Exhibition
Open Archive Day
7 Sep 2019
Event times
11am-3pm
Cost of entry
FREE, drop-in
Address
- Castle Street
- Cambridge
- CB3 0AQ
- United Kingdom
Come and meet archivists from across the University of Cambridge Museums, and explore the themes of 'Artist: Unknown' through their collections.
About
About the Kettle’s Yard archive
At the heart of the archive at Kettle’s Yard are Jim Ede’s personal papers, which formed part of his gift to the University of Cambridge in 1966. These document the wide range of influences throughout Ede’s life, from his experience of World War I, through the ‘open house’ the Ede’s kept in Hampstead through the late 1920s and early 1930s and the vibrant set who attended their parties; the weekend retreats for servicemen on leave from Gibraltar at the Ede’s house in Tangier at the end of World War II; the ‘lecturer in search of an audience’ who travelled to the US in the early 1940s; to the prolific correspondence not just with artist friends, but other notable figures such as T E Lawrence; and the development of Kettle’s Yard and its collections.
