GB 0103 TOWNSEND - William Townsend Papers

41 boxes

GB 0103 TOWNSEND 1919-1973 Collection (fonds) 41 boxes Townsend , William , 1909-1973 , Professor of Fine Art

William Townsend was born in Wandsworth and educated at Simon Langton School in Canterbury. From 1926 to 1930 he attended the Slade School of Fine Art. He lived in Canterbury and later Bridge from 1925 to 1946. From 1946 to 1949 he taught part-time at the Camberwell School of Art and then joined the staff of the Slade School in 1949. He was Professor of Fine Art at University College London from 1968 to 1973. He visited Canada many times during his life on art tours. In 1970 he was editor and part author of Canadian Painting Today, published in London and New York. He held many exhibitions in London and Canada and had work included in many galleries.

Deposited in University College London Library by William Townsend and, after his death, his family, between 1968 and 1979.

Townsend's journals. Also correspondence, personal files, postcards, art photographs, press cuttings, newspapers, typescripts of poems and articles, and general professional papers concerning colleges and exhibitions in Canada and the UK.

Partially listed. Please contact UCL Special Collections for further information.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.
English

Draft handlist.

  1999; updated July 2018  Art education Art galleries Artists Canada Cultural education Diaries Documents Europe Exhibitions Fine arts Illustrations Information sources Literary forms and genres Literature Newspaper press Newspapers Nonfiction North America Periodicals Photographs Poetry Press Press cuttings Primary documents Prose Publications Townsend , William , 1909-1973 , Professor of Fine Art UK University College London , Slade School of Fine Art x Slade School of Fine Art Visual materials Western Europe Communications media Information sciences London England

Deposited in University College London Library by William Townsend and, after his death, his family, between 1968 and 1979.

Townsend's journals. Also correspondence, personal files, postcards, art photographs, press cuttings, newspapers, typescripts of poems and articles, and general professional papers concerning colleges and exhibitions in Canada and the UK.

Partially listed. Please contact UCL Special Collections for further information.

Normal copyright restrictions apply.

• English

• Latin

English

Draft handlist.

• English