- Wikidata identifier:
- Q1739999
- Also known as:
- Kettle's Yard Museum and Art Gallery, University of Cambridge
- Instance of:
- art museum; art gallery; academic archive; university museum
- Museum/collection status:
- Accredited Museum
- Accreditation number:
- 694
- Persistent shareable link for this record:
- https://museumdata.uk/museums/q1739999/
Collection-level records:
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Collection overview (Cornucopia)
Fine Art
Ede’s friendship with Ben Nicholson led to his acquiring 22 paintings by him between 1924 and Nicholson’s death in 1982. Through Nicholson, Ede acquired works by many of the artists associated with St Ives, including Christopher Wood, Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and over 100 works by Alfred Wallis. Later works representing the St Ives School include those by William Scott and Roger Hilton; In 1936 Ede purchased the majority of the estate of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska from his companion, Sophie Brzeska. This laid the foundations of the Kettle’s Yard. The collection of H S (Jim) Ede comprises around 1,200 works of 20th century English and European art collected by Ede during the 1920’s and 1930’s while he was at the Tate Gallery, and during the 1950’s and 1960’s wile he was in Cambridge. Much of his collection was acquired from his friends and contacts and includes paintings by Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, David Jones, Joan Mir and many others, along with sculpture by artists including Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Constantin Brancusi, Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, studio ceramics, artists textiles and glass engraving. There is also a library and an archive collection. The collections were given to the University of Cambridge in 1966 and have been added to occasionally since Ede left Cambridge in 1973. For sixteen years, Kettle’s Yard was the home of Jim Ede, a former curator at the Tate Gallery, London, and his wife, Helen. It houses Ede’s collection of art, mostly of the first half of the twentieth century. Paintings and sculpture are interlaced with furniture, glass, ceramics and natural objects. Ede’s vision of Kettle’s Yard was of a place that was not an art gallery or museum, nor simply a collection of works of art reflecting my taste or the taste of a given period. It is, rather, a continuing way of life from these last fifty years, in which stray objects, stones, glass, pictures, sculpture, in light and in space, have been used to make manifest the underlying stability.
Source: Cornucopia
Date: Not known, but before 2015
Licence: CC BY-NC