Stokes, Adrian

  • Stokes, Adrian Durham, 1902-1972
Date:
1946-1958
Reference:
GC/126
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Photocopies of letters from Melanie Klein, 1946-1958

Publication/Creation

1946-1958

Physical description

1 file Paper

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically

Acquisition note

These letters were given to the Contemporary Medical Archives Centre (now the library at Wellcome Collection) by Betty Joseph of the Melanie Kein Trust in 1991

Biographical note

Adrian Durham Stokes (1902-1972), painter and writer, was analysed by Melanie Klein for seven years during the 1930s and again for a brief period 1946-1947. He applied her psychoanalytic ideas to aesthetic theory in a number of influential works published during the 1950s and 1960s. A more detailed account of his career may be found in the Dictionary of National Biography, 1971-1980.

Related material

At Wellcome Collection: Melanie Klein's papers (ref. PP/KLE). They do not include any correspondence with Stokes.

Copyright note

Originals are held by the Tate Gallery Archive who should be consulted about permission

Where to find it

Location of original

Originals held among the Adrian Stokes papers in Tate Gallery Archive: TGA 8816. Papers comprise notebooks, correspondence and papers, 1916-72.
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Accession number

  • 379