Letters to the art historian Mary Chamot (1899-1993) on her monograph 'Modern Painting in England' (1937) and for an unpublished book on British artists.

Letters to the art historian Mary Chamot (1899-1993) on her monograph 'Modern Painting in England' (1937) and for an unpublished book on British artists. Contains letters from Eileen Agar, Quentin Bell, David Bomberg, Horace Brodzky, Raymond Coxon, Anthony Devas, Barnett Freedman, Laura Knight, Ben Nicholson, Vivian Pitchforth, Margaret Fisher Prout, Kenneth Rowntree, Gilbert Spencer, P Wilson Steer, Alfred Thornton, Geoffrey Tibble, Julian Trevelyan, Carel Weight

Mary Chamot was born in Russia near St. Petersburg. She studied fine art at the St. Petersburg Academy then, after leaving Russia in 1918, at the Slade School of Art. She worked as a relief lecturer at the National Gallery and at the Victoria and Albert Museum (from 1924 to 1939). Skilled in languages, she was Russian interpreter for the Allied Commission in Vienna (1945-49) and an Assistant Keeper at the Tate Gallery from 1949 to 1965. Her other books include `Gontcharova' (Paris, 1972).

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Presented by Mary Chamot in 1971.

Letters from Chamot can be found in the papers of David Bomberg (TGA 878), Alan Durst (TGA 729), Cedric Morris (TGA 8317) and Alfred Yockney (TGA 724) and in Tate Gallery Records.