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Kyffin Williams Archive File
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European views

The views of Paris are modern contact prints (4688/21-31) from 8.5 x 6 cm film negatives dating from the mid 1950s. They include views of the Place de la Concorde, Eiffel Tower, bridges on the Seine, Arc d'Triomphe, Fontainebleau, Versailles and others. Most views of other places remain unidentified. Included are a race meeting, an indoor arena, postcards of Lurgan (2) and Berlin (1).

Exhibition catalogues,

Catalogues and cards, 1945-2005, relating to exhibitions by various artists. A catalogue of an Eleri Mills exhibition held at the Thackeray Gallery, 2005, contains a foreword by Kyffin Williams; and a booklet, 1990, on Leo Davy includes a reference to him.

Exhibition sales,

Price lists and accounts of sales of works exhibited at the Thackeray and Albany Galleries, 1981-2003, noting the title, medium, dimension and price of items.

Exhibitions, Book launches, etc

115 col photos of JKW in his professional capacity at exhibition openings, broadcasts & book launches etc. Included are a series of photographs by Bernard Mitchell documenting the launch of 'The Land & The Sea' at the National Library of Wales in 1998; 1987 retrospective at Oriel Mostyn; launch of 'A Wider Sky' in 1991; exhibition at Albany Gallery ca.1990 alongside sculptures of Geoffrey Dashwood; exhibition at Thackeray Gallery May 1998 (nos. 4696/16-25)

NB one photo CD of his Patagonia exhibition in Oriel Davies (2005) containing 79 images has been passed to Robert Evans.

Family snapshots & portraits

135 personal photographs (121 b&w) in the form of loose C20th and C19th photographs of family and friends of JKW. Many are unidentified.

Group exhibitions,

Catalogues, with some invitations to private viewings, of various group exhibitions which include works by Kyffin Williams, 1950-2006.

Henry Inglis Wynne Williams,

Papers, 1899-1951, relating to Kyffin Williams's father, Henry Inglis Wynne Williams, mostly comprising letters addressed to him, 1899-1941; and including copies, 1951, of his death certificate; and an inventory and valuation of the contents of the family's home Plas Gwyn, Porthmadog, 1930.

Williams, Henry Inglis Wynne, 1870-1942.

Highgate School,

Papers, 1947-2000, relating to Highgate School, including school lists, 1968 and 1973, containing notes in Kyffin Williams's hand, with an ink sketch on the back cover of the 1968 list; a copy of The Cholmeleian, 1973, with tributes on his retirement as Art Master; and a cutting from The Cholmeleian, 2000, referring to Kyffin Williams.

Highgate School

Honours,

Papers, 1973-1999 (with gaps), relating to Honorary Degrees, Honorary Fellowships, and a Knighthood conferred on Kyffin Williams, including Addresses of Presentation, with a signed typescript of Professor Bedwyr Lewis Jones's presentation, 1991.

Jones, Bedwyr Lewis.

Income and expenditure,

Papers, 2000-2001 (predominantly 2001), in an envelope marked 'VAT ¼ June 2001', including records regarding sales of pictures, and cheque stubs.

Invitations,

Invitations, 1950-2006, mainly to private viewings of exhibitions of the work of various artists; some invitations to exhibition openings are accompanied by catalogues.

Journal : 1990,

Entries contained in black bound W H Smith desk diary, and several continue in a separate A4 refill pad. Endpieces are noted in a further writing pad which also contains entries for 1991.

Journal : 1991,

Entries contained in black bound Letts desk diary, some continue in a separate A4 refill pad.

Journal : 1992,

Entries contained in black bound Plan-a-Day desk diary, some continue in a separate A4 refill pad.

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