Metadata : Photographs and research material relating to David Bomberg, the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tate Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tate Archive
- Postal address:
- Tate BritainMillbank London United Kingdom SW1P 4RG
- Web address:
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Tate Archive
- Holding institution (official language):
- Tate Archive
- Postal address:
- Tate BritainMillbank London United Kingdom SW1P 4RG
- Web address:
- https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
- Reference number:
- TGA 20057
- Title:
- Photographs and research material relating to David Bomberg, the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega
- Title (official language):
- Photographs and research material relating to David Bomberg, the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bomberg, David
- Marr, Leslie
- Date(s):
- 1947/2005
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises eight photographs, relating to David Bomberg, his family and the Borough Group. Accompanied by various research material such as invitations to private views of the Borough Group; press cuttings and publicity material; an essay by Leslie Marr; and private notes about the Borough Group made by Lilian Bomberg, nee Holt.
- 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.
- Leslie Marr was born in Durham and began painting whilst posted to Palestine during World War Two. After the war he was taught by David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic. His contemporaries there included, among others, Frank Auerbach, Cliff Holden, Leon Kossoff, Dorothy Mead, and Gustav Metzger. He became a member and Secretary of the Borough Group, created by Bomberg and his students in 1946, and took part in many of its exhibitions until its dissolution in 1950. Marr was also closely involved in the Borough Bottega, established by Bomberg in 1953, to denote 'the spirit in the mass'. Marr married Bomberg's step-daughter, Dinora Mendelson in 1948.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bomberg, David
- Holt, Lilian
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Bomberg, David
- Holt, Lilian
- Subject terms:
- Art--Artists
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://archive.tate.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=tdc-calm&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27TGA%2020057%27)
- Reference number:
- TGA 20057
- Title:
- Photographs and research material relating to David Bomberg, the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega
- Title (official language):
- Photographs and research material relating to David Bomberg, the Borough Group and the Borough Bottega
- Creator/accumulator:
- Bomberg, David
- Marr, Leslie
- Date(s):
- 1947/2005
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 1 folder
- Scope and content:
- This collection comprises eight photographs, relating to David Bomberg, his family and the Borough Group. Accompanied by various research material such as invitations to private views of the Borough Group; press cuttings and publicity material; an essay by Leslie Marr; and private notes about the Borough Group made by Lilian Bomberg, nee Holt.
- 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.
- Leslie Marr was born in Durham and began painting whilst posted to Palestine during World War Two. After the war he was taught by David Bomberg at the Borough Polytechnic. His contemporaries there included, among others, Frank Auerbach, Cliff Holden, Leon Kossoff, Dorothy Mead, and Gustav Metzger. He became a member and Secretary of the Borough Group, created by Bomberg and his students in 1946, and took part in many of its exhibitions until its dissolution in 1950. Marr was also closely involved in the Borough Bottega, established by Bomberg in 1953, to denote 'the spirit in the mass'. Marr married Bomberg's step-daughter, Dinora Mendelson in 1948.
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Bomberg, David
- Holt, Lilian
- Access points: persons/families (additional):
- Bomberg, David
- Holt, Lilian
- Subject terms:
- Art--Artists
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see http://archive.tate.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqServer=tdc-calm&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqCmd=show.tcl&dsqSearch=(RefNo==%27TGA%2020057%27)
