Coffee with the Collection: Duncan Grant

Karen Bowles, FJJMA's Community Learning Coordinator, discusses Duncan Grant’s portrait of Vanessa Bell from the museum’s permanent collection. Both Grant and Bell were painters, designers, and active members of the unconventional Bloomsbury Group, an informal collective of writers, artists, and thinkers that also included Virginia Woolf, E.M. Forster, and John Maynard Keynes. Learn more about the artistic and personal relationship of these two British Post-Impressionists in this coffee talk!
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[@andrewnorris1]

I love Charleston, I helped work on the restoration of the house in the mid 80s over two summers, camping by the pond. An unforgettable experience. I am fortunate enough to have a Grant drawing, its the first thing I see when I wake in the morning. This was a lovely lecture, thank you!

[@denisehay8895]

Thank you for this brilliant exploration of the Bloomsbury group artists. I have visited Charleston farmhouse several times and can assure you a treat is in store if you decide to make the journey. I also read Angelica Garnett's very honest autobiography 'Deceived by kindness' and can recommend that too. She portrays a somewhat less than idyllic childhood.

[@MrPusey1]

Thank you for such a fascinating introduction!

[@londonartweek7871]

Great Talk!

[@MargaretHillsdeZ]

Duncan Grant was Scottish. He was a grandson of Sir John Peter Grant, 12th Laird of Rothiemurchus, near Aviemore. in the highlands.

[@barbarablue2571]

True father of the 3rd daughter of Vanessa Woolf