John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London (Bard Graduate Center) exhibition records
Scope and Contents
Records pertaining to the development, research, planning, publicity, related programming, and presentation of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue. See each series for details:
Series I: Catalogue
Materials related to the exhibition catalogue edited by Julius Bryant and Susan Weber. Includes outlines and drafts, author files, and photography reproduction files.
Series II: Objects and Checklists
Working checklists and object groupings from different stages of exhibition development. Includes preliminary checklists and object information for both the book and exhibition.
Series III: Installation and Design
Design and installation plans, models, and instructions.
Series IV: Exhibition Planning
Meeting notes, correspondence, and curator notes on exhibition themes, design, and object research.
Series V: Interpretation
Gallery text, object labels, wall panels and graphics.
Series VI: Loans and Registrar
Files related to loan objects and lenders. Includes loan letters, inquiries, and other correspondence.
Series VII: Press and Publicity
Press, publicity, and promotional materials including clippings, opening invitations, posters, press releases and brochures.
Series VIII: Programs
Materials documenting exhibition-related public programs as well as the 2018 academic symposium. Includes listings, mailings, posters, and event programs.
Series IX: V&A Installation
Materials from the exhibition’s installation at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Includes press releases, design plans, interpretive text and labels, and photographs.
Series X: Research
Consists mainly of reproductions of primary source material related to Kipling’s life, his extended family and his son, the poet Rudyard Kipling, as well as his work as a curator and artist. These reproduced selections were grouped thematically by the project team and their original order has largely been maintained.
This series also includes auxiliary research, including guides to collections, summaries of holdings, transcriptions, and annotated notes. It includes original site photographs relating to Kipling’s life and work.
For a more detailed list of research files, see Series X: Research in this finding aid.
Dates
- c. 2013-2018
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Exhibition History
John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London (September 15, 2017 – January 7, 2018) was curated by Dr. Susan Weber, Founder and Director of Bard Graduate Center (BGC), and Julius Bryant, Keeper of Word and Image at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). It ran at the V&A from January 14 – April 2, 2017.
It was the first major exhibition to examine John Lockwood Kipling (1837–1911)— designer, architectural sculptor, curator, educator, illustrator, and journalist—and his role in the nineteenth century Arts and Crafts revival in India during British rule. The project focused on Lockwood Kipling’s curatorship of the Lahore Museum, his journalism over 25 years in India, and his influence on his son, the writer and poet, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It included nearly three hundred objects from lenders across Britain as well as the United States and Pakistan.
Extent
13.344 Linear Feet (33 manuscript boxes)
88.8 Gigabytes (approximately 30,939 digital files)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Records of the 2017-2018 exhibition John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London, organized by Bard Graduate Center (New York) and the Victoria and Albert Museum (London). Records document the research, planning, object selection, programming, and content of the exhibition and its accompanying catalogue. The Research series in particular contains an extensive gathering of notes and reproductions on Kipling-related material primarily from special collections and archives in Great Britain, Pakistan, and the United States.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged into ten series:
Series I: Catalogue
Series II: Objects and Checklists
Series III: Installation and Design
Series IV: Exhibition Planning
Series V: Interpretation
Series VI: Loans and Registrar
Series VII: Press and Publicity
Series VIII: Programs
Series IX: V&A Installation
Series X: Research
Provenance
Consolidated from Bard Graduate Center’s Exhibitions department in 2023.
- Title
- John Lockwood Kipling: Arts & Crafts in the Punjab and London (Bard Graduate Center) exhibition records
- Author
- Mike Satalof
- Date
- Finding aid created 2023
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY Repository