Archive of personal papers

Item author: Sir Leslie Martin
Item date: 1935 - 1980
Grant Value: 10,000
Item cost: 50,000
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
Town/City: Edinburgh

Over 320 items of correspondence from Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Naum Gabo amongst others. The letters are rich in detail about each artists own work, their friends and families, and nicely complement the Gallerys holdings of material relating to Surrealism and British Modernism. Martin was himself a distinguished architect and played a crucial rle in the development of Britism Modernism in the 1930s

Item Provenance
Family collection