Wyndham Lewis collection
| Record No. | SC252 |
| Main Entry | Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 |
| Title | Wyndham Lewis collection |
| Dates | 1945-1956 |
| Physical Description | 1 cm of textual records. |
| Bio/Admin History | (Percy) Wyndham Lewis was an artist, writer, and critic. He was born on a yacht in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia. He studied at the Slade School of Art, London. With Ezra Pound, Lewis founded Blast (1914-15), the magazine of Vorticism. His writings include the novel The Apes of God (1930), and The Human Age (1955-6); literary criticism including Men Without Art (1934), and autobiographical books, such as Blasting and Bombardiering (1937). His produced works include abstract art, a series of war pictures, and portraits. |
| Scope and Content | The collection consists of: 2 leaves of ts with holograph corrections of explanatory notes on the Plates for The Demon of Progress in the Arts (1954); 10 leaves of ts with holograph revisions of "Chapter i: The "do-nothing mode"" (about Lewis's father); 21 leaves of carbon ts with holograph corrections of chapters 4-6 of Painting as a Sport ; 7 leaves of carbon ts with holograph corrections with a note to "Mrs. Gilliat"; 3 leaves of a holograph review of Swabey's "The English Church and Usury"; 19 leaves of a ts review with holograph corrections of Harry Slochower's No Voice is Wholley Lost. |
| Title Source | Title based on the contents of the collection. |
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| Notes | See also the Wyndham Lewis subject file in the Cyril James Fox fonds. |
| Provenance | University of Victoria (B.C.). Libraries. Special Collections, collector |
| Repository | University of Victoria Libraries Special Collections |
| Subject Headings | Art Authors, English--20th century English literature--20th century English poetry--20th century Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 |
| Related Links | Art Collections Literature Collections The Lion and the Fox: Art and Literary Works by Wyndham Lewis from the C.J. Fox Collection |