KETTLE'S YARD
Harold Stanley Ede (7 April 1895–15 March 1990) known as Jim Ede, a former assistant curator at the Tate Gallery, and his wife Helene née Schlapp (9 January 1894-1977) known at Helen Ede, married at Chelsea on 6 January 1921 and had two daughters. In 1956 the Ede's moved to Cambridge and with the help of architect Rowland De Winton Aldridge (1906–1997), converted four small cottages into one idiosyncratic house and a place to display Ede's collection of early 20th-century art. The Ede's maintained an 'open house' each afternoon, giving any visitors, particularly students, a personal tour of the collection and in 1966, gave the house and collection to the University of Cambridge, but continued living there before he and his wife moved to Edinburgh in 1973. The house is preserved as the Edes left it, making a very informal space to enjoy the permanent collection and live music. In 1970, the house was extended, adding an exhibition gallery in a contrasting modernist style by Sir Leslie Martin (1908-2000). Kettle’s Yard, named after a local family, is now the University of Cambridge’s modern and contemporary art gallery. Set in a beautiful house, it hosts a remarkable collection of modern art and regular contemporary art exhibitions and on display are works by Constantin Brâncusi (1876-1957), Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891–1915), John Christopher Wood (1901-1930), Alfred Wallis (1855-1942), Ben (1894-1982) and Winifred Nicholson (1893-1981), David Michael Jones (1895-1974), Jocelyn Barbara Hepworth (1903-1975) and Henry Spencer Moore (1898-1986). Suffolk artists who exhibited at Kettle's Yard include Amanda Louise Ansell, Jutta Bastian, Paul Cope, Annabel Dover, John Kenneth Green, Ffiona Lewis, Zoë Rubens, Telfer Stokes, Ursula Stroh-Rubens and Andrew Vass.
Website: https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/museums/kettles-yard