| Collection Name | Himid, Lubaina |
| RefNo | TGA 202310/36/8 |
| Level | File |
| Title | Cover letter from Virginia Button, assistant keeper Modern Collection, Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, to Lubaina Himid, Preston, Lancashire, enclosing photocopy of her correspondence with Olive Bree, Newbury, Berkshire |
| Date | 1 Feb 1996 |
| Date Note | Copied letters dated 23 January and 1 February 1996 |
| Extent | 2 items |
| Access Status | OPEN |
| Location | Manuscript collection |
| Description | In the cover letter, Button thanks Himid for her eloquent talk on the subject of her Tate work 'Between the two my heart is balanced' (T06947)at Tate Gallery the previous week, and Maud Sulter for sending the 'Alba' CD, which Button is arranging for her colleagues in the Modern Collection to hear.
The enclosure - Inspired by review in 'The Times' of Tate's display 'Picturing Blackness in British art' (co-curated by Button with Paul Gilroy, and featuring work by Himid), Bree asks for advice in researching her great-grandfather John Richards (d 1924), who emigrated to England from Bermuda. He worked as an artist's model, possibly for an artist in Bond Street, and may have been the subject of a picture exhibited in the Royal Academy.
Button replies with a list of possible sources, including books by Ronald Segal, Gretchen Gerzina, and Peter Fryer; experts David Dabydeen and Rupert Maas; National Portrait Gallery archive; parish and civil records; African and Asian Visual Artist Archive; School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and Lubaina Himid, copied into Button's reply. |
| Format | Document - correspondence |
| Language | English |