Identity area
Reference code
Title
Date(s)
- 2005-2008 (Creation)
Level of description
Ffeil / File
Extent and medium
1 small box (0.009 m³)
Context area
Name of creator
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Material relating to the Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW), including: material relating to the publication in July 2008 of a portfolio of commissioned essays and a set of original prints to celebrate CASW's seventieth anniversary (including preliminary proposals and discussions, copies of commissioned essays on contributing artists, signed contributor contracts, invoices and accounts, minutes of meetings and related correspondence); annual reports; constitution; exhibition programmes and details of private viewings; details of forthcoming Gwasg Gregynog Press publications; correspondence; minutes of meetings; and newsletter.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
70th anniversary portfolio material kept in marked folder.
Dated correspondence arranged chronologically. Undated items kept at rear of dated sequence.
Minutes of meetings arranged chronologically.
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
Script of material
Language and script notes
Some items bilingual (English/Welsh / Welsh/English).
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
Allied materials area
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related units of description
Notes area
Note
The Contemporary Art Society for Wales (CASW) was established during the 1930s by, amongst others, Welsh-born painter Augustus John and Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden of Chirk Castle, a distinguished art collector and President of the Contemporary Art Society, with the inaugural meeting of the Society taking place in 1937. Its Constitution states that '[t]he objects of the Society shall be to foster and promote the maintenance, improvement and development of artistic taste and the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the arts among the people of Wales ...'. (https://casw.org.uk/about-the-society/)
Alternative identifier(s)
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- Contemporary Art Society for Wales (Subject)