“These Drawings Are Very Private” — Duncan Grant

NSFW Artist of the Bloomsbury Set, Charleston, England

‘Standing Nude’ by Duncan Grant (c.1935), on display at Charleston House.

Duncan Grant, born in Aviemore (Scotland) in 1885, was an artist and designer, a founder of Omega Workshops with Vanessa Bell (1913).

He was a core member of ‘The Bloomsbury Group’, a circle of artists, designers, writers and other intellectuals — including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa and…