Painting
Subject
Subject Source: UK Archival Thesaurus
Found in 145 Collections and/or Records:
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"Clementine Churchill": Walter Sickert, 1927, 1959 - 1990
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 5/1/68
Scope and Contents
Papers and correspondence, mainly on the painting lessons given to Winston Churchill by Sickert, including: copies of letters from Sickert to Churchill on painting technique [originals in CSCT 3/115]; a memoir by CSC and later correspondence on her search for a painting by Sickert on his behalf while she was in Venice [Italy], 1927; extracts from Churchill's official biography on his painting, 1926-27, and also on his visit to Canada, 1929; correspondence between CSC and the art critic John...
Dates:
1959 - 1990
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence on pictures in general, WSC/CSC, 1966-05 - 2004-08
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 10/4/1
Scope and Contents
Correspondence on exhibitions, identification and sales of Sir Winston Churchill’s paintings, with correspondents including: 11th Duke of Marlborough [earlier Lord Blandford] (2); Winston Churchill; Sir Roy Redgrave, Director General of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust (2); Grace Hamblin; Sir William Hawthorne, Master of Churchill College, University of Cambridge; Clementine, Lady Churchill; 'Jock' John Colville on the destruction of a number of paintings (2).
Dates:
1966-05 - 2004-08
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Correspondence with Harry S Truman, 1948-11 - 1951-09
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 1/10
Scope and Contents
Correspondence between Churchill and Truman, President of the United States, on subjects including the 1948 American elections and a painting of the Atlas Mountains from Marrakech [Morocco], given to Truman by Churchill. Also includes a letter from Sir Roger Makins [Deputy Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, later 1st Lord Sherfield], passing on Truman's greetings.
Dates:
1948-11 - 1951-09
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed for review.
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Diary, 1956
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/27
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank business; private meetings with Foreign Office officials including Ivone Kirkpatrick; United Nations Association meetings; Suez Canal Company business, including news of crisis and responses to nationalisation by Gamal Abdel Nassar; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's relationship with the government, competition with commercial television,...
Dates:
1956
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1957
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/28
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: private meetings with Ian Jacob at the BBC; National Provincial Bank and Phoenix Assurance Company business; comments on Anthony Eden's resignation and the formation of a new Cabinet; Suez Canal Company business; BBC Board of Governors meetings and policy discussions, including remarks on the BBC's General Advisory Council and relationship with the government, the future of sound broadcasting, and the White Paper on changes to BBC overseas information...
Dates:
1957
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Diary, 1958
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/ACAD 1/29
Scope and Contents
Diary. Subjects covered include: account of a trip to South Africa; English Speaking Union committee meetings; Phoenix Assurance Company business; comments on domestic service and household management; notes on an exhibition including Cadogan's paintings at the Chenil Gallery; accounts of holidays in Portmeirion and the Cotswolds; Cadogan's experience of renting studio space for painting at The Slade; thoughts on reading works of art criticism; and preparations for Christmas. Also includes...
Dates:
1958
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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"Graham Sutherland, a genius rediscovered", BBC documentary, 2003
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/MCHL 12/1/92
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Includes news footage of Winston Churchill during the war, documentaries about him, many featuring MS as an interviewee, footage of Churchill's funeral, interviews with MS about her own books, and various events in which she took part.
Dates:
2003
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Series:
Access copies must be requested in advance.
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Interviews about WSC's health, 1994
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/WCHL 6/81
Scope and Contents
Interviews carried out by John Mather on the subject of WSC's health. Includes transcripts of interviews plus audio recordings (for WCHL 8/81/1-6).
Dates:
1994
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge. Closures are noted in the catalogue.
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Letter from Willy Sax [WSC's paint supplier] (Diektikon, [Switzerland]) to WSC asking for permission for Cunot Amiet [Swiss artist] to use a photograph taken during Sax and Amiet's visit to Chartwell [on 28 or 29 Apr 1951] in an article for Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper, 28 Apr-28 May 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAQ/2/2/30/47-48
Scope and Contents
With a print of the photograph showing WSC and [Cunot Amiet in the studio at Chartwell]. The photograph shows the backs of the two men looking at paintings.
Dates:
28 Apr-28 May 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
The Churchill Papers are made available to researchers using Churchill Archives Centre and worldwide in digital format. The digital edition of the Churchill Papers is published by Bloomsbury Academic and is available online to subscribing institutions at churchillarchive.com. The Churchill archive is freely available in our reading rooms and onsite at Churchill College (via the Churchill College wireless network). Researchers can download images of documents directly from churchillarchive.com and so are encouraged to consider bringing a laptop or other device for this purpose. For conservation reasons, the fragile originals are no longer issued to researchers.
