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Message to Rostow from Ben Read
No full textMessage to Rostow from Ben Read asking for White House clearance of attached message
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Ben H. Read responds to Dr. Hector P. Garcia about the Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments considerations
No full textBen H. Read, Executive Secretary for the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, on behalf of Mrs. Carter in response to his previous correspondence and assures that the Advisory Board still has Ambassador Valdez in consideration
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Ben H. Read acknowledges Dr. Hector P. Garcia's recommendation for the next United States Ambassador to Mexico
No full textBen H. Read, Executive Secretary for the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, on behalf of the President to acknowledge the receipt of Garcia's recommendation on the next United States Ambassador to Mexico
Ben Nicholson 1894-1982
No full textPatrick Heron, Felicitas Vogler, Leslie Martin, Andras Kalman, and Angela Verren each reminisce about Ben Nicholson whom Heron claims "was the greatest English painter since Turner". Photographs of Ben Nicholson at various stages of his life. John Read VO says that Nicholson has been called "the man who re-drew the map of English painting" and says that the events leading up to this were witnessed by his father, Herbert Read. Cover of edition of Axis from 1935. Page from magazine showing Nicholson’s Carved Relief in White (1935). He "changed the whole idea of what painting should be"; commentary reads from Axis article by H. Read, explaining different techniques employed: landscapes, a collage, paintings. A photograph of Nicholson carving out shapes in wood. White Relief (1936). A sculpture in gardens. Biographical information – photographs of his parents, both of whom were artists, Sir William Nicholson and Mabel Pryde; Ben Nicholson portrait by his mother (c.1910-1914). Leslie Martin points out that Nicholson was born into the art world – family group by Sir William Orpen (A Bloomsbury Family, 1907). Photograph of Nicholson. Kalman talking about Nicholson balancing being an "English gentleman" as well as a member of the avant-garde and supporter of the modern movement. He believes Nicholson reacted against his father’s work. Painting by William Nicholson; Mushrooms (1940). Some still life paintings with Ben Nicholson’s words over on what he learned from his father. Collection of goblets, bottles, jugs, which Nicholson inherited from his father and claimed influenced his move to abstract art. Various works incorporating images of some of these.
Photograph of Winifred Roberts Nicholson. 1921- circa 1923 (Cortivallo, Lugano) (1921-c.1923), where they often spent the winter. Land- and seascapes. Trout (1924), a completely abstract picture, in which the stripes were based on one of his father’s jugs (shown). Picasso’s Bouteille, Guitare, Pipe (1912) which had a profound effect on Nicholson. Christopher Wood’s Self Portrait (1927) and a seascape. Photographs of the Nicholsons’ house in Cumberland; flower painting by Winifred Nicholson showing view from the window; landscapes and a flower painting by Ben Nicholson, as well as another landscape by Winifred, mostly from around 1927. Sailing Boat on a River (1929) by Winifred; a view down the river Fal by Ben (1929). Photograph of Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. Commentary on Nicholson’s reviving commitment to Abstraction and his "love affair with Parisian painting". Au Chat Botté (1932), "the key picture"; details with Nicholson’s thoughts about the composition read over. Various pictures "the most personal of his career" and "in complete contrast to the total abstraction that followed", including more or the jugs, 1932 (girl in a mirror - drawing) (1932), and composite views of himself and Hepworth. Photograph of their shared studio, photograph of Herbert Read, who lived next door to them in Hampstead where there was "an immense concentration of revolutionary aesthetic power". Exterior Mall Studios, Henry Moore’s flat in Parkhill Road, Blue Plaque to Piet Mondrian, Paul Nash’s house in Eldon Road; commentary points to European artists who were taking refuge in London. Nash’s Equivalents for the Megaliths (1935). Naum Gabo’s Construction through a Plane (Construction on a Plane) (1937). Hepworth’s Three Forms (1935). Top of a sculpture by Moore.
