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Collection Summary

Creator: Heysen, Hans, Sir, 1877-1968
Title: Papers of Hans Heysen
Date Range: c.1880s-1973 (bulk 1899-1968)
Collection number:MS 5073
Extent: 8.95 m (55 boxes) and 1 folio item

 

Introduction

Scope and Content

The papers relate to the life and work of South Australian artist Hans Heysen. They include personal and family correspondence, financial papers, personal documents, photographs, minutes and agenda, newscuttings, printed material and ephemera. The personal and family correspondence forms the bulk of the collection.

The main correspondents include Will Ashton, Julian Ashton, James Bateman, John Brackenreg (Legend Press), Harold Cazneaux, William H. Gill, Elioth Gruner, Frank and George Holman, Dr Shirley Jones, Lionel and Norman Lindsay, Frederick and Louis McCubbin, James McGregor, Dame Nellie Melba, Lloyd Rees, Frank Rinder, Mary Isobel Barr-Smith, W. Baldwin Spencer, Sydney Ure Smith and W. Blamire Young.

Arrangement

The Library has arranged the Heysen Papers into ten series, each of which has been described in this finding aid. In addition, all the correspondence has been indexed and item-numbered, with the exception of family correspondence in Series 2.

Access

Part available for research (Boxes 1-13, 33-55); part requires permission for research (Boxes 14-32) until 2011. Not for loan.

Provenance

The papers were presented to the Library in 1975 By David Heysen, the eldest son of Hans and Sallie Heysen. A small number of letters were added to the collection in 1976 and 1986. Another small addition (Series 10) was received from the Curator at 'The Cedars', Hahndorf, in 2003.

Copying and Publishing

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Related Material

The Library's Oral History Collection holds two interviews with Hans Heysen at ORAL TRC1/27 and ORAL TRC 99.

A number of other manuscript collections contain letters written by Hans Heysen. They can be accessed through the Library's catalogue (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/).

Paintings and drawings by Hans Heysen which are held in the Pictures Collection can be located through the Library's catalogue (http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/).

Preferred Citation

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Papers of Hans Heysen, National Library of Australia, MS 5073, [series and folder number]'.

Digitised Material

Two letters from Series 2 (folder 146) have been digitised as part of the Library's Treasures Gallery.

The items that have been digitised are available online through this finding aid.

 

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