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8. Speech to NACF, 14 June 1967, Tate 8812/2/2/670
9. Letter from Professor Joseph Burke to Clark, 30 January 1948, Tate 8812/1/4/33
10. Letter to Jane, undated, c.January 1949, Saltwood
11. Secrest, Kenneth Clark, p.174
12. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.43
13. Letter to Berenson, 28 March 1949, Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.306
14. Interviewed 21 January 1949
15. ‘The Idea of a Great Gallery’, lecture delivered at University of Melbourne, 27 January 1949
16. For an excellent account of the visit see Simon Pierse, ‘Sir Kenneth Clark: Deus ex Machina of Australian Art’, in Marshall (ed.), Europe and Australia, p.105
17. Clark, The Other Half, p.155
18. Clark got the price wrong, and quoted £250 instead of the correct amount, £350
19. See Tate 8812/11/4/5
20. See Pierse in Marshall (ed.), Europe and Australia, p.107
21. The account in the autobiography is inaccurate, and does not acknowledge Burke’s role. See Pierse, ibid.
22. Clark, The Other Half, p.151
23. Letter from Clark to Nolan, 16 February 1950, Tate 8812/1/5/2264
24. See Pierse in Marshall (ed.), Europe and Australia, p.116
25. Ibid., p.113
26. Clark had managed to get Frederick Ashton temporarily out of the RAF for the ballet Quest. Jane adored him
27. Letter from Audrey Scales to author, 25 July 2014
28. Drogheda, Double Harness: Memoirs, p.225
29. Ibid., p.240
30. Interview in ‘Remarks at the National Gallery of Art Washington on being awarded the Art Medal’, 18 November 1970
31. Letter to Janet Stone, 11 January 1957, Bodleian Library
32. Sinclair, Arts and Cultures, p.123
33. Ibid.
34. Interview with author
35. Letter to author, 3 June 2014
36. There is a photograph of the office when Clark occupied it in The Survey of London, Vol. XXX: The Parish of St James Westminster, London 1960, plate 139
37. Interview with author
38. Nicolson (ed.), Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1945–1962 (entry for 21 December 1954)
39. Letter from Raymond Mortimer to Clark, 22 December 1954, Saltwood
40. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 October 1957, Bodleian Library
41. Letter from Bill Williams to Clark, 29 April 1960, Tate 8812/1/3/3451–3500
42. Letter to Janet Stone, 27 March 1960, Bodleian Library
43. Letter to Janet Stone, 24 July 1961, Bodleian Library
44. Interview with author
Chapter 26: The Naked and the Nude
1. Clark, The Other Half, p.87
2. Letter to Edith Sitwell, 10 November 1950, Sitwell Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
3. Letter to David Finley, 6 November 1950, Tate 8812/1/4/13
4. The Trees were socialites who for a time owned Ditchley Park, Oxon. Nin Ryan was a socialite. The Wrightsmans were major art collectors who were to play a big role in Clark’s life in the future
5. Letter to Berenson, 8 December 1950, I Tatti
6. Dean Acheson, statesman; Joe Alsop, journalist friend of John F. Kennedy; Walter Lippmann, journalist; Felix Frankfurter, justice and friend of US presidents
7. Letter to John Walker, 17 October 1950, Tate 8812/1/4/13
8. Letter from John Walker to Clark, 27 October 1950, Tate 8812/1/4/13
9. See letter to Jock Murray, 26 June 1950, Tate 8812/1/4/285
10. The terms were 15 per cent on the first 5,000 copies sold in the UK, rising to 17½ per cent thereafter. In America the publisher was the Bollingen Foundation, which offered a flat 10 per cent on all copies sold
11. Letter to Mary Potter, 15 August 1952, Potter Archive
12. Clark, The Nude, p.xxi
13. Letter to Jock Murray, 1 September 1951, Tate 8812/1/4/285
14. Letter to Mary Potter, 23 September 1950, private collection
15. Two letters to G.L. Pritt, 14 January and 25 February 1952, Tate 8812/1/2/101–150. His proposal was not to have grander wines, but good cheap wines
