Duncan Grant

Standard Name: Grant, Duncan

Connections

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Textual Production Dora Carrington
Carrington took on other work for the Press : she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
Selected by Roger Fry , Carrington 's Tulips was shown at the Grosvenor Galleries ' Nameless Exhibition of Modern British Painting.
At this exhibition, Henry Tonks (who had supervised both Carrington and Vanessa Bell
Residence Virginia Woolf
Virginia was keen to regain access to the amenities of London—music, the British Museum , social life (her delight in parties, she wrote, was a piece of jewellery I inherit from my mother)
Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press.
2: 250
Occupation Roger Fry
At 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, London, founder RF opened the Omega Workshops , an artists' group whose participants included Wyndham Lewis , Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant (both co-directors), and Dora Carrington .
Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File.
195
Leisure and Society Rosamond Lehmann
Stephen Spender thought RLone of the most beautiful women of her generation.
Lehmann, Rosamond. Rosamond Lehmann’s Album. Chatto and Windus.
51
Among the several artists who portrayed her (Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant in paint, Cecil Beaton in photographs), her husband...
Leisure and Society Iris Tree
IT was a natural bohemian. She smoked, and was one of the first girls to bob her hair (in 1913, cutting off her long plait on a train and leaving it behind on the seat)...
Leisure and Society Dorothy Wellesley
She had the dining room at Penns decorated by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant . They did three big wall panels each, plus designing furniture. The work was finished in 1931.
Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press.
4: 156
While not...
Leisure and Society Virginia Woolf
With Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant , Guy Ridley , and Anthony Buxton , she toured the premier battleship HMS Dreadnought impersonating the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Virginia was disguised as Prince Mendax (Latin...
Friends, Associates Hope Mirrlees
After her return from Paris, HM was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien and T. S. Eliot , Lytton Strachey , Molly and Desmond MacCarthy , Duncan Grant ,...
Friends, Associates Mary Agnes Hamilton
One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
74
MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...
Friends, Associates Rosamond Lehmann
While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...
Friends, Associates Ling Shuhua
The artists came together at this time: Bell and Duncan Grant added small pieces to LS's friendship scroll, and LS painted some of Quentin Bell 's ceramics. LS briefly met Arthur Waley via Vanessa Bell
Friends, Associates Iris Tree
IT became acquainted with members of Bloomsbury around the time she attended the Slade School of Art . Vanessa Bell , Duncan Grant , and Roger Fry all painted portraits of her, and she wore...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...
Friends, Associates Virginia Woolf
The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes

Timeline

December 1913: The Society of Scottish Artists exhibited...

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December 1913

The Society of Scottish Artists exhibited post-Impressionist works by Cézanne , Gauguin , Matisse and Van Gogh , as well as Duncan Grant and John Duncan Fergusson .

From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...

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From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

1930: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the...

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1930

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant decorated the dining-room at Penns-in-the-Rocks, Withyham, Sussex, for Lady Gerald Wellesley (the poet Dorothy Wellesley).

1932: Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned...

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1932

Art historian Kenneth Clark commissioned from the Omega Workshops a set of dinner plates painted by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant bearing portrait heads of famous women, including Elizabeth I and other queens, Greta Garbo

July 1935: Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting...

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July 1935

Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant were painting wall-panels for a new Cunard transatlantic liner, the Queen Mary.

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