Reference code
ZA UCT BC144
Title
Dronsfield Collection
Date(s)
- 1934-1955 (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
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Name of creator
(1900-1951)
Biographical history
British-born graphic artist, poet, painter, composer and stage designer. In 1939 he emigrated to settle in Cape Town, South Africa where he built a reputation as an imaginative stage-designer for ballet and straight drama, and continued working as author and graphic artist, with his first one-man art exhibition taking place in Cape Town in the very year of his arrival, followed inter alia by an Overseas Exhibition of South African Art, at the Tate Gallery (1948) and the Venice Biennale (1950). Two Memorial Exhibitions were held for him: South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town (1955) and the Wolpe Gallery, Cape Town (1967).
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Scope and content
4 albums of letters, programmes, newspaper clippings, etc, relating to his work.
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No restrictions apply
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Language of material
- English
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2013
Language(s)
- English