| Description | The archive consists of an album of photographs and over 200 loose photographs that record Rea and her sculpture. There is a series of correspondence and papers which covers the organisation of various exhibitions Rea took part in; papers and letters relating to the Huntington Anglo-Soviet Committee with which she was involved from the 1940s; and personal papers and letters to her long-term companion, Nancy Mayhew (Nan) Youngman (1906-1995) about Rea, after her death. There are over forty exhibition catalogues and private view cards, 1932-1992. Among these are the items associated with the Looking at People exhibitions, which took place between 1955-1957, and include the catalogue and poster to the exhibition when it travelled to the Pushkin Museum in the Soviet Union, 1957. There is a sketchbook, mainly with drawings of figures, some of which are related to her sculpture; over 100 press cuttings, mainly relating to exhibitions; seven articles about Rea, 1934-1991; and an undated list of her sculptures compiled by the artist. |