Biography
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1920
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Born in Grangemouth
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1937-40
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Studied at Edinburgh College of Art
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1938
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Awarded Andrew Grant Scholarship
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1941
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Awarded Andrew Grant Travelling Scholarship
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1941-46
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Military Service with the Royal Artillery
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1942
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Guthrie Award for the best painting by a young artist at the Scottish Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Edinburgh
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1947
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Married Janet Gaul; touring as a professional jazz musician
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1948
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Travelling around Europe; met Peggy Guggenheim, who bought one of his works
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1949
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Moved to London; birth of daughter, Jane
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1950
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Showed at Gimpel Fils; met Herbert Read and Roland Penrose
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1953-1956; 1959
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Taught at Central School of Arts and Crafts
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1956
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Moved to New York; met leading Abstract Expressionists; took up a Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University
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1958
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Showed at the Whitechapel Gallery, London (touring from Wakefield City Art Gallery)
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1966
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Paintings appeared in 'Blow-Up'; First Prize at the International Graphics Exhibition, Cracow, Poland
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1971
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First record published by Alan Davie Music Workshop
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1972
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Awarded CBE
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1974-91
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Wintered annually in St. Lucia, painting gouaches
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1975
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Music concert in Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris
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1977
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Saltire Award for mosaic in Grangemouth; Lecturer at the Royal College of Art
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1982
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Taught at summer school at Emily Carr College of Art, Vancouver
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1987
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Received Order of the Southern Cross, Brazil
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1991
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Elected member of the Royal West of England Academy; became Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art
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1993
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Visiting Professor at University of Brighton School of Art
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1994
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Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Faculty of Art and Design, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
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1995
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Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters, Hertfordshire, Hatfield
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2000
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art retrospective
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2002
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Visiting Professor at University of Brighton School of Art
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2003
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Exhibition at Tate (also 2014)
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2012
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Became a Senior Royal Academician
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2014
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Died
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Selected Solo Exhibitions
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1946
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Grant’s Bookshop, Edinburgh
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1948
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Galleria Michelangelo, Florence, Italy (and Galleria Sandri, Venice)
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1950
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Gimpel Fils Gallery, London
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1956
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Catherine Viviano Galllery, New York 'Alan Davie'
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Gimpel Fils, London 'Alan Davie'
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1957
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Catherine Viviano Galllery, New York 'Alan Davie'
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1958
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Wakefield City Art Gallery, Liverpool 'Alan Davie - Retrospective' (touring)
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1961
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Martha Jackson Gallery, New York
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Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles
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1962-63
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FBA Galleries, London and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 'Alan Davie: Retrospective' (touring)
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1963
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Galleria La Medusa, Rome
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British Section, 7th Bienal de Bellas Artes de São Paolo, Brazil (Prize, Best Foreign Painter)
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1968
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The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh 'Alan Davie - Retrospective of 52 Paintings'
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1970-71
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University Art Museum of Texas, Austin (retrospective)
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1971
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2nd Triennale of World Art, Dehli
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1972
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Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 'Alan Davie - Retrospective 1952-1972' (touring)
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1976
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Galleria La Medusa, Rome
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1977
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Zoumboulakis Gallery, Athens
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1982
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Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong (retrospective)
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FIAC, Paris
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1986
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Gimpel & Weitzenhoffer Gallery, New York
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1987
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Gimpel Fils, London 'Alan Davie: Major Works of the Fifties'
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FIAC, Paris
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1988
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South West Galleries Association (touring)
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1990
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Galerie Bork, Copenhagen
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Galleri G, Helsingborg
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1992
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McLellan Galleries, Glasgow 'Solo: The Alan Davie Retrospective' (touring)
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1992-1995
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The Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh 'The British Council exhibition of works on paper' (touring)
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1993
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Barbican Art Gallery, London (retrospective)
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1996
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Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow
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1997
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Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh (touring)
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Thomas Dane Gallery, London
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2000-01
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University of Brighton Gallery, Brighton (touring - inc. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art)
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2001
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Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen 'Alan Davie: Schilderijen Paintings 1950-2000'
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2002
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Howard Gardens Gallery, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff
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2003
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James Hayman Fine Art, London
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Tate St Ives, Cornwall 'Alan Davie: Jingling Space'
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2004
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ACA Galleries, New York 'Alan Davie: The Alchemical Journey'
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James Hyman Fine Art, London 'The Challenge of Post-War Painting'
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2005
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Galleria Morone, Milan
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2006
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108 Fine Art, Harrogate
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2007
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Thomas Dane Gallery, London 'Alan Davie. Paintings 1955-1967'
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ACA Galleries, New York
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2008
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Gimpel Fils, London and James Hyman Gallery, London (touring)
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2010
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Gimpel Fils, London (Alan Davie's 90th birthday celebration)
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2014
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Tate, London 'BP Spotlight: Alan Davie'
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Publications
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'Alan Davie - Retrospective', London: Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1958 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davie', Los Angeles: Esther Robles Gallery, 1961 (ex. cat.)
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Bowness, A. (ed.), 'Alan Davie', London: Lund Humphries, 1967
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'Alan Davie: Retrospective', London: FBA Galleries & Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1967 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davie - Retrospective of 52 Paintings', Edinburgh: The Richard Demarco Gallery, 1968 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davie - Retrospective 1952-1972', Edinburgh: Royal Scottish Academy, 1972 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davie: Major Works of the Fifties', London: Gimpel Fils, 1987 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davies. Major Works of the Sixties', Gimpel Fils, London, 1989 (ex. cat.)
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'Solo: The Alan Davie Retrospective', Glasgow: Glasgow Museums, 1992 (ex. cat.)
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Hall, D. and M.Tucker, 'Alan Davie', London: Lund Humphries, 1992
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'Alan Davie: Schilderijen Paintings 1950-2000', Amstelveen: Cobra Museum of Modern Art (ex. cat.)
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'The Challenge of Post-War Painting', London: James Hyman Fine Art, 2004 (ex. cat.)
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'Alan Davie. Paintings 1955-1967', London: Thomas Dane Gallery, 2007
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Hall, D., 'Alan Davie: To Uncover the Hidden Unknown', London: Alan Wheatley Art, 2011
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Collections
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Arts Council of Great Britain, London
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British Council, London
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Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
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Contemporary Arts Society, London
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Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
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Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, St Paul-de-Vence
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Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
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Kunsthaus, Berne
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Museum des 20.Jahrhunderts, Vienna
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Metropolitan Museum, New York
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National Gallery, Oslo
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Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
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Scottish Art Council, Edinburgh
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Stäatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
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Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
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Tate, London
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Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
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Trinity College, Dublin
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University of Brighton
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University of Cambridge
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V&A Museum, London
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Wakefield Art Gallery
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