Together with statements of account December 1943-November 1944. Includes four letters on behalf of Tooth's from E.J. Ledger, H.J. Cox and two unknown writers. The majority of the letters concern sales, office difficulties and the arrival of new works. Other topics mentioned include exhibitions; general (TGA 7050/1446, 1454, 1461), at the Redfern Gallery (TGA 7050/1442, 1476), at the Leicester Galleries (TGA 7050/1442, 1461-62, 1476), the Valentin/Buchholz exhibition (TGA 7050/1449-50, 1455-56, 1461-62, 1477), and a 'French' exhibition (TGA 7050/1471); a 'Royal purchase' (TGA 7050/1442, 1450); framing works (TGA 7050/1443, 1453-54); photographing works (TGA 7050/1454, 1463); the death of E.J. Ledger (TGA 7050/1445); copyright and reproduction rights (TGA 7050/1459-60, 1465); Jill Craigie and her film 'Out of Chaos' (TGA 7050/1469, 1471, 1476); the bombing of London and the effect on the business (TGA 7050/1467, 1469, 1476); and a plea to buy 'The Flight of the Magnolia' together with a letter from Kathleen Laurie the prospective buyer (TGA 7050/1482, 1484-86). Other paintings and drawings referred to include: 'Landscape of the Vale to the South' and 'Chesil Bank, Abbotsbury' (TGA 7050/1441), 'Garden Threshold' (TGA 7050/1445), 'Two Serpents' and 'Cerne Giant' (TGA 7050/1446), 'Summer Solstice' (TGA 7050/1447, 1459, 1461-63, 1476), 'Voyages of the Moon' (TGA 7050/1447-48, 1450), 'Sunflower and Sun' (TGA 7050/1447), 'Landscape of the Puff Balls' (TGA 7050/1448), 'Landscape of the Moon's First Phase' (TGA 7050/1450, 1454), 'February Landscape' (TGA 7050/1450), 'Orchard at Madams' (TGA 7050/1454), 'Landscape of the Wittenham Woods' (TGA 7050/1454), 'Totems', 'Poised Objects', 'Lunar Rainbow', and 'Wood on the Hill' (TGA 7050/1456), 'Madamite Moon' (TGA 7050/1481), 'Winter Country' (TGA 7050/1458), 'Monster Shore' (TGA 7050/1459), 'Minotaur' (TGA 7050/1456, 1461), 'Dead Spring', 'Nocturnal Landscape', 'Archer Overthrown', and 'Circle of the Monoliths' (TGA 7050/1461), 'Farewell' (TGA 7050/1472, 1485), 'Cumulus Head' (TGA 7050/1472, 1477), 'Landscape of the British Museum' and 'Nocturnal Flowers' (TGA 7050/1464), 'Design of Trees, Russell Square' (TGA 7050/1464, 1467). 'Dawn Flowers' (TGA 7050/1467, 1474, 1478), 'Landscape of the Crescent Moon' (TGA 7050/1468, 1478). 'Dymchurch Steps' (TGA 7050/1469, 1477, 1481, 1484), 'Flight of the Magnolia' and 'Cloud of Cuckoo's Nest' (TGA 7050/1472), 'Encounter of Two Objects' (TGA 7050/1477), 'Wooded Landscape' and 'Metamorphosis 1937' (TGA 7050/1478), 'Sunset Flower' and 'Gardening of the Madamites' (TGAS 7050/1484). TGA 7050/1456 includews a draft telegram from Paul Nash to the Buchholz Gallery, and TGA 7050/1484 and 1481 are bloodstained.
Thirty-seven letters from Dudley (Tooth), Arthur Tooth and Sons Ltd, to Paul Nash.
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- Reference
- GB 70 TGA 7050/1441-1488
- Dates of Creation
- January - December 1944
- Physical Description
- 57 pieces