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vii, 71 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 28 cm

Art as healing / Edward Adamson, in association with John Timlin ; with a foreword by Anthony Stevens.

Material relating to Edward Adamson's pioneering work using art to treat mental illness, including art therapy lecture notes, photographs and slides of works from the Adamson Collection, leaflets, articles, correspondence, notebooks and drawings. Section A includes correspondence around the plans to increase Adamson's salary in the 1950s (of Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt's initiative), letters from Susan Hogan and Irene Champernowne, postcards from the artist Rolanda Polonska. Section C contains over 600 slides and photos of the works from the Adamson Collection, some of these are the only surviving record of the objects lost or destroyed.

Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)

Some people on the left are shown from behind, while others on the right, seen from the front, have blank faces

Adamson Collection

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache ; sheet 55.9 x 45.8 cm

Netherne Hospital, Surrey: buildings of the hospital and, in the foreground, staff (and patients?) of the hospital with their faces obscured. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

A woman is drinking at the bar after walking her dog. The barmaid dressed in black stands behind the bar. Behind her, a view through to another bar in which several people are drinking. Left and right, tanks of ornamental fish

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache ; sheet 55.5 x 45.5 cm

A bar in an English public house on a Sunday morning. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1968.

The items left on the ground include several grey top-hats as well as food and wine

1 painting : watercolour, with gouache ; sheet 55.8 x 46.1 cm

Ascot race-course, Berkshire: spectators have abandoned their food and drink outside a tent and have turned to watch the horses racing past. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

vii, 68 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 x 28 cm

The baby is represented by a pram, the child by a toy car, the boy by a bicycle, the youth by a convertible car, the parent by a Daimler Sovereign or similar car, maturity by a sports car, and age by a Bath chair

1 painting : watercolour ; sheet 55.9 x 45.7 cm

The seven ages of man, represented by vehicles appropriate to each age. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

Contains works called variously "Outsider art", "Art brut", etc.

approximately 5,000 (?) items : paintings and drawings

Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

1 painting : gouache, with pencil ; sheet 55.7 x 45.8 cm

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Art as healing / Edward Adamson, in association with John Timlin ; with a foreword by Anthony Stevens.

Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)

Netherne Hospital, Surrey: buildings of the hospital and, in the foreground, staff (and patients?) of the hospital with their faces obscured. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

A bar in an English public house on a Sunday morning. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1968.

Ascot race-course, Berkshire: spectators have abandoned their food and drink outside a tent and have turned to watch the horses racing past. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

Art as healing / Edward Adamson, in association with John Timlin ; with a foreword by Anthony Stevens.

The seven ages of man, represented by vehicles appropriate to each age. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

A standing woman composed of white triangles and rhomboids, against a patterned brick wall. Gouache by Muriel Lewis, 1968.

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Art as healing / Edward Adamson, in association with John Timlin ; with a foreword by Anthony Stevens.

Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)

Netherne Hospital, Surrey: buildings of the hospital and, in the foreground, staff (and patients?) of the hospital with their faces obscured. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

A bar in an English public house on a Sunday morning. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1968.

Ascot race-course, Berkshire: spectators have abandoned their food and drink outside a tent and have turned to watch the horses racing past. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

Art as healing / Edward Adamson, in association with John Timlin ; with a foreword by Anthony Stevens.

The seven ages of man, represented by vehicles appropriate to each age. Watercolour by Muriel Lewis, 1967.

Adamson Collection: subjects arising in the course of art therapy sessions. Paintings and drawings by people with mental illness, with the support of Edward Adamson, ca. 1946-1990.

A standing woman composed of white triangles and rhomboids, against a patterned brick wall. Gouache by Muriel Lewis, 1968.

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