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- 1954-2005. (Creation)
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2 folders ; 6 cm.
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John Ormond (1923-1990) was born in Dunvant and educated at Swansea Grammar School and the University College of Swansea. He was employed as a staff writer for the Picture Post in London, and sub-editor of the South Wales Evening Post in Swansea, before embarking on a career with the BBC in Wales, initially as a news assistant and later as a renowned producer and director of documentary films. Although his poems were published in the volume Indications (1943), he stopped writing for some years until the 1960s, and destroyed most of his early verse. He was a close friend of Glyn Jones.
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Catalogues, together with some invitations to private viewings, cards and papers, relating to various one-man exhibitions of Kyffin Williams's work, 1954-2005, including those held at the Tegfryn Gallery, Menai Bridge; Oriel Môn, Llangefni; National Library of Wales; Howard Roberts Gallery, and the Albany Gallery, Cardiff; P. & D. Colnaghi, Leicester Galleries, and the Thackeray Gallery, London. A corrected typescript, [?1981], of an introduction by John Ormond to an exhibition of Kyffin Williams's work at the National Library of Wales, 1981, together with a typescript review, entitled 'Natural painter of all things Welsh', of his exhibition in the Howard Roberts Gallery, 1968, published in The Times, 16 October 1968, are included amongst the papers.
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Action: Duplicate copies of catalogues, cards and invitations to exhibitions have been transferred to University of Wales, Bangor, and Oriel Ynys Môn. Additional duplicates have not been retained..
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Catalogues formerly Kyffin Williams Papers D8-17 are incorporated within this file. Corrected typescript and clean copy of an introduction by John Ormond to an exhibition held at the National Library of Wales, 1981, formerly Kyffin Williams Papers L1. Typescript review, 'Natural painter of all things Welsh', of the exhibition in the Howard Roberts Gallery, 1968, formerly Kyffin Williams Papers H2.
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Preferred citation: A4/1.