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🔸 Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell playing cricket, 1890s. Harvard University library. #victorianchaps #goodolddays #oldphoto #cricket #nostalgia #portrait #victorian #vintage #virginiawoolf #vanessabell #history #retro #1890s https://www.instagram.com/p/CDVzzG9HSnQ/?igshid=88nkckq9ebei

BERWICK CHURCH: whilst museums and galleries are still closed it was a treat to pop in to see the murals and decorations by the Bloomsbury Group in this Sussex church near @charlestontrust yesterday morning. Painted during World War II by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, and Quentin Bell as a commission from Bishop Bell of Chichester, the murals form an extraordinary decorative scheme: like an Italian chapel in the South Downs. A programme of restoration funded by @heritagefunduk and other donors has recently been completed to preserve the paintings, and improve environmental conditions in the church, including conservation of the paintings, lighting, flooring and a general redecoration, so the church is looking much brighter than I remember. #berwick #bloomsburygroup #interiors #vanessabell #duncangrant #quentinbell #berwickchurch @berwickchurchsussex (at Berwick Church) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNrWGh0lpt5/?igshid=193894pbo83fe

Vanessa Bell

Last 11 copies! A Bloomsbury Souvenir Alice Pattullo If you've been meaning to get a copy of Alice's lithographed concertina Souvenir of her Summer's visit to Charleston then now's the time! Just a few left. Available via the link in my profile. #designfortoday #alicepattullo #bloomsbury #vanessabell #charlestonfarmhouse #lithography

A CONVERSATION: what a pleasure to find this in my post... a 1934 first edition of Virginia Woolf’s essay on Walter Sickert, with a cover by her sister Vanessa Bell. It was published by the Hogarth Press and has the wonderful opening line: ‘Though talk is a common habit and much enjoyed, those who try to record it are aware that it runs hither and thither, seldom sticks to the point, abounds in exaggeration and inaccuracy, and has frequent stretches of extreme fullness.’ I am very grateful to Bloomsbury scholar @mholliday_esq who has generously auctioned it on Instagram in order to support @charlestontrust where I am a Trustee. Charleston needs all our support right now: without an endowment or public funding, it has been badly hit by closure and the cancellation of its May Literary Festival due to coronavirus. You can made a donation to their emergency appeal via the website: the aim is raise £400,000. The book is displayed here on a cushion made from Vanessa Bell’s White fabric, which can also be purchased online from the Charleston shop: it all helps. #charlestontrust #bloomsburygroup #vanessabell #virginiawoolf #hogarthpress #charlestonfarmhouse #design #instabook #booklover #modernbritishart #waltersickert #sickert (at Brighton and Hove) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AD36DF5TE/?igshid=oc0xsuqotz14

A Bloomsbury Souvenir Alice Pattullo Printers proof sheet of Alice's 26 panel concertina book. A memento of a summers visit to Charleston Farmhouse. Available from Charleston, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Snowden Flood (Oxo Tower) and via my website. #alicepattullo #charlston #bloomsbury #vanessabell #duncangrant #hogarthpress #designfortoday

Bloomsbury patterns Alice Pattullo Just a week left of the Vanessa Bell show @dulwichgallery where you can also find A Bloomsbury Souvenir by Alice Pattullo. Don't despair if you can't make it though as these are available via the link in my profile and will be on sale at @yorkshiresculpturepark in a week or two. #abloomsburysouvenir #alicepattullo #vanessabell #charleston #duncangrant

At the Ballet Duncan Grant Detail from his c1937 lithograph for the Contemporary Lithograph series to which Vanessa Bell also contributed. It was possibly the first of many efforts to provide 'good' contemporary illustration for classrooms and nurserys. As with the A.I.A. Prints, CEMA, The School Prints and The Penguin Prints that followed, all were commercial and more successful were those intended for publicity such as the Lyons, Shell & Guinness lithographs that were sold as an afterthought. #duncangrant #artforall #attheballet #contemporarylithograph #vanessabell #bloomsbury #charleston #lithography