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Bell, Arthur Clive Heward, 1881 - 1964 (art critic)

 Person

Dates and places

1881-1964 Marlborough School; Trinity College, Cambridge (1899-1902); Bloomsbury; Charleston, Sussex

Sphere of activity

Art critic

Relationships

Younger son of William Bell, wife of Vanessa Bell (nee Stephen), father of Quentin and Julian Bell. Good friend of Roger Fry.

Other information

Publications include: 'Since Cezanne' (1923), 'Landmarks in Ninettenth Century Painting (1927), 'An Account of French Painting' (1931), 'Victor Pasmore' (1945).

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

 File

Assorted comic entertainments and verses concerning members of the 'Bloomsbury Group' and Keynes family, 1925 - 1928

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/15
Scope and Contents

This file includes 'Don't be frightened: a burlesque' [possibly in the hand of Molly MacCarthy], featuring characters called Vanessa, Roger, Bell and Grant.

Dates: 1925 - 1928
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'Bloomsbury burlesque'

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LLK/2/7
Scope and Contents

A photocopied typescript (incomplete) of a play featuring characters called Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry and Duncan Grant.

 File

'Bloomsbury Group' members, 1910 - 1929

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/5/218-22
Scope and Contents

Modern reprints of photographs of members of the 'Bloomsbury Group', including Duncan Grant, Clive Bell, J. M. Keynes, G. Lytton Strachey, Vanessa, Julian and Quentin Bell, and Angelica Garnett. Some of the photographs were taken by Vanessa Bell, and several appear in 'Vanessa Bell's Family Album' (J. V. Norman and Hobhouse Ltd: London, 1981). Dimensions: 21.5 x 16.3 cm. Sleeves 117-21.

Dates: 1910 - 1929
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
 Fonds

Charleston Papers

 Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA
Scope and Contents The collection of Charleston papers contains mainly the correspondence of Clive Bell, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant which had accumulated at their home, Charleston Farm House. In 1965 the papers were sorted by Professor Quentin Bell and were deposited in King's College Library by Professor Bell and Mrs Angelica Garnett. Two sets of photocopies of some of the papers were made by the College at the time of deposit, one set to be kept by the College and the other set by Professor Bell. The set...
Dates: 1869 - 1964
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Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and Clive Bell, 1911 - 1939

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/PP/45/25
Scope and Contents

17 autograph letters, signed, and 3 autograph postcards, signed to J.M. Keynes. 1911-37 and undated.
2 carbon typed letters, signed, from J.M. Keynes. 23 Dec. 1937 and 14 Mar. 1939.
This file also includes 1 autograph letter, signed from Clive Bell to 'Mr. Shaw', [Nov. 1918]; the typescript of a scheme proposing changes to the government's treatment of conscientious objectors, undated; and typescript extracts from D'Alembert's 'Éloge on Montesquieu', undated.

Dates: 1911 - 1939
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Edward Le Bas, Barbara Ghika, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Peter [? surname] and Duncan Grant, 1950 - 1959

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/5/314
Scope and Contents

Photograph of (from left to right) Edward Le Bas, Barbara Ghika, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Peter [unknown surname] and Duncan Grant having tea on the terrace of Hotel Britannia, Menton, France. Dimensions: 11.4 x 18.2 cm. Sleeve 153.

Dates: 1950 - 1959
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
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Issue of 'Das Kunstblatt' including an article by Clive Bell 'Die metaphysische Hypothese', 1919-11

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/CHA/4/8
Scope and Contents

November 1919 issue of 'Das Kunstblatt' including the article by Clive Bell entitled 'Die metaphysische Hypothese'

Dates: Publication: 1919-11
 Item

Letter from Clive Bell to Lydia Lopokova Keynes, 1934

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/LLK/5/26
Scope and Contents

1 autograph letter, signed.

Dates: 1934
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Letters from Clive Bell to JTS, 1933-11-15

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/JTS/2/14
Scope and Contents

2 autograph letters signed.

Dates: 1933-11-15
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Letters from Virginia Woolf to GHWR, 1924 - 1941

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/GHWR/3/454
Scope and Contents

23 autograph letters signed and 6 autograph postcards signed. The file also contains 4 photographs, variously of GHWR, Virginia Woolf, G. Lytton Strachey and Clive Bell and Charleston in 1926, [1920s-30s]. The photo showing Lytton, Virginia and a man in a hat probably GL Dickinson, is also present in Virginia Woolf's Monk's House album 4 p. 3 (where GLD is identified as Yeats). This may have been taken by Ottoline Morrell in June 1923.

Dates: 1924 - 1941
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: The majority of the Rylands Papers are readily available to scholars in the Archive Centre. Record consultation is by appointment. Personal letters of living authors may only be consulted with their written permission. Some material is reserved in view of its sensitivity. There is no access to such material for the time being.
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Listed letters, 1948-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/HB/L/7/b
Scope and Contents This file includes letters from the following (listed in alphabetical order by last name):1. Clive Bell2. Kenneth Clark3. Cyril Connolly4. Douglas Cooper5. C. Day Lewis6. Una Ellis-Fermor7. Frederick Etchells8. E. M. Forster9. Michael Hamburger10. L. C. Knights11. E. V. Knox12. Earl of Lytton13. Sir Eric Maclagan14. John Masefield15. Henry Moore16. Eric Partridge17. William Plomer18. Anthony Powell19. J. B....
Dates: 1948-01
Conditions Governing Access: From the Fonds: HB/M/21 is reserved (not available to researchers) under the Data Protection Act.
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'Lysistrata', 1918

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/7/10
Scope and Contents

Autograph manuscript comic rendering in English by REF of 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes, with annotations and comments on the translation by Clive Bell, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson and 1 unidentified other, and a pencil and wash sketch copy of Carlo Dolci's Martyrdom of St Andrew.

Clive Bell reviewed a translation of the play by B. Buckley Rogers in the Athenaeum Jan. 1912.

Dates: 1918
 Item

Speculations on behalf of Roger Fry, Duncan Grant and the Bells, 1914 - 1920

 Item
Reference Code: GBR/0272/JMK/SE/12
Scope and Contents

Ledger of stock exchange speculations made by J.M. Keynes with a loan from R.E. Fry, with details of transactions made on behalf of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant and a letter from Clive Bell asking for financial advice, June 1918; with related correspondence, 1914-20.

Dates: 1914 - 1920
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'The Connaught Square Catechism or Confessions to Mrs Robert Witt', 1916

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Reference Code: GBR/0272/REF/7/6
Scope and Contents

Compiled by 'RR', 1915. It contains printed questionnaires on the best and worst painters etc. completed, to a greater or lesser degree, by Dolores Courtney, Vanessa Bell, E. de Bergen [otherwise Roald Kristian], Clive Bell, Tancred Borenius, Mary Hutchinson, Nina Hamnett, Simon Bussy, Philippa Strachey, Elspeth Champcommunal, Angela Lavelli and 1 unidentified other.

Dates: 1916