VADS Image Collection

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The Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection has added a further 400 images from its historic collections to vads.ac.uk. This outstanding collection includes works by many well-known early staff and students, such as William Lethaby, John Farleigh, Noel Rooke, Cecil Collins, William Newland, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston, Jeannetta Cochrane, Joyce Clissold, and many others.The digitised collection consists of a wide range of material including: fine art, ceramics, lettering and calligraphy, prints, theatrical costume design, textiles, books printed and bound in the Central School, German film posters, Japanese prints, and a collection of illustrated books used as teaching examples.The museum has its roots in the Teaching Examples Collection which was established by the first principal of the Central School, William Lethaby. The museum now aims to collect work by former staff and students of Central Saint Martins and the two founding colleges: The Central School of Arts and Crafts, later Design, and St Martin's School of Art.Over 1700 works from the museum are now available to view online at VADS. For more information, see also vads.ac.uk/collections/CSMNotes to EditorsVADS is the online resource for visual arts. It currently provides access to over 100,000 images from art and design collections held in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and archives throughout the UK. The image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher and Further Education and personal research.VADS is based within the University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham.