Showing 1987 results

Diary 2002, including engagements for December 2001 and 2003, limericks, and a small ink sketch.

W H Smith diary 2003, including an entry for December 2002 and engagements for 2004, limericks, notes regarding a new art gallery, an ink sketch and doodles.

Diary 2004, including engagements for January 2005, notes relating to art, a visit to Venice, pictures for a 'new book', and limericks.

Diary 2005, including entries for December 2004, verses, and notes which appear to have been intended for the opening of the Royal Cambrian Academy Summer Exhibition attended by Rolf Harris.

BBC diary 2006, including entries for December 2005.

Catalogues, together with some invitations to private viewings, cards and papers, relating to various one-man exhibitions of Kyffin Williams's work, 1954-2005, including those held at the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge; Oriel Môn, Llangefni; National Library of Wales; Howard Roberts Gallery, and the Albany Gallery, Cardiff; P. & D. Colnaghi, Leicester Galleries, and the Thackeray Gallery, London. A corrected typescript, [?1981], of an introduction by John Ormond to an exhibition of Kyffin Williams's work at the National Library of Wales, 1981, together with a typescript review, entitled 'Natural painter of all things Welsh', of his exhibition in the Howard Roberts Gallery, 1968, published in The Times, 16 October 1968, are included amongst the papers.

Catalogues, 1950-2006, of solo exhibitions by Kyffin Williams and group exhibitions which included paintings and drawings by him; together with papers, 1985-1987, relating to a retrospective exhibition of his work, 1987; and visitors' books, 1981-1999.

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

Visitors books, mostly photocopies, of Kyffin Williams exhibitions, 1981-1999, including comments.

Papers, 1985-1987, relating to a retrospective exhibition of Kyffin Williams's work, 1987, mainly comprising lists of items selected for the exhibition and correspondence. Also included are corrected typescripts of an introduction by John Ormond, and a holograph stanza (englyn) by James Nicholas, dated 9 May 1986, both of which were published in the exhibition catalogue.

Papers, [?1965]-[?2004], relating to books and articles by Kyffin Williams, among them his autobiographical works Across the Straits and A wider sky. They mostly comprise manuscript drafts, typescript copies, proofs, agreements, related notes, and reviews.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, some incomplete, [?1970]x[?1993], of his autobiographical work, Across the Straits (London (1973), & Llandysul (1993)). The file also includes related notes; corrected galley proofs; a typescript review of the book, in Welsh and English, by Derec Llwyd Morgan, together with printed reviews, 1973. Cuttings of Kyffin Williams' recollections of Ynysfor, published in Architecture Wales [?1965], are inserted amongst the sixth chapter of the first manuscript draft.

Manuscript and typescript drafts, some incomplete, [?1989]-1991, of A wider sky (Llandysul, 1991); together with a copy of the galley proofs, 1991, for the Introduction and the chapter relating to France; an agreement, 1991, between the author and the publisher; and a bookseller's catalogue, 1993, in which the work is listed.

Autograph first draft, together with mostly incomplete typescript copies containing manuscript corrections and amendments, of an unpublished book, [1969]-1970, recounting the author's visit to Patagonia, November 1968 - February 1969. Typescripts and folders entitled 'Untitled book on Patagonia' and 'The Welsh in Patagonia'. Parts of this draft were published as 'An Artist in Welsh Patagonia', in The Anglo-Welsh Review, vol. 18, no. 42 (1970), pp. 5-32. In addition, the chapters relating to Patagonia in his book A wider sky (Llandysul, 1991), appear to have been based on this work. An ink sketch of a side profile of a head, signed by Kyffin Williams, is included on the reverse of p. 103 of the ink draft.

Ink draft, [1997x1998], of the introductions by Kyffin Williams to the sections on the sea and 'Landscape' for his book, The land & the sea (Llandysul, 1998), together with an agreement, 1998, regarding the publication of the book.

Ink draft, [1995x1996], of Portraits (Llandysul, 1996); together with an agreement, 1996, between the author and the publisher; a copy of the journal Artists & illustrators (March 1997), which includes excerpts from the book; and reviews from Books in Wales and Art Review, 1996.

Papers, 2000, relating to the volume Drawings (Llandysul, 2001), including proofs of possible cover designs, and illustrated order forms containing details of the book and other titles by Kyffin Williams published by the Gomer Press.

Four surplus copies of a folded leaf, including the title page, from the Gwasg Gregynog publication, Cutting images : a selection of linocuts by Kyffin Williams (Newtown, 2002), one of which includes two limericks in the author's hand. Also included is a copy of a prospectus for the book.

Ink draft, [?2004], of Kyffin Williams's introduction to Gwladfa Kyffin = Kyffin in Patagonia (Aberystwyth, 2004), together with a related leaflet and order form.

Various publications and printed material, 1978-[2004], containing illustrations by Kyffin Williams.