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Material relating to the 56 Group's first exhibition, held at Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, June 1957, and the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, July-August 1957, comprising draft and printed invitations to private viewings, visitors' book, price lists for exhibited works, quotations and invoices, and correspondence.

Correspondence and other material, 1956-1957, largely relating to 56 Group exhibitions which took place in 1957 at Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, and Tenby Civic Centre.

Material relating to the 56 Group exhibition held at Tenby Civic Centre, August 1957, as part of their first exhibition tour, comprising a list of exhibiting artists and their works and miscellaneous memoranda.

Material relating to the 56 Group exhibition held at Turner House, Penarth, April-June 1958, including exhibition catalogue (which folds out as poster), list of exhibitors and works, list of invitees to private viewing, list of works sold, printed copy of Arts News and Review, correspondence and other related material.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Welsh Committee of the Arts Council of Great Britain tour exhibitions which took place at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff and the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea, 1960, comprising correspondence, including circular letters, between Group representatives and other members and the Arts Council of Great Britain, exhibition venues and Lady Megan Lloyd George; and related material, including lists of exhibiting artists and their works.

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.

File of 56 Group secretary Pat Cross, comprising correspondence, 1962-1963, between Pat Cross and Group executive committee members Eric Malthouse, Arthur Giardelli and David Tinker (subject-matter including Pat Cross's resignation as Group secretary in 1963), between Pat Cross and her husband, Tom, and between Pat Cross and incoming Group secretary Mary Griffiths; secretarial notes, [1963], presumably made by Pat Cross; and a report of an informal Group meeting held 10 May 1962. Two of the letters are annotated by Pat Cross and three letters bear what appear to be a child's scribbles.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Paintings & Sculpture exhibition tour of 1962, including correspondence, 1961-1963, largely between Group secretary Pat Cross, Group chairman Eric Malthouse and exhibition venues; press release; invoices, statements and receipts; and draft text for exhibition catalogue.

Correspondence, 1961-1963 and undated, between Group secretary Pat Cross and Group members, which include members' biographical notes and an invitation, 1961, to the opening of an exhibition by painter and sculptor Ron Carlson; and a letter, [1961], to Pat Cross's husband, Tom, from the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Oils & Constructions exhibition tour of 1964 held at the Dillwyn Gallery in Swansea, the Arts Council Gallery in Cardiff, the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, Newport Museum & Art Gallery and the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol, including correspondence, 1963-1964, largely between Group secretary Mary Griffiths and exhibition venues; printed invitations to private viewings; exhibition itineraries and estimated expenses; other related correspondence; and material relating to publicity. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.

Scrapbook containing mainly press cuttings, printed invitations, etc relating to 56 Group/56 Group Wales exhibitions, 1957-1964. Some items loose. Some folios blank.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Paintings & Sculpture exhibition tour of 1965 held at the Bear Lane Gallery in Oxford, the Dillwyn Gallery in Swansea, Carmarthen Art Gallery, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff and Bangor Art Gallery, including correspondence, 1964-1965; draft and printed exhibition catalogues; and printed invitation to private viewing in Oxford. Some folios annotated by Group secretary Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to the 56 Group's A Selection of Small Works exhibition held at Exeter University, 1965, including correspondence of Group secretary Mary Griffiths with exhibiting artists, exhibition venue and other recipients; press release by Group treasurer David Tinker; and lists of exhibited works, with prices. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to the 56 Group's 56/65 Contemporary Painting & Sculpture exhibition held at Newtown Library, 1965, comprising printed invitation to private viewing.

Correspondence, 1963-1965 and undated, including circular letters, between Group secretary Mary Griffiths and Group members; members' biographical notes; miscellaneous Group papers; and memoranda by Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to the 56 Group's Drawings & Gouaches exhibition tour of 1963-1964 held at the Dillwyn Gallery in Swansea, the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth, Welshpool Art Room, the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, Hereford Art Gallery, the Arts Council Gallery in Cardiff, the Midlands Federation of Art Galleries (Lichfield Art Gallery, Northampton Museum & Art Gallery, Newark Museum, Worcester Museum & Art Gallery, Mansfield Art Gallery and Rugby Exhibition Gallery), Hambledon Gallery in Blandford Forum, Cheltenham Museum & Art Gallery and the Victoria Art Gallery in Bath, including correspondence, 1964-1965, largely between Group secretaries Pat Cross and Mary Griffiths and exhibition venues, with other related correspondence; printed invitations to private viewings; press release; and exhibition itinerary.

File of Group 56 secretary Mary Griffiths, comprising correspondence, 1963-1966 and undated, between Mary Griffiths and Group executive committee members Arthur Giardelli, David Tinker, John Wright and Eric Malthouse (subject-matter including a proposal by Group chairman Arthur Giardelli to amend the Group name to '56 Group Wales'); draft letter, [1966], from Arthur Giardelli to the Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford; and circular letters, 1965 and undated, from Mary Griffiths to Group members. Some letters annotated by Mary Griffiths. Two letters from Mary Griffiths to Arthur Giardelli duplicated. One letter from Arthur Giardelli to Mary Griffiths appears to lack its beginning.

56 Group exhibition catalogues, 1957-1958, 1962-1966 and undated, with related material. The 1963 catalogue unfolds as an exhibition poster. Attached notes in the hand of Group secretary Mary Griffiths.

Material relating to 56 Group exhibitions scheduled for 1966-1967, comprising correspondence, 1965-1966, between Group secretary Mary Griffiths, Group members and guest exhibitors and between Mary Griffiths and the Howard Roberts Gallery in Cardiff; and printed catalogue for the Group's cancelled Trends & Trendsetters exhibition due to have been held at the Howard Roberts Gallery in 1966. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.

Correspondence, 1965-1967 and undated, including circular letters, between Group secretary Mary Griffiths and Group members; letter, 1967, to Group treasurer David Tinker from Group member Ernest [Zobole]; members' biographical notes; booklet relating to an exhibition by Group member Jeffrey Steele; miscellaneous Group papers; and memoranda by Mary Griffiths.