Photograph of a Royal Mail van parked outside the Abbey Art Centre gates, 1950
subject: Artist colonies -- England. Postal service -- England.
description: Photograph showing the Royal Mail van at the gates of the Abbey Art Centre, New Barnet. The van is marked 'Barnet' on the door. A sign reading 'Abbey Art Centre' is mounted on the vine-covered wall to the left while the street number '89' is just visible on the gate post behind the parked van. Photograph inscribed verso: 'Mail boys were frightened to go up the drive -' / The Abbey had a bad reputation'.
creator: Photographer unknown
source: Courtesy of Michael Counihan
date: 1950
contributor: Sheridan Palmer, Victoria Perin, and Jane Eckett
rights: © Michael Counihan and the Counihan Estate. This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
format: silver gelatin print
language: English
type: still image

Drawings and Water-Colours by Katerina Wilczynski, October — November 1942
subject: Wilczynski, Katerina. Berkeley Galleries.
description: Single sheet, folded, printed in black and white on cream wove paper, with an illustration by Katerina Wilczynski on the front cover showing [check which building], Oxford, and signed within the image 'WILS / OXFORD / 1942'. Inside is a biographical note about the artist followed the catalogue listing of 50 works, divided into four sections: 1928–1938, London 1939–1940, Oxford 1942, and Arkadian [sic] Fantasia 1942. In addition to the 50 listed works, the catalogue refers to Portfolios Nos. I, II, and III.
creator: Berkeley Galleries
source: National Art Library, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, 200.B.19 1942
publisher: London: Berkeley Galleries
date: 1942 October — November
contributor: Jane Eckett
rights: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available.
format: exhibition catalogue
type: Text

The Abbey Art Centre and Museum, Founded by William F. C. Ohly … P.S. Lindsay, A.T.D. (Lond.), Hon. Curator, c. 1957
subject: Abbey Art Centre. Art Art Centre Museum, New Barnet. Lindsay, Peter S. Forty, Francis J., 1900–1990. Art, primitive. Art, primitive -- Africa. Art, Primitive -- Exhibitions. Art, Chinese. Art, Egyptian.
description: Publicity brochure advertising the Abbey Art Centre Museum, open Saturday afternoon, 2:30-5pm, or by appointment. Illustrated on the front cover with a photograph of the tithe barn as seen from the driveway towards the Abbey Art Centre, with the wishing well in the foreground, credited to Francis J. Forty. Inside is a second photograph, also by Francis J. Forty, showing three objects from the museum's collection and identified, left to right, as: 'Pottery Tobacco Pipe (Upper Nile), Wooden Mask (Sierra Leone), [and] Chinese Vase (Tang)'. On the reverse, below further text regarding the Abbey Art Centre, is a map of how to reach the Abbey by public transport (the same map as used in 800.0045 The Abbey Art Centre Museum ... Curator C.A. Burland, c. 1952).
creator: Abbey Art Centre Museum; Peter S. Lindsay A.T.D.
source: Private collection, England
publisher: New Barnet, Herts., UK: Abbey Art Centre and Museum
date: c. 1957
contributor: Simon Pierse and Jane Eckett
rights: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available., display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available.
relation: 800.0045, The Abbey Art Centre Museum ... Curator C.A. Burland, c. 1952
format: pamphlet, single sheet, folded to make four pages, printed in black
language: English
type: text

Christmas Exhibition at the Berkeley Galleries, Thursday 9th December [1954]
subject: Berkeley Galleries. Art galleries, Commercial -- England -- London -- Exhibitions. Art galleries, Commercial -- England -- London -- History. Krüger, Gudrun Juliane, 1922-2004.
description: Exhibition invitation card, printed in black on white and red background. Four groups of works are listed on the right hand side: 'Pictures by Henry Moore, Ceri Richards, Lilian Colbourn and others' / 'Small Sculptures by P. King, R. Jones, G. Kruger and others' / 'Small Chinese Paintings / Objects from India and The Far East' / 'Native Jewellery and Sculptures by Primitive People'.
creator: William Ohly (1883-1955); Berkeley Galleries
source: Berkeley Galleries scrapbook, private collection, UK
publisher: London: Berkeley Galleries
date: 9 December [1954]
contributor: Sheridan Palmer and Jane Eckett
rights: This Work has been digitized in a public-private partnership. As part of this partnership, the partners have agreed to limit commercial uses of this digital representation of the Work by third parties. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available., display, or perform the Item, for non-commercial uses. For any other permissible uses, please review the terms and conditions of the organization that has made the Item available.
format: exhibition invitation card
language: English
type: text

Katerina Wilczynski (also known as Kathé, Kaete and Kate Wilczynski) (1894–1978)
contributor: Jane Eckett
type: person

Angela Varga (1925–)
contributor: Jane Eckett
type: person

Phillip Martin (1927–2014)
contributor: Sheridan Palmer
relation: Helen Marshall (1909–1996)
type: person

Helen Marshall (1908–1996)
subject: Marshall, Helen, 1908–1996.
contributor: Jane Eckett
relation: Phillip Martin (1927–2014)
type: person

Margret Kroch-Frishman (1897–1972)
subject: Kroch-Frishman, Margret
contributor: Jane Eckett
relation: Marcel Frishman (1900–1952)
type: person

Helen Grünwald ARCA (1925–1988)
contributor: Jane Eckett
type: person