This digital edition is open to researchers unless otherwise marked in the catalogue. Some material has been closed by the Cabinet Office or by Churchill Archives Centre in accordance with data protection legislation.
Found in:
Churchill Archives Centre
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The Papers of Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill
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Acquired papers relating to Sir Winston Churchill, after the end of his first term as Prime Minister
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Public and Political: General
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Public and Political: General: Private and Personal: Correspondence
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Letters from the Queen to Churchill, 1952-08 - 1962-02
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/BRDW V 1/8
Scope and Contents
Letters from Queen Elizabeth II on subjects including: Churchill's correspondence with Harry S Truman, President of the United States, on a joint message to Mohammed Mussadiq [Prime Minister of Iran, also known as Mohammed Mossadeq and Mosaddegh] over the oil dispute with Iran; the Queen's respect for "Bobbety" [5th Lord Salisbury, earlier Lord Cranborne]; her Christmas broadcast (1952); horseracing; the Bermuda Conference (1953); her tour of the Commonwealth (1953-54), particularly her...
Dates:
1952-08 - 1962-02
Conditions Governing Access:
Closed.
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Letters from [Walter] Richard Sickert on painting technique, 1927
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CSCT 3/115
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Subjects covered by the material in this section include: Chartwell; Russia and CSC's visit in 1945; work in WSC's Essex constituency, Wanstead and Woodford; and the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
Dates:
1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
With the exception of the staff wages books in CSCT 9/1, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge.
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Literary: Articles., 1930
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/280
Scope and Contents
Proofs and newspaper cuttings of various articles by WSC for the Sunday Chronicle: "With The Grenadiers" on WSC's time on the Western Front with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, meetings with [1st Lord Ypres, earlier] Sir John French and conditions in the trenches; an article about George Bernard Shaw in which WSC describes his relationship with Shaw and Shaw's career; "A Man's Hobbies" on WSC's pastimes including painting and "Men Who Change Their Minds" on politicians who alter their...
Dates:
1930
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles: Amalgamated Press., Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/501
Scope and Contents
Proofs, press cuttings and correspondence on the following articles by WSC: "Do Bye-Elections Count?" discounting the East Fulham bye-election, stating the differences between bye-elections and general elections and discussing the divisions in the Conservative Party; "Defence not Defiance" on the current strength of the country; "How we made the Irish treaty" in defence of the Irish Settlement [1922] and WSC's meetings with Michael Collins; "Will the League survive?" on the crisis facing the...
Dates:
Jan 1934 - Aug 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Articles: Daily Mail., Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/500
Scope and Contents
Annotated proofs and press cuttings of the following articles by WSC: "Clive of India" on the achievements of Robert Clive; "B-P" on 1st Lord Baden-Powell; "The Greatest Half-Hour in our History" on the Magna Carta; "This Year's Royal Academy is Exhilarating" on the 1934 exhibition; "Great Deeds that gave us the Empire" celebrating Empire Day; "How I would procure peace" on the futility of the current foreign policy and need to rearm; "August 4, 1914" on the beginning of the First World War...
Dates:
Feb 1934 - Sep 1934
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Correspondence., 26 Jun 1923 - 11 Dec 1925
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/201
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Wynford Dewhurst on his gift of a sketch to WSC (2); H Greenough Smith (3) of the Strand Magazine on subjects including WSC's articles about painting; Vice Admiral Sir Thomas Jackson about his "target book" which WSC had used to research the subject of 12 inch guns for "The World Crisis"; A E Gloyn Cox (2); Sir Walter Lamb [Secretary of the Royal Academy] about a photograph of WSC; Thornton Butterworth on the publication of Volume 3 of "The World Crisis" (2).Other...
Dates:
26 Jun 1923 - 11 Dec 1925
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence concerning "Painting as a Pastime"., Mar 1947 - Apr 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/40
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Brian Batsford, director of B T Batsford Limited; representatives of Odhams Press Limited particularly book department manager C L Shard and [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (45); representatives of McGraw-Hill Publishing Company Limited (7); representatives of Fladgate and Company particularly Anthony Moir [WSC's solicitor] (20); John Benn, Chairman of Ernest Benn Limited (3); Count Michael de la Bedoyere, editor of the Catholic Herald,...
Dates:
Mar 1947 - Apr 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on publishing WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), mainly with representatives of Time-Life International, including Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine], Walter Graebner [London representative], Andrew Heiskell [publisher], Monica Owen Horne, Constance Babbington-Smith, and Renee Harmer., Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/15A-C
Scope and Contents
Other correspondents include: Henry Laughlin [President of Houghton Mifflin Company, publishers] (2); William Edwards, [Assistant Director] Federation of British Industries; Anthony Moir of Fladgate and Company [WSC's solicitor]. Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from: secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow], Chips Gemmell, Lettice Marston [later Lettice Shillingford], Elizabeth Gilliatt, Grace Hamblin, Jane Portal [later Lady Williams of Elvel], Anne Hipwell, and...