16. Letter to John Walker, 16 February 1953, Tate 8812/1/4/13
17. Letter to Berenson, 20 January 1953, Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.373
18. Letter from Walter Lippmann to Clark, 24 March 1953, Stirling Library, Yale
19. Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, Preface, p.xxi
20. Letter from Gertrud Bing to Clark, 31 January 1957, Tate 8812/1/4/314
21. See Introduction to Japanese edition of The Nude, Tate 8812/1/4/356
22. Ibid.
23. Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, p.245
24. John-Paul Stonard’s essay on The Nude in Shone and Stonard (eds), The Books that Shaped Art History, Chapter 8, and Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art, p.110
25. Letter from Gertrud Bing to Clark, 31 January 1957, Tate 8812/1/4/314
26. Letter from Berenson, 9 December 1956, Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.433
27. Letter from Bowra to Clark, 10 December 1956, I Tatti
28. See Nead, The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality
29. See John-Paul Stonard’s essay on The Nude in Shone and Stonard (eds), The Books that Shaped Art History, Chapter 8, and Clark, The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art
30. See Clark’s ‘Motives’ in Meiss (ed.), Problems of the 19th and 20th Centuries: Studies in Western Art, pp.189–205
31. Letter to Janet Stone, 31 July 1961, Bodleian Library
32. BBC, ‘Interview with Basil Taylor’, 8 October 1974, British Library National Sound Archive, Disc 196
33. Letter to Janet Stone, 23 July 1967, Bodleian Library
34. Letter to Janet Stone, 29 October 1961, Bodleian Library
35. Letter to Janet Stone, 12 September 1966, Bodleian Library. Francis Haskell and Michael Jaffé were to become the respective heads of the art history departments at Oxford and Cambridge
36. Erwin Panofsky (1892–1968). Letter to Sir Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press, 9 July 1942, Tate 8812/1/1/3
37. Letter to Noel Annan, 6 April 1951, Tate 8812/1/1/207
38. Letter to Antal, 20 May 1949, Tate 8812/1/2/222
39. ‘Apologia of an Art Historian’, the inaugural address on the occasion of his election as President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh, 15 November 1950
40. Lecture, ‘Is the Artist Ever Free?’, Tate 8812/2/2/61
41. Clark, The Other Half, p.93
42. Review, ‘Stories of Art’, New York Review of Books, 24 November 1977
43. Letter from Audrey Scales to author, 25 July 2014
44. Letter to Janet Stone, 11 September 1957, Bodleian Library
45. Professor Christopher Brown, the former director of the Ashmolean Museum, told the author that it was reading Ruskin Today that made him want to become an art historian
46. Interview with author
47. Lugt was the author of the Louvre Rembrandt catalogue
48. Letter to Janet Stone, 4 February 1964, Bodleian Library
49. Interview with author
50. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 August 1966, Bodleian Library: ‘No idea how Rembrandt will be received – the few who have read it seem pleased only they don’t seem to cotton on to the thing I value most – that it is an attempt to study the creative process’
51. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 October 1966, Bodleian Library
Chapter 27: Inventing Independent Television: ‘A Vital Vulgarity’
1. Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.417
2. Sunday Times, 8 July 1973
3. There was already a growing audience for commercial radio stations based in Luxembourg and Normandy
4. Interview in John Wyver’s film K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, 1993
5. Bow Dialogue with Betty McCulloch, 14 October 1975, British Library National Sound Archive
6. Tate 8812/2/2/1029
7. Interview with author
8. Interview with author. Sir Denis Forman (1917–2013) became the driving force behind Granada Television
9. Letter to Janet Stone, 4 August 1954, Bodleian Library
10. Clark, The Other Half, p.140
11. Interview with author
12. Sendall, Independent Television in Britain: Vol. I, p.59
13. Ibid., p.66, memo, 25 September 1954
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p.87
16. Letter to Sir Robert Renwick of ABDC, 25 November 1954. Renwick was in negotiation with the News of the World and the Daily Express. Bournemouth ITA Archive, Box 750 IBA/01204. It was the rejection of the ABDC as a newspaper owner that caused Sir Charles Colston to resign
17. In the end the Kemsley Group did not proceed
