Metadata: Letters, papers, photographs, printed material and newspaper cuttings on the English artist David Bomberg (1890-1957)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tate Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tate Archive
- Postal address:
- Tate BritainMillbankLondonUnited KingdomSW1P 4RG
- Web address:
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
- Reference number:
- TGA 8811
- Title:
- Letters, papers, photographs, printed material and newspaper cuttings on the English artist David Bomberg (1890-1957)
- Title (official language):
- Letters, papers, photographs, printed material and newspaper cuttings on the English artist David Bomberg (1890-1957)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bomberg, David
- Newmark, Kitty
- Date(s):
- 1917/1987
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 3 boxes
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises letters, photographs, printed material and newspaper cuttings relating to David Bomberg, collected by his sister Katie ('Kitty') Newmark, née Bomberg (born 1902), and her husband James ('Jim') Newmark (died 1988).
- Archival history:
- Collected by his sister Katie ('Kitty') Newmark, née Bomberg (born 1902), and her husband James ('Jim') Newmark (died 1988)
- Administrative/biographical history:
- David Bomberg was born in Birmingham in December 1890. His father, Abraham Bomberg, was a Jewish leather-worker from Poland. The family moved from Birmingham to Whitechapel, East London in 1895. David married Alice Mayes (1880-1973) in 1916, but they separated in 1927. In 1941 he married Lilian Mendelson, née Holt, who had a daughter Dinora (later Davies-Rees) (1924-2010) from her previous marriage to the art dealer Jacob Mendelson. The couple had one child, Diana (1935-1974). Lilian accompanied David on many painting expeditions and played an important part in furthering and protecting his posthumous reputation. She assisted with exhibitions of his work, subsidized the publication of William C. Lipke's extensive biography, `David Bomberg: A Critical Study of his Life and Work' (1967), and preserved printed material and press cuttings on his work.
- Kitty Newmark moved to the West Central Jewish Girls' Club after the death of her mother Rebecca in 1912. There she learnt secretarial skills which gained her employment in the nineteen-twenties at a travel agency. She later worked as a typist for the B. B. C. In 1931 Kitty married James Newmark, a leather worker who specialized in the manufacture of handbags, and after service with the British Army in Africa and Italy during the Second World War, owned and operated a small handbag factory in the City of London. Kitty Newmark provided Bomberg with financial assistance and frequently helped with the exhibition and sale of his pictures in London when he was living abroad. James Newmark wrote a short account of Bomberg's trip to Petra, which was published in the `Studio' in August 1932. In 1933 the Newmarks, who were lifelong Socialists, encouraged Bomberg to join the Communist Party, though he resigned his membership on returning from a six-month trip to the Soviet Union in December 1933.All three attended demonstrations against unemployment and war in London in 1932 and were sympathetic to the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39). In 1957 Kitty Newmark travelled to Gibraltar to support her brother in his final illness.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bomberg, David
- Subject terms:
- Art
- Art--Artists
- Correspondence
- Newspaper clippings
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25