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Contemporar Y CONTEMPORAR Y . ART SOCIETY THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY For the Acquisition of Works of Modern Art for Loan or Gift to Public Galleries. President: LORDHOWARD DE WAALDEN Treasurer: lR C. KENDALL-BUTLER, K .B.E. Bourton House, Shrivenham Honorary Secretary: LORDIVOR SPENCER-CHURCHJILL 9 Chelsea Embankment S.W.3 Committee : LORD HENRY BE TINCK, M.P. (Chairman) Charles Aitken St. John H utchinson Lord Balniel Edward Marsh, C.B., C.M.G., Muirhead Bone c.v.o. Ernest Marsh Samuel Courtaulcl Roderick Meiklejohn, C.B. A. M. Daniel The Hon. Jasper Ridley Campbell Dodgson, C.B.E. Sir Michael Sadler, C.B., K.C.S.l. Anthony Eden The Earl of Sandwich Roger Fry Montague Shearman The Honorary Secretary Assiflant Secretary: Mr. H. S. EoE REPORT N the con victionthat much of the finer artistic talent of our time was imperfectly or not at all represented in tbe National and Municipal Galleries, the Contemporary Art Society was initiated in the year 1909. Its aim is tO encourage, by the purchase and exhibition of chosen examples of their work, painters who in other countries would enjoy a certain official patronage. During the last century little or no attempt was made to secure for the nation specimens of such vital contemporary painting as has since proved to stand the test of time, and to take a few instances, it is almost entirely due to private foresight and munificence that Alfred Stevens, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Impressionists are represented at all in the public collections This Society, on whose committee a wide range of opinions is represented, hopes to obviate a similar reproach against the present age, and by discriminating purchase to fill up what would seem to posterity an inexcusable gap in our museums and galleries, overloaded as they are with ephemeral work of the time preceding our own. Side by side with the enrichment of the collections, the Society has the further aim, in the interests of the artists themselves, of supplying, so far as its means allow, the falling off in private buying which has resulted from the present financial stringency. These are difficult times for young painters and sculptors who have to live on the proceeds of their work, and the need for some form of public patronage was never greater than now. The method of purchase is as follows :- A single member of the Committee is appointed as buyer for twelve months, and has the spending of tl1e Society,s income, less 2 5 per cent., which is put into a Reserve Fund. The purchases are either retained by the Society and lent from time to time for exhibi- tions, or presented outright to some public gallery. After a certain 3 TORSO John Skeaping number of years it is in the power of the Committee to sell pictures which for any reason they no longer wish to keep, and buy others with the proceeds. The present Report contains a list of the acquisitions of the ociety during 1928, its gifts to provincial galleries, a statement of subscriptions and donations for 1929, and Financial tatements for the years 1929 and 1929. eparate Reports from the Print Fund and the Arts and Crafts Fund are included with this Report. Pictures have been lent in 1929 to Bradford, Bury, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Hull, Leeds, Lincoln, Manchester, Iewcastle, Oldham, Rochdale, Stoke-on-Trent, Brussels and Durban. Enthusiastic letters of thanks have been received. The Committee feels that it is not widely enough known that provincial Galleries may borrow pictures from the C.A.S., and it asks members to en- courage galleries, in which they are interested, to apply for loans. Several of the provincial Galleries have raised their subscription to ten guineas, and it is hoped tbat with these added funds, the Society will be able to distribute pictures more regularly. It was suggested that each Gallery should collect "Friends of the Gallery" who would be willing to give at least a very small subscription each year, and that the total should be sent to the C.A.S. as a donation from the Gallery concerned. In exchange, the C.A... would undertake to present the Gallery with a picture of considerably greater value than the donation sent. The City of York carried out this scheme with success. The Belfast Art Gallery requested the Contemporary Art Society to administer on their behalf a fw1d left by M[r. Lloyd Patterson. The Society have purchased the following representative contem- porary paintings :- Duncan Grant "Interior," Spencer Gore "Landscape," Innes "Landscape," Augustus John " Vivian" Augustus