Drawings. Visual works.
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Visual works produced by drawing, which is the application of lines on a surface, often paper, by using a pencil, pen, chalk, or some other tracing instrument to focus on the delineation of form rather than the application of color. This term is often defined broadly to refer to computer-generated images as well. (AAT) Include sketches under 'Drawings', but ignore doodles, unless particularly noteworthy. (NLS) In the published catalogues this heading was used for pictures. The heading 'Pictures' was used for all lists of pictures and for descriptions of treatises on pictures. (NLS) .
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Letters and postcards, 1970-1980 and undated, of W.S. Graham to William Featherston, with a few letters of Nessie Graham and others; typescript, carbon typescript and photocopied typescript of draft sections of long poems, 1958 and undated, including `The Dark Dialogues` and `With the Dulle Griet in Canada`; silk screen print portrait of W.S. Graham by William Featherston; and CD and audio-cassette of BBC radio broadcast by W.S. Graham.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13163
Scope and Contents
William Featherston, a Canadian artist, lived and worked in Cornwall during the 1960s. During this period he became a friend of Sydney and Nessie Graham. Featherston returned to Canada in 1971, and the friends corresponded over the next decade. The letters and cards are wide-ranging, intensely personal, and often enriched with Graham`s drawings and doodles. The sections of typescript poetry (some of it carbon typescript and photocopies) include draft passages from `The Dark Dialogues` and...
Dates:
1958, 1970-1980, and undated.
Letters, cards and drawings of W. S. Graham to Margaret "Biddy" Crozier and her daughters; with related printed material.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13531
Scope and Contents
Letters, cards and drawings, 1950-1984 and undated, of William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) to Margaret ‘Biddy’ Crozier and her daughters, Blake and Johanna (`Jo`); with accompanying printed matter.Biddy Crozier occasionally wrote to poets whose work she admired, and this sometimes led to close and supportive friendships. In the words of her daughter Jo, often the poets ‘were delighted to know an intelligent woman with a spare bed in London’. A long-lasting friendship developed...
Dates:
1950-1984 and undated.
Letters of W S Graham and his wife Nessie to Sylvia Thompson; with photographs and artwork.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.13264
Scope and Contents
Sylvia Thompson became friendly with the Grahams in the 1980s. From a nursing background, she became a great source of practical help to the couple during W S Graham`s last years, which were dogged by ill-health. The great affection in which she was held by the Grahams is evident in the letters, and in the various gifts of photographs and drawings.
Dates:
1982-1987.