Thirty photographs of and related to
painter Dorothy Brett (British, 1883-1977) that include portraits of her, Aldous Huxley,
Ottoline Morrell, Alfred Stieglitz, and others.
Call Number:
PH-02896
Language:
English
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Administrative Information
Preferred Citation
Dorothy Brett Literary File Photography Collection (PH-02896). Harry Ransom Center,
The
University of Texas at Austin.
The collection consists of 30 photographs of and related to painter Dorothy Brett
(British,
1883-1977). Included are portraits and snapshots of Brett as well as prominent artists
and
writers that include Aldous Huxley, Ottoline Morrell, Alfred Stieglitz, Marsden Hartley,
John Marin, and Georgia O'Keeffe. An index at the end of this guide lists photographers
whose work is featured in this file. Further descriptions of some items may be available
in
a card catalog in the repository.
This file forms a part of the Literary File Collection that is comprised of photographs
and
albums withdrawn from the libraries and/or papers of literary figures, and generally
include
portraits and images collected by or of those figures.
Related Material
Additional materials by and about Brett are located in the Ransom Center's Library,
the
Dorothy Brett Collection (MS-00506), from which these photographs were likely transferred,
and the Dorothy Brett Art Collection (AR-00029).
Index Terms
Subjects
Brett, Dorothy, 1883-1977.
Gertler, Mark, 1891-1939.
Hartley, Marsden, 1877-1943.
Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963.
Marin, John, 1870-1953.
Morrell, Ottoline Violet Anne
Cavendish-Bentinck, Lady, 1873-1938.
