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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.

Papers, 1956-2012, of the professional artist exhibiting association 56 Group Wales (formerly the 56 Group) which include publicity material (including catalogues and posters); printed publications; audio-visual footage; photographic print blocks; financial records; insurance papers; agendas and minutes of annual general meetings, extraordinary general meetings and Group meetings; and a voluminous correspondence, largely between the Group’s secretaries and its executive committee and other members, the Welsh Arts Council, exhibition venues, accountants and auditors, etc.

Financial records, 1956-2011, of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales, including accounts, ledgers, receipts, audits, invoices and treasurer's reports, with related correspondence.

Notebook (most folios blank) containing extracts from the 56 Group's 'Manifesto' of August 1956, a record of exhibition sales, accounts and expenses, etc, 1957-1960; loose accounts and notes, [1956]-1958; cheque book stubs, 1991, 1993; receipt book, 1991-1993, 1995; letter, 1989, from Bim Giardelli, wife of Group chairman Arthur Giardelli, enclosing financial contribution; ledger book (many folios blank at end) containing accounts, 1993-1997. Name and address (on Bardsey Island) of artist and writer Brenda Chamberlain noted on inside front cover of 1957-1960 notebook.

Correspondence, 1956-[2012], between Group 56/Group 56 Wales secretaries and members of the 56 Group/56 Group Wales executive committee, and between 56 Group/56 Group Wales secretaries and/or executive committee members and external correspondents, the subject-matter relating mainly to Group exhibitions, publicity, Group membership and funding.

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.

56 Group/56 Group Wales exhibition brochures and catalogues, 1957-2012, with related material.

Material relating to 56 Group exhibitions, 1957-1967, including correspondence, printed invitations to private viewings, publicity material, and details of exhibiting artists and works.

Publicity posters for 56 Group/56 Group Wales exhibitions.

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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.

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

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 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 56 Group Wales publicity, 1956-2012, including correspondence, scrapbooks of press cuttings, printed posters, reviews, Group publications, media broadcasts, printed invitations and exhibition brochures.

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.

Correspondence, 1960-1998, between 56 Group/56 Group Wales secretaries and other organisations, which include the National Museum of Wales in Cardiff, the International Association of Art (IAA) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, subject-matter including current/forthcoming exhibitions, publicity and funding.

Correspondence, 1960-1967, 1969, 1972-1974, 1978, between Group secretaries Pat Cross, Elisabeth Elias and Mary Griffiths, Group chairman Arthur Giardelli and Group treasurer David Tinker and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths, one annotated by Arthur Giardelli.

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.

Correspondence, 1961-2012, largely between 56 Group/56 Group Wales secretaries and 56 Group/56 Group Wales members, the subject-matter for the most part relating to current/forthcoming exhibitions and Group membership.