IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1744 BANKSIDE
Held at: Bankside Gallery
Title: Bankside Gallery
Date(s): 1980-present
Level of description: Collection (fonds)
Extent: 120 boxes
Name of creator(s): Bankside Gallery Charitable Limited Company
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
The Bankside Gallery Charitable Limited Company was formed in 1980 by the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE). These two societies had a close association and had shared premises since 1888, and also had members in common. In 1980, the lease on their current premises - 26 Conduit St, London, expired, and the Societies transferred to the Bankside site.
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Records of the Bankside Gallery comprising: committee minutes, financial records, administrative records, files on exhibitions held at the Gallery, 1980-present; and press cutting collection 1980-2002.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Conditions governing access:
By appointment. Bontact the Archivist in the first instance, Bankside Gallery, 48 Hopton St, Blackfriars, London SE1 9JH. 3.4.2 Conditions governing reproduction: At the discretion of the Archivist
Conditions governing reproduction:
At the discretion of the Archivist
Physical characteristics:
Finding aids:
The material is uncatalogued.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Material generated by the Gallery and held in situ.
ALLIED MATERIALS
Related material:
Royal Watercolour Society and Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, also held at Bankside Gallery.
Publication note:
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Sources: Historical Manuscripts Commission's On-Line National Register of Archives; The business of watercolour, a guide to the archives of the Royal Watercolour Society, Simon Fenwick and Greg Smith, (Ashgate, Aldershot, 1997). Compiled by Alison Field as part of the London Signpost Survey Project.
Date(s) of descriptions: August 2003