Dates:
Aug 1945 - Jan 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence on "Thoughts and Adventures"., Jan 1946 - Feb 1951
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/36
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Odhams Press Limited including [William] Surrey Dane [Vice-Chairman and Managerial Consultant] (7). Also includes notes and copies of correspondence from secretaries Jo Sturdee ("N S") [later Lady Onslow] and Kathleen Hill.Subjects covered by the file include: Danish rights and the French and Swedish editions; requests for permission to reprint extracts from the book including passages on the bible and painting.Also includes: copy of Practical...
Dates:
Jan 1946 - Feb 1951
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: correspondence with consultants (mainly volumes 5 and 6) and others on WSC's war memoirs ("The Second World War"), G-Z., Feb 1947 - Jul 1953
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/25A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Air Chief Marshal Sir Guy Garrod (3); Denis Kelly [WSC's literary assistant] (19); Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Pownall (21); William Deakin (5); General 1st Lord Ismay (7); Prime Minister's Private Secretary John Colville (4); Henry Luce [owner and editor of Time Magazine] (28); Daniel Longwell [editor of Life Magazine] (2); Walter Graebner [London representative of Time-Life International]; Charles Wood [WSC's literary assistant] (64); Arthur Hayward [Chief Editor],...
Dates:
Feb 1947 - Jul 1953
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: MacMillan and Company Limited: business correspondence., 16 Jan 1941 - 02 Dec 1941
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/686
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: Daniel MacMillan [Chairman and Managing Director], and Lovat Dickson, [Director] of MacMillan (8); Brendan Bracken.Subjects include: an agreement with MacMillan to publish WSC's works where he owns the copyright; matters arising from the liquidation of Thornton Butterworth Limited; permission to quote extracts from WSC's works; WSC's United States royalties and an American law suit; a new edition of "Thoughts and Adventures"; MacMillan re-issuing other works by...
Dates:
16 Jan 1941 - 02 Dec 1941
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: miscellaneous correspondence., Apr 1940 - Sep 1946
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHUR 4/4A-B
Scope and Contents
Correspondents include: representatives of Cassell and Company Limited (5); Colin Coote, [Managing Editor] of the Daily Telegraph, on producing an anthology of WSC's aphorisms (2); Patrick Kinna (Foreign Office); [William] Surrey Dane [on behalf of Odhams Press Limited] (4); Charles Eade, [Editor] of the Sunday Dispatch, on discussing an idea for a book (3); General Jacob Devers on Ralph Ingersoll's "Top Secret"; George Harvie Watt [WSC's Parliamentary Private Secretary until 1945]; Sir...
Dates:
Apr 1940 - Sep 1946
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "My Life", News of the World: copy., Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/522A-B
Scope and Contents
Carbon copies of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: "My Life", News of the World": proofs., Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/523A-B
Scope and Contents
Galley proofs of the following articles by WSC: "My Life" [in 12 parts]: "Looking Back on Sixty Years" on WSC's childhood, education and time at Sandhurst; "Frontier Days in India" on WSC's expedition to India with the 4th Hussars, and the frontier risings of 1897; "Charge of the 21st Lancers" on the battle of Omdurman and the Sudan Campaign; "Taken Prisoner by the Boers" on WSC as a war correspondent in South Africa; "My Escape from Pretoria"; "My Entry into Politics" on writing Lord...
Dates:
Jan 1935 - Mar 1935
Conditions Governing Access:
Open
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Literary: Sunday Dispatch articles by WSC: 3., Dec 1939
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/649
Scope and Contents
Includes cuttings from the Sunday Dispatch for: "The Most Thrilling Days I Have Ever Lived" on his experiences as First Lord of the Admiralty, on board the Enchantress, visiting the British Naval Fleet, his threat to resign, and the decision to order the Fleet to its war stations; "With the Kaiser on Parade" on his experiences as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies, viewing the manoeuvres of the German Army in 1906, WSC's impressions of its strength, and his meeting with Young Turks in...
Dates:
Dec 1939
Conditions Governing Access:
Open.
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Literary: "Thoughts and Adventures."., 1932
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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 8/319
Scope and Contents
Proofs and offprints of WSC's articles which were collectively published as "Thoughts and Adventures" including: "Winston Churchill described the Battle of Sidney Street" on his actions as Home Secretary; "In the air" on WSC's personal experiences of flying and his encouragement of the development of military aviation while First Lord of the Admiralty; "My own spy story" on espionage during World War I and WSC's experiences on the Western Front; "Plugstreet" on his posting to Ploegsteert...
Dates:
1932
Conditions Governing Access:
Open