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Title: David Piper papers relating to British museums and art institutions
Date (inclusive): 1916-1990
Number: 960020
Creator/Collector:
Piper, David
Physical Description:
3.0 linear feet
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: British museum director, art historian, and novelist (1918-1990). These papers reflect Piper's tenure as director of the National
Portrait Gallery (1964-1967), the Fitzwilliam Museum (1967-1973), and the Ashmolean Museum (1973-1985), as well as his position
on various boards and institutions. The collection consists of letters, notes, essays, reports, clippings, and some single
journal issues and promotional material concerning the arts in Britain.
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Language: Collection material is in
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British museum director, art historian, and novelist (1918-1990).
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David Piper Papers Relating to British Museums and Art Institutions, 1916-1990, Getty Research Institute, Research Library,
Accession no. 960020.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa960020
Acquired in 1996.
Scope and Content of Collection
The David Piper Papers relate to Piper's tenure as director of the National Portrait Gallery (1964-1967), the Fitzwilliam
Museum (1967-1973), and the Ashmolean Museum (1973-1985), as well as his position on various boards and institutions, such
as the Royal Fine Art Commission and the Leeds Castle Foundation. The papers consist of letters, notes, essays, reports, clippings,
and some single journal issues and promotional material concerning the arts in Britain. Incorporated are the miscellaneous
papers of Isherwood Kay, Keeper at the National Gallery from 1933-1938. Dating mostly from 1924-1938, these papers include
correspondence with members of the art world, including Collins Baker, Kenneth Clark, Charles Holmes, Ellis Waterhouse, Martin
Davies, and others, as well as additional ephemera and a small collection of art postcards. Piper's literary manuscripts are
not included.
Organized in five series:
I. Correspondence, ca. 1916-1989;
II. Notes and writings, ca. 1928-1989;
III. Ephemera, ca. 1925-1989;
IV. Clippings, ca. 1926-1990;
V. Art postcards.