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A Charleston/Omega Screen Atlas. 2024. Inkjet prints on cotton; furnishing fabrics (linen/cotton/nylon blend); silk scarf; acrylic paint and gel medium on tarlatan, with wire, wool, glue, beads, and ribbon; hand embroidery with buttons on linen; needlepoint on plastic mesh; printed postcard; elements pinned to 3-panel folding screen (fabric, wood, hinges). 72.5 x 48 x 10 in. (184.2 x 121.9 x 25.4 cm)

Panel 1

1.   Vanessa Bell at Brandon Camp, 1913, from her own photo album (Tate Gallery, London).
2.   Vanessa Bell, 1914 (photograph by Ray Strachey).
3.   Vanessa Bell, Iris Tree, 1915, oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm (Tate Gallery, London, via private collection).
4.   Vanessa Bell wearing an Omega dress of her own design, undated (from Judith Collins, The Omega Workshops, London: Secker and Warburg, 1983, plate 55).
5.   “Vanessa Bell Silk Scarf,” retailed by the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; reproducing a work in SCMA’s collection: Vanessa Bell, Design for Furnishing Fabric, c. 1946, oil and graphite on paper, 18.625 x 19.375 in.
6.   Winifred Gill, Omega Workshops tie, 1915, painted silk (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
7.   Duncan Grant wearing a painted tie, undated, photograph by Vanessa Bell (The Charleston Trust, Lewes).
8.   Vanessa Bell, The Tub, 1918, woodcut, from Original Woodcuts by Various Artists, London: Omega Workshops (Hogarth Press Archive, Reading University Library).
9.   Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry’s dressing gown in Omega linen, in Fry’s “Amenophis” design, 1913 (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).
10. Roger Fry, “Amenophis” pattern, fabric swatch, 1912 (private collection).
11. Roger Fry, Amenophis, furnishing fabric produced for Omega Workshops (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
12. Duncan Grant’s studio at Charleston, Lewes, with Matisse poster (photograph by Alen MacWeeney, 1997).
13. Roger Fry, Cracow, 1913, jacquard-woven and block-printed wool and linen, made for Omega Workshops (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
14. Roger Fry, Cracow waistcoat, 1913, jacquard-woven and block-printed wool and linen, made for Omega Workshops (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
15. Vanessa Bell, Design for a Folding Screen, Adam and Eve, 1913–14, oil and pencil on paper, 35.6 x 50.8 cm (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
16. Roger Fry in the Omega Workshop studios, undated (photographer unknown).
17. Vanessa Bell’s attic studio at Charleston, undated (The Charleston Trust, Lewes).
18. Duncan Grant, Painted Omega Screen (front), 1913, oil on wood, each panel 70 x 20.25 in. (The Charleston Trust, Lewes).
19. Duncan Grant, Design for Embroidered Panel, c. 1926, oil on panel, 60 x 18 in. (private collection).
20. Vanessa Bell, dust-jacket designs for Virginia Woolf’s books, for The Hogarth Press: On Being Ill, 1930; The Waves, 1931; The Years, 1937; Between the Acts, 1941.
21. Roger Fry, Margery, 1913, printed linen furnishing fabric, made by Besselièvre, Maromme, France, for Omega Workshops (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).

Panel 2

22. Reproduction furnishing fabric: West Wind, designed by Duncan Grant, 1931 (for Allan Walton, Ltd.), retailed by Charleston Enterprises Limited.
23. Charleston, Lewes (photograph by Tony Tree, 2012).
24. Reproduction furnishing fabric: Clouds, designed by Duncan Grant, 1932 (for Allan Walton Ltd.), retailed by Charleston Enterprises Limited.
25. Elaine Reichek, Omega Flowers, 2024, acrylic paint and gel medium on tarlatan, with wire, wool, glue, beads, and ribbon.
26. Curtain, made with Clouds, designed by Duncan Grant, 1932 (for Allan Walton Ltd.), Charleston (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
27. Armchair in the library at Charleston, upholstered with Clouds, by Duncan Grant, 1932, in furnishing fabric reproduced by Laura Ashley (photograph by Pia Tryde, 1992).
28. Charleston garden (photograph by Alen MacWeeney, 1997).

Panel 3

29. Roger Fry at Brandon Camp, 1913, from Vanessa Bell’s photo album. (Tate Gallery, London)
30. Vanessa Bell, Abstract Painting, 1914, gouache and oil on canvas, 17.375 x 15.25 in. (Tate, London).
31. Vanessa Bell, Wild Tulips, oil on canvas, 17.75 x 14.5 in. (private collection).
32. Roger Fry, Still Life with Omega Flowers, 1919, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 17.75 in. (Tatham Art Gallery, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa).
33. Omega Workshops, Lilypond Table (designed by Duncan Grant), 1913–14, oil on wood, 125.5 x 72.5 x 80.5 cm (Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide).
34. Duncan Grant, Apollo and Daphne, 1932–33, screenprinted cotton and rayon furnishing
fabric, made by Allan Walton Textiles (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
35. Vanessa Bell, Tents, 1913, pencil and gouache on paper, mounted on canvas as four-panel screen, 178 x 208 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
36. Omega Lounge, at the Salon of Allied Artists Association, Holland Park Hall, 1914. 
37. Duncan Grant’s painting on the easel in his studio at Charleston, Lewes (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
38. Vanessa Bell, Design for Omega Workshops Fabric, 1913, watercolor, gouache, and graphite on paper, 53.3 x 40.7 cm (Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT).
39. Vanessa Bell, Omega Paper Flowers in a Bottle, c. 1915, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 33 cm (private collection).
40. Vanessa Bell, dust-jacket designs for Virginia Woolf’s books, for The Hogarth Press: Jacob’s Room, 1922; Mrs. Dalloway, 1925; To the Lighthouse, 1927; A Room of One’s Own, 1929.
41. Omega Workshops, “Ideal Home Room,” 1913 (Illustrated London News Picture Library).
42. Duncan Grant, Carpet, for Omega Workshop, 1913, knotted pile carpet, 60 x 60.5 cm (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
43. Vanessa Bell, Design for Omega Rug, 1914, oil on paper, 12 x 23.75 in. (private collection).