18. Speech, 27 July 1956, quoted in Sendall, Independent Television in Britain: Vol. I, p.149
19. In April 1956 ATV directors went to see Clark, as a crisis was looming. The company was losing £1 million a year, and its capitalisation needed reconstruction
20. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 September 1955, Bodleian Library
21. Letter to Janet Stone, 17 December 1955, Bodleian Library
22. Letter to BBC director George Barnes, 7 September 1957, King’s College, Cambridge GRB/1/1/9
23. Interview with Willa Petschek, New York Times, 3 May 1976. Sidney Bernstein at Granada was based in Manchester. His company gave the world Coronation Street. ATV produced the equally popular Emergency Ward 10
24. Interview in John Wyver’s film K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, 1993
25. Interview with author
26. See Bournemouth ITA Archive, ITA 55/30
27. Quoted in Sendall, Independent Television in Britain: Vol. I, p.112
28. ‘From the Few to the Many’, a lecture on broadcasting that Clark gave in differing forms, Tate 8812/1/2/4893
29. Letter to Lord Hill, 30 May 1956, ITA 2008
30. See Fraser memo, 7 March 1955, ITA 55/30
31. Such a programme subsequently existed. Memo, 11 August 1956, ITA Box 254
32. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 August 1956, Bodleian Library
33. Letter to Janet Stone, 22 August 1956, Bodleian Library
34. Letter to Janet Stone, 13 November 1956, Bodleian Library
35. Hill, Both Sides of the Hill: The Memoirs of Charles Hill, Lord Hill of Luton, p.169
36. Letter to Berenson, 7 September 1957, I Tatti
37. Pilkington Report, 1962, Vol. II, Appendix E, p.1113
38. Sendall, Independent Television in Britain: Vol. I, p.113
39. Interview in John Wyver’s film K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, 1993
Chapter 28: The Early Television Programmes
1. Clark, The Other Half, p.214
2. BBC, The Future of Television, transmitted 1 November 1957
3. See John Wyver, ‘Kenneth Clark: A Selected Filmography’ in ‘Looking for Civilisation’ catalogue, 2014
4. Interview with author
5. Ibid.
6. Letter from Robert Peace Heller to Clark, 19 September 1957, Tate 8812/1/4/32
7. Letter to Benjamin Britten, 17 January 1958, Britten/Pears Archive
8. Clark wrongly stated that this dog belonged to his other son, Alan
9. Clark, The Other Half, p.207
10. Letter to Quentin Lawrence, 18 March 1958, Tate 8812/1/4/72
11. Ibid.
12. Interview with author
13. Broadcast 1 December 1958
14. Interview with author
15. Ibid.
16. Letter to author from Audrey Scales, 6 October 2014
17. Interview with author
18. Ibid.
19. Letter to Ben Nicolson, 26 July 1974, Tate 8812/1/4/68
20. BBC Radio London, 27 August 1976, British Library Sound Archive
21. News Chronicle, December 1959, Tate 8812, Press cuttings
22. Interview with Fram Dinshaw in John Wyver’s film K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, 1993
23. Letter to Robert Heller, 24 February 1959, Tate 8812/1/4/32
24. Letter to Robert Heller, 14 January 1960, Tate 8812/1/4/32
25. Letter to Clark from Robert Heller, 27 March 1960, Tate 8812/1/4/32
26. Letter to Janet Stone, 19 September 1964, Bodleian Library
27. Letter to Clark from J.R. Ackerley, 17 December 1964, Tate 8812/1/3/1–50
28. ATV had generally paid Clark £600 a programme. See Tate 8812/1/4/408
29. Letter to Janet Stone, 8 April 1966, Bodleian Library
30. According to Cecil Beaton, Clark was told to delete the word ‘sycophants’ when describing the courtiers of Henry VIII. See Vickers (ed.), Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, pp.164–5 (entry for 24 December 1966)
31. Letter to Lord Crawford, 10 October 1966, Tate 8812/1/4/140
32. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 February 1966, Bodleian Library
33. ‘You know I had the same crew throughout; Tubby [Englander] has received lots of praise, and deservedly, but more should be said about Ken Macmillan who has the best eye of the lot.’ See letter to Anthony de Lotbinière, 27 February 1969, Tate 8812/1/4/98b
34. Interview with author
35. Letter to Janet Stone, 21 October 1966, Bodleian Library
36. Vickers (ed.), Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, pp.164–5 (entry for 24 December 1966)
37. Letter to Clark from David Windlesham, 20 October 1966, Tate 8812/1/4/408
38. Letter from Michael Adeane to Clark, 24 October 1966, Tate 8812/1/4/408