Photograph of Mondrian’s studio; Nicholson’s memories, particularly of the artist’s "silences" over. Mondrian’s Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue (1921). Maxwell Fry’s Sun House (1935) and Lawn Road Flats (1934) by Wells Coates, both buildings of the Modern movement, in Hampstead. Cover of Circle - International Survey Of Constructive Art (1937); co-editor Leslie Martin says that they believed in "some kind of parallel between developments in painting, sculpture, architecture, science too" and hoped to put this kind of "positive, Constructive" work together in a single publication which would "speak for itself". Nicholson quoted, "We’ve got to get rid of the degenerate idea that painting is something to be made on a four-square stretched canvas…" over abstract; black and white reproduction of 1939-44 (painted relief) (1939-1944); another relief. Nicholson quoted, saying that "it’s passion, not patience…" which produces art; photograph of him at work. Martin describes going to an exhibition of contemporary art in the mid-1930s, and seeing three painted reliefs by Nicholson; he explains why he likes the painting he subsequently bought (shown). Similar painting; commentary says Nicholson "began to reintroduce colour" to his work, "refusing to restrict his artistic freedom by any kind of formal theory". Commentary quotes Winifred Nicholson on "the nature of abstract colour" over more abstracts; details. June 1937 (painting) (1937). Felicitas Vogler says that Nicholson liked soft, pastel colours: 1938 (painting - version 1). Commentary says that the artists of the Modern movement dispersed on the advent of war, and the movement itself was "virtually at an end".Views of St Ives, where Nicholson, Hepworth, and their children, went to live; Nicholson quoted over. Landscape: commentary says that this, "the nature of the light, the colours, the textures, and the sense of space were especially exciting to the modern artists who moved down there". Patrick Heron talks about the importance of environment to the artist, particularly of West Cornwall to the mid-twentieth century artist. Nicholson’s studio showing lighting and notes he made. Heron shows some of the items he found there, including the compasses he used to draw his circular shapes.
Early painting of St Ives bay; sketch of similar view with foreshortened perspective. Photograph of Alfred Wallis; his cottage. Painting by Wallis; Heron talking about Wallis’s work, its relevance to contemporary artists, and Nicholson’s attraction to it. Schooner, Fishing Boat and Lighthouse. Heron relates anecdote concerning Nicholson’s attitude to his work.
View of St Ives. Nicholson’s St Ives (1940-1946). Landscape sketch; film of same view. Landscape with jugs. Sketch of ship off St Ives links; film of similar view including churchyard; other sketches of subjects in the churchyard. Commentary notes that "the Cornish views were often framed in a window" with superimposed jugs and vases: More houses and landscapes with jugs and mugs superimposed including 1945 (St. Ives) (1945). Heron says "this device of the window" derives from Cubism, particularly the work of Braque and Picasso, and describes how Nicholson extended it by superimposing the jugs, etc. St Ives bay; rooftops; the rooftop cabin from which Nicholson drew many of his local views. Heron talks about Nicholson’s "restrained passion" and "work ethic". St Ives’s street; view over town and bay. Vogler talks about their move to Switzerland in 1958. Mountains, Ticino, Lake Maggiore. The Nicholsons’ house. Vogler VO talking about this "new chapter in his life". Photograph of Nicholson. Vogler with small framed painting explains how Nicholson thought out and made his reliefs; photographs of Nicholson working. Various reliefs. View of lake. Vogler on the "feeling" conveyed by the paintings.
Landscape sketch; commentary on Nicholson’s subsequent travelling and "continual flow of drawings" over the next twenty years. More sketches and drawings, some from Greece or Turkey, including 1967 (Patmos Monastery) (1967); Italian subjects; Vogler describes how Nicholson would absorb atmosphere before beginning work; photographs of him drawing. Drawings; view from the Ticino house. Yorkshire church and drawing. Photograph of Nicholson walking in the Dales. Rievaulx Abbey, which "inspired some of his finest drawings": view of the ruins and drawing of the same aspect. River. Leslie Martin’s converted mill at Great Shelford, Cambridgeshire, where Nicholson stayed after leaving Switzerland in 1971. Angela Verren talks about Nicholson’s love of certain parts of the English countryside. Nicholson’s flat in Hampstead. Verren explains how Nicholson’s purchase of his plumber’s tools set him off on a new creative period, in which he produced oil-washed drawings based on their shapes. The "five forms" side by side; Verren describes the differences between the different pictures, some of which she feels have "rather an aggressive quality": others images of these shapes.
