File 2006 01 546 - Correspondence from Sheila Watson regarding artscanada publication

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CA ON00389 F6-4-2006 01 546

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Correspondence from Sheila Watson regarding artscanada publication

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  • May 24, 1967 - December 13, 1967 (Creation)

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1 cm of textual records
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(1909-1998)

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File consists of copies of typed correspondence from Watson addressed to various book sellers, publishers, art galleries, art dealers and individuals, and their responses to Watson's requests for permission to publish images and obtain photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings by Wyndham Lewis which she hoped to use in her issue of artscanada dedicated to the painter. The file also includes a flexi disc featuring a reading by Wyndham Lewis and thoughts by Marshall McLuhan, which accompanied the magazine issue. Includes responses from: Agenda; The Art Gallery of Kelvingrove (Glasgow, Scotland); The Arts Council of Great Britain; The City Art Gallery (Leeds, England); David Higham Associates (London, England); Faber and Faber Publishing; George Eastman House (Rochester, NY); Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries; J. Howard Woolmer Books (New York, NY); Anne Wyndham Lewis; the Manchester City Art Gallery; Methuen & Co; Mr. Walter Michel; Naomi Mitchison; Pheonix Book Shop (New York, NY); Mrs. Douglas Stewart; The Tate Gallery (London, England); The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, England), and Barry Lord, editor of artscanda.

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      No publication of this material, in whole or in part, without the permission of the Literary Executor. No reproduction of this material without permission of the Archivist.

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      Revised by E Robinson, 30 March 2022.

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