on 3...

• Reproductions of Eric Kennington's Work

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1941-04-03

  Kennington's brother, W O Kennington, commissioned an article about EK's portraits of airmen. Attempts were made to place this in an American publication such as 'Life', without success. W O Kennington subsequently requested permission to publish the...

• Suggestion for a Book of Reproductions of Mr Kennington's portraits of airmen, to be issued by the H M Stationery Office

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1941-02-20

  Papers regarding a proposal to publish some of Eric Kennington's portraits of airmen. Although the file does not mention any particular publication, it refers to Oxford University Press, to Ronald Storrs and to J B Priestley. Two books in the library...

• British Artists at the Front

  part of "First World War Art Archive" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1917-10-16

  Correspondence file relating to the publication of the 'British Artists at the Front' series, together with copies of volumes 1-4.

• Exhibition of War Artists Work in the USSR

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1942-01-07

  An exhibition of war artists pictures was proposed in early 1942 and over the next eighteen months, the scheme was dropped and revived in various forms, including an idea for selections from the Firemen Artists and Civil Defence Artists' exhibitions....

• Exhibition of Eric Kennington's Pictures in the USA

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1942-09-12

  Correspondence regarding a proposed exhibition of Kennington's airmen portraits, to be sent to America. The WAAC had not been consulted about this exhibition and there was some discussion over how it had arisen. The idea was eventually dropped.

• British Artists at the Front

  part of "British Artists at the Front" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1917-10-16

  Correspondence relating to the publication of 'British Artists at the Front', including copy correspondence regarding the terms of agreement with Country Life, who published the works; the decision to print only four volumes instead of the planned five,...

• British Artists at the Front: Part Four, Eric Kennington

  part of "British Artists at the Front" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1918-01-01

  With introduction by Campbell Dodgson and CE Montague. Tear, bottom left corner

• War Artists Biographical Material

  part of "Subject files" (war artist archive) Made by: Ministry of Information 1940-01-01

  This file comprises letters and related papers from artists, giving biographical information. The artists are indexed below. Also some related papers, regarding the collating of the information, and some biographical summaries produced by the WAAC.