39. Vickers (ed.), Beaton in the Sixties: More Unexpurgated Diaries, pp.164–5 (entry for 24 December 1966)
Chapter 29: Saltwood: The Private Man
1. Letter to Janet Stone, 13 December 1954, Bodleian Library
2. Letter to Berenson, 16 November 1957, Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.450
3. I owe much of this account to the former Saltwood archivist, Margaret Slythe
4. Notes by Margaret Slythe sent to author, 23 January 2012
5. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.23
6. Letter to Janet Stone, 4 March 1959, Bodleian Library
7. Letter to Janet Stone, 8 June 1959, Bodleian Library
8. Later Lord and Lady Sainsbury of Preston Candover
9. Interview with Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover
10. John Mallet, private diary, 2 September 1963
11. Letter to Janet Stone, 5 July 1964, Bodleian Library
12. Interview with author
13. Clark, The Other Half, pp.200–1
14. Notes given to the author
15. Letter to Janet Stone, 30 December 1965, Bodleian Library
16. Letter to Janet Stone, Christmas 1957, Bodleian Library
17. Letter to Janet Stone, 28 December 1958, Bodleian Library
18. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.12
19. Letter to Major Villiers, 24 February 1970, Tate 8812/1/4/398
20. He gave a lecture for them, entitled ‘The Image of Christ: Painting and Sculpture’, at Canterbury Cathedral, 4 November 1970
21. Letter to Janet Stone, 21 October 1954, Bodleian Library
22. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.209
23. Trewin, Alan Clark: The Biography, p.87
24. Letter from Berenson, 27 December 1957, Cumming (ed.), My Dear BB, p.452
25. Letter to Berenson, 14 July 1958, ibid., p.458
26. Interview with Audrey Scales
27. Letter to Janet Stone, 10 April 1960, Bodleian Library
28. Interview with author
29. Colin Clark, Younger Brother, Younger Son, p.8
30. Letter to Janet Stone, 5 June 1960, Bodleian Library
31. Violette Verdy rose to become the director of the Paris Ballet
32. Letter to Janet Stone, 21 February 1961, Bodleian Library
33. Letter to Janet Stone, 27 March 1961, Bodl
eian Library
34. Clark, The Other Half, p.192
35. Faith was the daughter of a diplomat, Sir Paul Wright
36. Undated, C.M. Bowra Archive, Wadham College, Oxford
37. When Jane became too lame to use the stairs, the Clarks moved to a ground-floor set
38. Interview with author. Joan Dawson was the Albany cook from the late 1960s through the 1970s, until Clark gave up the apartment
39. Interview with author
40. Ibid.
41. Ibid.
42. Ibid.
43. Letter to Janet Stone, 3 March 1957, Bodleian Library
44. Letter to Janet Stone, 26 April 1956, Bodleian Library
45. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 August 1956, Bodleian Library
46. Interview in John Wyver’s film K: Kenneth Clark 1903–1983, 1993
47. John Mallet, private diary, 2 September 1963
48. Michael Levey, obituary of Kenneth Clark, Proceedings of the British Academy, Vol. LXX, 1984
49. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 October 1966, Bodleian Library
50. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 May 1954, Bodleian Library
51. Interview with Catherine Porteous
52. Letter to Janet Stone, 7 February 1954, Bodleian Library
53. Letter to Janet Stone, 2 July 1954, Bodleian Library
54. Letter to Janet Stone, 27 August 1956, Bodleian Library
55. Clark wrote the Introduction to Reynolds’ book on engraved work published by John Murray in 1977
56. Email to author from Margaret Slythe
57. Letter to Janet Stone, 24 July 1956, Bodleian Library
58. Letter to Janet Stone, 16 March 1958, Bodleian Library. Letter from Myfanwy Piper, 12 March 1958, Tate 8812/1/3/2520
59. On the other hand there is an undated letter, c.March 1956, to Berenson from Washington, in which Clark describes making friends with Jayne Wrightsman
60. Interview with author
61. Jayne Wrightsman to Clark, undated, set of eight postcards (first one missing) at Saltwood. A greater mystery surrounds a set of intimate letters from Mrs Wrightsman at the Tate Archive. These were seen by Dr Fram Dinshaw at the end of a snowy afternoon c.January 1990. Even a hasty reading left him with the distinct impression that Jayne had been seriously contemplating elopement. On his next visit to the archive the letters had been removed from circulation, and they remain unavailable. Jayne Wrightsman paid for the Clark Archive at the Tate to be catalogued
62. Letter to Janet Stone, 25 June 1968, Bodleian Library