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. Elaine Reichek, disks on panels 1 and 3, made of wool yarn needlepoint on plastic mesh.
2. Vanessa Bell, Design for Small Screen, c. 1920, watercolor, tempera, pastel, ink, graphite with collage on paper, 55.2 x 76.5 cm (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto).
3. Vanessa Bell, Vase of Flowers Chairseat Cover, 1920s, needlepoint, in Duncan Grant’s bedroom at Charleston (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
4. Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and his mother, Mrs Ethel Grant, with a cat in Cassis, near Marseille, France, 1928 (Tate Gallery Archive, London).
5. Vanessa Bell, Bowl of Fruit Chairseat Cover, c. 1924, needlepoint, in Maynard Keynes’s bedroom at Charleston (photograph by Pia Tryde, 1992).
6. Elaine Reichek, “Virginia Woolf’s spectacle case,” hand-embroidered cotton thread on linen.
7. Duncan Grant, Design with a Giraffe for an embroidered cushion or seat cover [detail],
c. 1913, gouache and graphite on paper, 48 x 60.8 cm (The Courtauld Gallery, London).
8. Vanessa Bell, Ink Blotter, needlepoint, on her writing desk at Charleston (photograph by Pia Tryde, 1992).
9. Duncan Grant, Portrait of Ethel Grant at Tilton, 1942, oil on board, 18 x 15. in. (private collection).
10. Vanessa Bell, Abstract Cushion, 1925, needlepoint, sewn by Ethel Grant (The Charleston Trust, Lewes).
11. Vanessa Bell, Viginia Woolf, 1912, oil on board, 40 x 34 cm (National Portrait Gallery, London).
12. Venetian chair in the library at Charleston, upholstered with Grapes, by Duncan Grant, c. 1932, in reproduction furnishing fabric (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
13. Vanessa Bell, Portrait of Molly MacCarthy, 1912, oil on panel, 58.4 x 43.2 cm (private collection).
14. Vanessa Bell, Chairseat Cover, c. 1924, needlepoint, sewn by Ethel Grant, in Maynard Keynes’s bedroom, with a Lilypond Table designed by Duncan Grant, at Charleston
(photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
15. Vanessa Bell, Abstract Cushion, undated (photographer unknown).
16. Duncan Grant, Embroidered Music Stool Cover, 1925, needlepoint, sewn by Ethel Grant, in Grant’s bedroom at Charleston (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
Panel 2
17. Reproduction furnishing fabric: Grapes (Yellow colorway), designed by Duncan Grant, 1931 (for Allan Walton, Ltd.), retailed by Charleston Enterprises Limited.
18. Vanessa Bell, Self-Portrait, c. 1959, oil on canvas, 47.7 x 38.7 cm (The Charleston Trust, Lewes).
19. Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, The Music Room, 1932, installation at Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London, as illustrated in Derek Patmore, Colour Schemes for the Modern Home, 1933.
20. Duncan Grant, Self-Portrait, 1956, oil on board, 49.5 x 40 cm (private collection).
21. Gisèle Freud, Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf, 1939, color print, 30.1 x 20.1 cm (National Portrait Gallery, London).
22. Elaine Reichek, Angelica, July 1, 1921, by Vanessa Bell, 2024, hand embroidery and buttons on linen.
23. Jane Bown, Angelica Garnett, 1979, bromide print on card mount (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Panel 3
24. Vanessa Bell, Design for Omega Workshops, Maud, 1913, gouache on gridded paper, 56.9 x 71 cm (Private collection, London).
25. Vanessa Bell, Still Life of Dahlias, Chrysanthemums and Begonias, 1912, oil on board laid on panel (private collection, London). Postcard for Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520–1920, 2024, Tate Britain, London.
26. Langlands & Bell, from “At Charleston,” in Charleston Press (Lewes: The Charleston Trust), No. 6, April 2022, 30–71. (Photograph by James Bellorini, for Langlands & Bell, Near Heaven, 2022, installation in Vanessa Bell’s former attic studio.)
27. Elaine Reichek at Charleston, examining reproduction furnishing fabric designed by Vanessa Bell (photograph by Laura Engel, 2024).
28. Vanessa Bell, Still Life with Fan, c. 1932, oil canvas, 23.375 x 19 in. (Philip Mould & Company, London).
29. Duncan Grant, Mirror with Wool Embroidered Frame, c. 1940, sewn by Grant’s aunt Violet McNeil (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2024).
30. Vanessa Bell, Design for Small Screen [opposite side], c. 1920, watercolor, tempera, pastel, ink, graphite with collage on paper, 55.2 x 76.5 cm (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto).
31. VanessaBell, Design for Furnishing Material, 1946, ink and watercolor on paper, 38 x 23 cm (private collection?).
32. Elaine Reichek at Charleston, examining reproduction furnishing fabric designed by Vanessa Bell (photograph by Laura Engel, 2024).
33. Duncan Grant, Queen Mary, 1936, furnishing fabric, designed for Allan Walton, Ltd. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
34. Vanessa Bell, White, 1913, furnishing fabric swatches, in two colorways, designed for Omega Workshops (Victoria and Albert Museum, London).
35. Tall cupboard in Vanessa Bell’s bedroom at Charleston, decorated by her in 1917 (photograph by Elaine Reichek, 2022).
36. Vanessa Bell, Abstract Composition, 1914, oil on canvas, 192.5 x 62 cm (collection of Ivor Braka).
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