Julian Trevelyan – pages from a Scrapbook

Julian Trevelyan – pages from a Scrapbook

Julian Trevelyan – pages from a scrapbook

As much as Trevelyan’s many scrapbooks from the 1930s comprise a huge range of materials – everything from etchings to mass-produced prints – they also revel in typically Surreal juxtapositions of content as demonstrated here: on one page, an advertisement for furnishing fabrics; on the next an image of Noah’s Ark.   A signed-up Surrealist, Trevelyan was a prolific scrapbooker.  The volumes can be viewed in their entirety by appointment at the Tate Archives.  Some have also been digitised, and are available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-898-1/trevelyan-scrapbooks.