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A blog about the work and collections of the National Library of Wales.
Due to the more personal nature of blogs it is the Library's policy to publish postings in the original language only. An equal number of blog posts are published in both Welsh and English, but they are not the same postings. For a translation of the blog readers may wish to try facilities such as Google Translate.
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Yearly Archives: 2009
Christmas 1940
With Christmas 2009 upon us, I would like to share with you, this letter which Kyffin sent home at Christmas 1940. He wrote this at …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
Kyffin’s Photographs
Photographs from estates of deceased persons engender an initial feeling of melancholy. Hastily assembled in shoe boxes and biscuit tins is a kaleidoscope of images …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
Digitising the Collection
I am going to write the blog from the digitisation side of the project. The digitisation started in April, and everything is going well. I …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
Kyffin Williams archive
What an amazing archive! Like many people I was familiar with Kyffin’s work as an artist but knew little about the man himself. His character …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
Cataloguing the art works
Since July 2008 I have been cataloguing the art works in the Sir Kyffin Williams bequest. I must confess that personally I am a great …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
The Team
This is the select group with responsibility for describing the materials collected from Pwllfanogl. It’s their privilege to present the collection to Wales and the …
Posted in Kyffin Blog
Pwllfanogl
It was a crystal day in autumn when a team of four of us took on the pleasurable duty of collecting the paintings from Kyffin’s …
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About the blog
Following the artist Kyffin Williams’s death in 2006 the National Library of Wales acquired a large part of his estate, encompassing the artist’s own works …
Posted in Kyffin Blog