Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, The Space Between Society: Literature and Culture, Virginia Woolf, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf on Thursday 14 April 2016| Leave a Comment »
The two new interns at Charleston continue to unearth work by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as part of the Angelica Garnett Gift. They are photographing, cataloguing and publishing Grant and Bell’s works for viewing online.
Here’s the interns’ most recent post about two sketchbooks by Duncan Grant dated circa 1919 and 1923.
Posted in art, Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Virginia Woolf, tagged Angelica Garnett Gift, Charleston, Duncan Grant, Rebecca Birrell, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Zoe Wolstenholme on Monday 21 March 2016| Leave a Comment »
The summer season will kick off at Charleston, the Sussex retreat of the Bloomsbury Group, with free lectures by Charleston interns, beginning March 24 at 2 p.m.
Charleston
The house will also be open via guided tours, which you can book here.
The lectures, which will take place in the historic barns, include:
You can also book a place on the Spotlight lectures.
Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, tagged Bloomsbury, Charleston, Charleston Attic, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell on Friday 26 February 2016| Leave a Comment »
If you don’t already, follow The Charleston Attic blog, a record of the work of graduate student interns as they catalogue, research and interpret the Angelica Garnett Gift 
Charleston, home of twentieth century artists, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and their daughter Angelica Garnett, was the Sussex retreat of the Bloomsbury Group. The internships are funded by the Heritage Lottery.
Here are links to this month’s posts:
Lyric Charm and Quiet Wit – Duncan Grant’s Tangier landscapes
The Process of Abstraction – Vanessa Bell’s and Duncan Grant’s experiments in abstract art using “the tangible ephemera of everyday life.”
“The Maternal Paradox: The Private Portraiture of Vanessa Bell” –
“New honours come upon him, like our strange garments” – Duncan Grant’s Modernist designs for Harley Granville-Barker’s production of Macbeth, planned for 1912.
Posted in Bloomsbury, Charleston Farmhouse, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Charleston Attic, Duncan Grant on Friday 21 August 2015| Leave a Comment »
Rummage through the attic at Charleston with The Charleston Attic blog, a record of the work of graduate student interns as they catalogue, research and interpret the Angelica Garnett Gift Collection from the home’s attic.
Recent posts of interest include:
Posted in Bloomsbury, tagged Bloomsbury Group, Duncan Grant, Famous Women Dinner Service, Vanessa Bell on Monday 27 July 2015| 1 Comment »
Here’s a piece from The Charleston Attic blog on the 140-piece dinner service featuring famous women created by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. It is one of the largest commissioned works produced by the artists and was commissioned in 1932.
‘The firm of Bell and Grant’ and the Famous Women Dinner Service.
The Virginia Woolf plate is pictured in Diane Gillespie’s The Sisters’ Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and 
According to Gillespie, the plates were divided into four groups and Woolf’s plate is included in the writers’ group. Woolf’s plate features a border of alternating squiggles and large dots. In a July 27, 2015, message to the VWoolf Listserv, Gillespie noted that she was able to see a number of the plates during the 1980s in the home of Lady Clark.
Ann Donlon wrote a Oct. 9, 2013, post about the plates on her blog after a visit to Charleston. Titled Dinner Plates, it includes images.
Also see Woolf on a plate, a 2009 post on Blogging Woolf about Judy Chicago’s The Dinner Party that includes a Woolf plate.
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