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- 1956-1958, 1961 (Creation)
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File of Group 56 executive committee member Eric Malthouse, comprising largely correspondence, 1956-1957, 1961 and undated, regarding 56 Group membership (including letters of membership acceptance addressed to Eric Malthouse from Robert (Bob) Hunter, Ernest Zobole, Arthur Giardelli and John Wright and a letter rejecting membership from artist and writer Brenda Chamberlain); together with Group manifesto of August 1956 and material relating to 56 Group exhibitions held in 1957 at Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, and Tenby Civic Centre. An undated letter to Group chairman Eric [Malthouse] from Bob [Robert Hunter] includes a humorous interpretation of the latter's relinquishing of his secretarial role in 1961.
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Two folios torn and fragile.