Heron talks about the "small paintings" of Nicholson’s last years which "looked like Indian ink and 6B pencil", and "the configuration [of which] was new … there’s nothing more difficult than to discover a new way of dividing up this rectangle … [Nicholson] was breaking new ground…". Jugs and mugs including May 1978 (single jug) (1978). May 1978 (shadows and lilac) (1978). Exterior of Nicholson’s last home, at Pilgrim’s Lane, Hampstead. Photograph of his collection of glassware and mugs, etc. Verren says that he had trouble with his eyes which made it difficult for him to work, and that he needed companionship and a tranquil atmosphere. Heron describes seeing a "late Picasso" alongside a Nicholson of similar size and thinking that the latter "slightly overwhelmed" the latter. Andras Kalman talks about Nicholson’s work before 1933 and his ability to alternate abstraction with more representational images; he feels that, in the abstract painting, "the placing of the colours, the lines, have a perfection and an elegance which doesn’t appear in either Mondrian or Braque or Picasso … a unique contribution to twentieth century art". Commentary notes that Nicholson died before completing his last work, "a thirty-foot wall, built in Carrara marble, and based on one of his famous white reliefs", the Nicholson Wall, at Sutton Place, Surrey. Credit
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Ben M. Read thanks Dr. Hector P. Garcia on behalf of the president for his recommendation for the United States Ambassador to Mexico
No full textBen H. Read, Executive Secretary for the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, thanking him on behalf of the President for his telegram which recommended Abelardo Valedez as the next United States Ambassador to Mexico
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Ben H. Read responds to Dr. Hector P. Garcia on behalf of Rick Hernandez for his recommendation of the United States Ambassador to Mexico
No full textBen H. Read, Executive Secretary for the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, on behalf of Rick Hernandez regarding Garcia's recommendation of Abelardo Valdez as the United States Ambassador to Mexico
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Ben H. Read responds to Dr. Hector P. Garcia about his recommendation to the Advisory Board for the next United States Ambassador to Mexico
No full textBen H. Read, Executive Secretary for the Presidential Advisory Board on Ambassadorial Appointments, writes to Dr. Hector P. Garcia, Founder of the American G.I. Forum, on behalf of the President to respond to message of support for Abelardo Valdez as the next United States Ambassador to Mexico. He explains that Advisory Board has met and have forwarded their recommendations to the President
Patrick Heron. Interviewed by John Read
No full textCaption: "This interview took place in Patrick Heron’s studio in St. Ives, Cornwall, in September 1984. The main subject was the work of Ben Nicholson and parts are included in the Arts Council Film ‘Ben’, directed by John Read on the life of Ben Nicholson." Patrick Heron talks about his connection with St. Ives to which his family first moved in 1925; gives some of his family background; about some drawings from the early period, one similar to those painted later by Alfred Wallis who first came to St. Ives in 1928. About Ben Nicholson first meeting Wallis, the influence of Wallis’s work on him; descriptions of Wallis’s use of colour, typical of the British avant-garde movement. Heron talks about "education" for painting, best done by painters looking at other people’s paintings. Influences on Nicholson: his father, Winifred Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth. The arbitrary distinctions between figurative and non-figurative painting. Heron on Nicholson’s "white reliefs", intended to eliminate figuration; "with time, certain associations accrue to these images"; images are "read back into reality"; facts are relative in their significance and mean different things at different times. The influence on the design world of Nicholson’s organisation of pure circles with pure rectangles. Heron on Nicholson’s "line", comparing him favourably with Mondrian. Nicholson’s landscapes from Yorkshire and West Cornwall, both places from Heron’s past. On Nicholson’s need for privacy. Heron on Nicholson after he left St. Ives; his work in the 1940s; the influence of Georges Braque. On Nicholson’s still life work; how Cornwall, uniquely among British landscapes, has had an influence on the twentieth century British avant-garde; influence of Picasso and Braque. Nicholson’s "English-ness"; his delicacy (sometimes overdone), his