John "Woman in Landscape Neville Levis "African Boy," McEvoy " Mary Clare"Cedric forris "Birds,"Paul Nash "St Pancras Lilies,"WilliamNicholson "Cinerarias,"Glyn Philpot 4 MODEL RESTING R. Coxon "Portrait," W. Rothernstein "Landscape,"E. eabrooke "Fruit," ickert " uspense," ickert " Landscape," Matthew mith " Daisies," tanley pencer " Betrayal," Wilson Steer " Nude," W ilson teer "Landscape," Edward Wadsworth " hell Painting." The ociety has started a separate fund for the purchase of work by contemporary artists offoreign nationality. It is felt that the public galleries in England are very deficient in representative works of foreign schools, and they appeal for additional subscriptions, which can be earmarked for this purpose. PURCHASES BY THE FOREIGN FUND Since its formation the Foreign Fund has obtained by purchase or gift such important works as " Liseuse en plcin Air" by H. Matisse "La Mariee" by G. Rouaul t, " Femme assise clans un Interieur" by Vuillard, " Vieux Port, Marseille," by J T. Clement, "Cows" by D. de Segonzac, "HIcad of a W oman" byA. Moreau, three statues and drawings by H. Gaudier-Brzeska, and will soon obtain an important work by faillol. 6 WINDOW SOUTH OF FRANCE Duncan Grant PRIVILEGES TO MEMBERS OF THE CO TEMPORARY ART SOCIETY It has been arranged that all members of the Contemporary Art Society may attend, free of charge, Exhibitions at the following Galleries on presentation of their Card of Membership:: The French Gallery The Goupil Gallery The Guillaume Gallcry The Independent Gallery The Lefevre Galleries The Leicester Galleries The London Group Exhibitions The Seven and Five Exhibitions The National Gallery, Trafalgar Sq. The National Gallery, fillbank The Wallace Collection It is hoped that in the course of the next year further privileges may be obtained. Cards of Membership have been sent to all members. The minimum Annual Subscription is placed at the figure of one guinea in order that as large a number of members may be enlisted as possible. Subscriptions or Donations should be sent to the Hon. Secretary, Lord Ivor Spencer-Churchill, 9 Chelsea Embankment) London, S.W.3. 8 APPENDIX A P RCHA ES D Rl G 1929 Title Medium Artist Model Resting Oil R. Coxon Yorkshire Village Oil R. Coxon Still Life, By a Window Oil R. O.Dunlop Window. South of France Oil Duncan Gram Harding's Doon, Gower Oil Cedric Morris Still Life Oil F. Porter Seated ude Sculpture John Skeaping Chrysanthemums Oil Muriel Wilson Aishn of the Kasha Oil Edward Wolfe GIFTS TO THE SOCIETY Title Medium Artist Donor Lanclscape Oil R. Coxon Mr. Edward Marsh Landscape Oil E. Seabrooke do. Flower Oil P. ash do. Interior Oil I. Hi tchens do. Lamdscape Oil F. Graham do. Interior Water-colour E. du Plessis do. Figure of a Woman Water-colour R. Mullen do. Study of a Bo)' Water-colour Davicl Jones do. Fantasia Pencil R. Eurich do. The Windmill Oil A. Daintrey do. Epping Oil E. Hawthorn do. Black Barn Oil D. Davidson do. The Great Viol Pencil R. Eurich do. Still Life Water-colour A. E .. tandish Mr. A. E. Standish GIFTS FROM THE SOCIETY TO THE NATIONAL GALLERY, MILLBANK 1929 Title Medium Artist Landscape, South of France Oil Duncan Grant Femme assise Oil Matisse Femme assise dans un interieur Oil Vuillnrd Head of a Girl Bronze Dobson GIFTS FROM THE SOCIETY TOPROVI NCIAL GALLERIES AND OTHERS 1929 Title Medium Artist Town Landscape Oil Ginner Durban Seated Nude Bronze Epstein Bradford The Sand Boat Oil Walton Manchester (Rutherston Loan Collection) The Flanks of Cader Oil Walter Bayes 1.eicester 9 LIST OF S UBSCRIBERS TO THE CONTEMPORARYY ART SOCIETY 1929 Name General Fund Foreign £ s. d. £ s. d. Aberdeen 10 10 0 Acworth, :Mr. & Mrs. J\ . W. 2 2 0 I 0 Agnew, Colin 0 0 Agnew, G. 2 2 0 Aitken, C. l I 0 I l 0 Alcock, Dr. Broughton l 0 0 Allen, A. A. I l 0 Amory, Mrs. L. H. I I 0 Anderson, Miss M. M. I I 0 Andrews, F. E. 2 2 0 Armitage, Mrs. G. W. l I 0 I l 0 Armstrong, Col. W.E. A. I I 0 Arnot, G. I l 0 Atkinson, Mrs. C. F. I I 0 Asquith, Hon. Mrs. Arthur 2 2 0 Bailey, Mrs. A. I 10 0 Balfour, Mrs. A. G. I I 0 Ball, Mrs. E. A. 2 2 0 Balniel, Lord I l 0 Barton, J. E. l l 0 (1930. Bates, Edward I I 0 Beale, Sir J. F. l l 0 Beauchamp, Earl I l 0 Behrend, Mrs. J L. l 0 l l 0 Beit, Alfred 0 0 Beit, Sir O. 10 10 0 Bennett, Arnold 0 Bentinck, F. Cavendish 2 2 0 Bentinck, Lord Henry 0 0 Bentinck, Lady Henry 2 2 0 Berners, Lord 10 0 0 Birmingham 2 2 0 Blackwell, G. 0 10 Name General Fund Foreign [. s. d. £ r. d Blaker, H. I I 0 Blanesburgh, Lord 2 2 0 Bone, Mrs. M. I 0 Bone, Muirhead 4 4 0 Bonham-Carter, ir Edgar 2 2 0 Bonham-Carter Mrs.
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