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Papers of Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden

1890s–1990s

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The collection consists of both professional and personal papers with correspondence, photographs, research notes and writings.

The correspondence includes correspondence with artists and figures in the art history world. Particularly notable are 70 letters from Barbara Hepworth (1939-1954), 161 letters from Ben Nicholson (1939-1969) and correspondence relating to Ramsden's writings on contemporary and Renaissance art and sculpture.

The photographs are mainly of sculpture, Renaissance art and plates from Ramsden's publications although there are also personal photographs of Margot Eates, E.H. Ramsden, their families and friends as well as photographs of 'found objects', photo-collages and object collages by Paul Nash.

There are research notes and drafts of Ramsden's writings on contemporary art (including articles on Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore) and Renaissance art as well as papers relating to 'Eidos', the arts journal that Eates and Ramsden founded and edited in 1950.

There are also personal and family papers, correspondence and photographs and papers relating to Margot Eates' archeological and museum career Ruth Clark's collection of Paul and John Nash works as Margot Eates was a friend of Ruth Clark's and tasked with the disposal of her Nash collection.

Collection Owners
Hartley Ramsden 1904 – 1993
Margot Eates 1913 – 1994
Collection
Tate Archive
Acquisition
Letters from Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth as well as magazines and a file on modern sculpture and painting were presented to Tate Archive by Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden, May 1993 in order to assist with research for Tate's exhibition on Ben Nicholson. A further 10 boxes of personal papers were presented by Brian Griffin and Jennifer Spark, Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden's executors in 1995. A further two boxes and two box files of papers relating to Ramsden's writing was presented by her literary executor Angela Sutton in 1996.
Reference
TGA 9310

70 objects in this collection

  • Papers of Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden

    70 Objects

    • Professional Correspondence

      70 Objects

Title
Papers of Margot Eates and E.H. Ramsden
Date
1890s–1990s
Description
The collection consists of both professional and personal papers with correspondence, photographs, research notes and writings.

The correspondence includes correspondence with artists and figures in the art history world. Particularly notable are 70 letters from Barbara Hepworth (1939-1954), 161 letters from Ben Nicholson (1939-1969) and correspondence relating to Ramsden's writings on contemporary and Renaissance art and sculpture.

The photographs are mainly of sculpture, Renaissance art and plates from Ramsden's publications although there are also personal photographs of Margot Eates, E.H. Ramsden, their families and friends as well as photographs of 'found objects', photo-collages and object collages by Paul Nash.

There are research notes and drafts of Ramsden's writings on contemporary art (including articles on Paul Nash, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Henry Moore) and Renaissance art as well as papers relating to 'Eidos', the arts journal that Eates and Ramsden founded and edited in 1950.

There are also personal and family papers, correspondence and photographs and papers relating to Margot Eates' archeological and museum career Ruth Clark's collection of Paul and John Nash works as Margot Eates was a friend of Ruth Clark's and tasked with the disposal of her Nash collection.
Reference
TGA 9310

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Letter from Barbara Hepworth, mentioning a photograph of ‘Conoid Sphere & Hollow’

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
12 May [1939]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to ‘Mr Ramsden’ enclosing a photograph

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[May 1939]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth praising Ramsden’s book (‘An Introduction to Modern Art’)

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
7 May [1940]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden about [J.R] Marcus Brumwell

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[June 1941]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth congratulating [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden on an article in ‘World Review’

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
25 June 1941
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth thanking [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden for money

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[August 1941]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to Margot Eates promising to sell her a drawing

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Margot Eates
[November 1941]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden about ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
8 January 1942
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth discussing [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden’s article about Herbert Read

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[May 1942]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.]Hartley Ramsden promising to send items for an exhibition

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.March 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden promising to send the sculpture tomorrow

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.March 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth confirming that she has sent the drawings and sculptures

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.March 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth mentioning that she will be exhibiting with Paul Nash

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.March 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden discussing the development of her work

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[March–April 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden about influences in the development of her work

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
4 April 1943
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth justifying her choice of photographs for Ramsden’s article

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
28 April [1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth about the choice of photographs for [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden’s article

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.April–May 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden praising Ramsden’s article for ‘Horizon’

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.May–June 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden about her article in ‘Horizon’

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[June 1943]
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Letter from Barbara Hepworth to [E.H.] Hartley Ramsden about her article in Horizon

Dame Barbara Hepworth, recipient: Hartley Ramsden
[c.June 1943]
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