speed. Elements of Cubism and Constructivism. "The greatest English painter since Turner." On Turner and Constable. Heron denies any mystical side to Nicholson. On symbols as opposed to images. On Mark Rothko talking about "grace". Nicholson being very down to earth if sometimes over-complex. On "draftsmanship"; execution and conception go together. He says that Nicholson thought that the meaning of a thing springs from its physical reality. Heron on Nicholson’s studio: neat and tidy, and rather "domesticated". He says he unconsciously organises objects in his own studio on a rectilinear grid. Heron can’t identify only a single paramount quality in Nicholson’s work. Talks about seeing a seven-foot late Picasso alongside a similarly-dimensioned Nicholson he hadn’t seen before, which he thought "slightly overwhelmed the Picasso". On Nicholson’s Swiss period, returning to reliefs and mixing different periods. He believes that the two last exhibitions were full of new and "fantastically inventive" work, breaking new ground. Heron on his comparison between Nicholson and Joan Miró. Talks about Nicholson being very depressed because of the way he was more or less ignored by the Press, and couldn’t sell his work; that he only started to sell in Switzerland. On Nicholson’s "official recognition" through an award of the Order of Merit. Heron on Nicholson’s "immensely strong" work ethic. Support for Nicholson and other artists through the writings of Herbert Read. Credits
Nurturing Talent. Final Report (full report and appendices
No full textWidening Participation in Higher Education requires effective interaction between higher education institutions and under-represented communities. Such interaction has traditionally taken the form of outreach events/school visits by the university aimed at promoting engagement, or one-off visits by a few selected ‘master class’ students to the campus for a tour or lecture. However, this approach doesn’t take into account cultural barriers that may exist in communities without a tradition of higher education. These barriers often prevent the students from considering university study as relevant or their parents being willing or able to support their children in their aspirations. This report evaluates a year-long programme of weekend sessions – the Nurturing Talent Programme - delivered by volunteer graduate mentors of Somali origin with the intention of inspiring young students from the Somali community of Brent, as well as furnishing them with the skills and knowledge required to access higher education. Through a series of academic and soft-skill based workshops delivered in the local secondary school (Capital City Academy)1 and visits to universities and museums, these volunteers have had a huge impact on the students they have been mentoring. Our evidence shows that the students’ attitudes towards university and their own potential place in HE have improved significantly, and that there has been a perceptible increase in maturity in the students’ attitudes towards their future. Furthermore, teachers have reported that many of the youngsters have demonstrated improved academic performance over the course of a year, which appears to be directly related to the impact of the Nurturing Talent program.The positive outcomes have been the consequence of three key features of the program:i) The involvement of mentors from the Somali community, who are graduates or are engaged in university study, showed the students that they can genuinely aspire to engage in university study.ii) Visits to universities had a significant impact on the students by introducing them to potential fellow students from a range of backgrounds and giving familiarity with the environment and they would be going into. Visits which included an element of hands-on activity (rather than talk/tour sessions) clearly had the biggest impact on aspirations.iii) The involvement of parents engendered notable enthusiasm during the programme, which is highly significant given the important role played by parents in encouraging/supporting their children. It was clear that parents’ knowledge of the UK education system and the opportunities available to their children was limited at the start of the project, with most of them having moved to the UK during adulthood. At the end of the programme, the positive attitudes of the youngsters had influenced the parents, who were also more confident about HE process
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Memorandum for Ben Read
No full textMemorandum for Ben Read. Attached message approved by President Johnson to be sent from him to Prime Minister Krag
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