Mervyn Levy Papers

Scope and Content

Drafts, workbooks and photographs regarding Mervyn Levy's two books, 'The paintings of L.S. Lowry' (1975) and 'The Drawings of L.S. Lowry (1976); notebook, shooting script and papers relating to the production of Levy's BBC television film on L.S. Lowry 1976; galley proofs and catalogue written for the Royal Academy of Arts retrospective of the work of L.S. Lowry held in their galleries in 1976; miscellaneous correspondence relating to the works of L.S. Lowry 1974 and the deposit of the papers by Levy at University of Wales Swansea in 1979; 'L.S. Lowry, a selection of paintings' (catalogue of exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery, London) 1975.

Administrative / Biographical History

Mervyn Levy of Swansea was an art student at Swansea School of Art in the late 1920s. He later studied the work of the painter L.S. Lowry and the material relates to his researches and publications in this field during the 1970s.

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