| Description | The Applied Arts series includes correspondence and records of art purchases involving resident and associated craftsmen including Bernard Leach; and sculptors, including Willi Soukop and Henry Moore.
The Henry Moore folder contains 101 pieces of correspondence, receipts for purchases, records of loans, and letters between Dorothy Elmhirst, Henry Moore, Ralph Beyer, Maurice Ash, and their representatives, including Peter Cox. There is also considerable secondary information about Henry Moore.
Willi Soukop correspondence includes exchanges of letters between Soukop and the Elmhirsts, records of an early lecture on sculpture given by Soukop, and biographical information. There is also a pencil sketch by Soukop of his swan designs for the Swan Fountain in the Gardens at Dartington. Later correspondence includes exchanges of letters and a record of an interview with Willi Soukop in the 1990s, about his time at Dartington Hall.
Also included in the series are administrative records of various Dartington art exhibitions, exhibition posters, and publicity material including exhibition catalogues, from 1926 to 1967. Exhibitions include ground-breaking comparative presentations of early Asian ceramics and modern studio pottery, exhibitions of Devon craft (Made in Devon), and West African stoneware pottery.
Correspondence with other artists and craftsmen includes Sam Haile, Marianne de Trey, (including a report on a visit made to Mauritius in April 1973 by Marianne Haile and Emily Whitby on behalf of the Dartington Hall Trustees); Hein Heckroth; puppeteer Richard Odlin; potter Bernard Forrester; Robin Tanner; Elizabeth Peacock; Susan Bosence; David Leach; Michael Cardew; Ralph Beyer. There is secondary source material on potter Lucie Rie.
Correspondence with galleries, institutions and individuals re loans and exhibitions includes: Marlborough Fine Art; the Redfern Gallery; the British Council; the Arts Council of Great Britain; Hayward Gallery; Royal Academy of Arts; Norman Rosenthal and George Wingfield Digby.
Also of interest are records of the 1952 International Conference of Craftsmen in Pottery and Textiles held at Dartington.
There are four boxes of records of the potter Bernard Leach, including a substantial quantity of correspondence with the potter, records of exhibitions of his work and a journal written by Leach in 1953. Also correspondence re films by Bernard Leach made during trips to Japan and Korea in 1934-1935 and restored by Marty Gross Film Productions Inc.
The series concludes with bookbinding and printmaking and books produced by these departments in more recent years.. |