Chairman's Report 20 June 1967

My report covers the Society's They were privileged to visit Mr and Patron activities from June last year until Mrs Rufino Tamayo and to see today. Our financial year as you know Tamayo's most recent painting. In Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother always ends on December 31st and our Cuernavaca they were entertained and Honorary Treasurer will be dealing with met by Mathias Goeritz, the architect/ Executive Committee our financial affairs in his report. During sculptor, and also by Kitzia Hofmann Whitney Straight CBE MC DFC Chairman the period January to December 1966 Ysenbourg, the stained glass artist and Anthony Lousada Vice-Chairman our two buyers, Anthony Lousada and her sculptor husband. Work by these James Melvin Honorary Treasurer Loraine Conran, spent £5,101. 10. 0 artists was amongst commissioned The Hon John Sainsbury Honorary Secretary between them on their choice of 21 works on public buildings seen by G. L. Conran paintings and 10 pieces of sculpture. members during the trip. Derek Hill This year our two buyers are Bryan A great deal of time was naturally spent Bryan Robertson, OBE Robertson and Derek Hill who, although in the magnificent new Anthropological The Hon Michael Astor The Lord Croft due by rotation to retire at this meeting, Museum in Mexico City. This acted as a Alan Bowness are naturally invited to complete their perfect introduction to the many fine Dr Kenneth Marsh task. archeological sites the party was to see Norman Reid At the last Annual Meeting we were on their subsequent extensive tour Justin Knowles very sorry to have to say farewell to through Mexico. Half the party were David Sylvester Peter Meyer who had been our also able to visit Guatemala, which by David Thompson all accounts was a most rewarding Nancy Balfour Honorary Treasurer for so long but who, also by rotation and together with experience. Pauline Vogelpoel, MBE Organising Secretary Eardley Knollys, retired from the This year, for the first time since 1960, Committee. We were pleased to elect we will not be venturing abroad owing Sylvia Wren Assistant James Melvin from our Committee to to the currency restrictions, but are act as Honorary Treasurer. planning a weekend in Bath and a week In October last year, in response to in Scotland instead. Many members many requests from members, we have asked us to plan a trip to India and organised a second trip to Mexico. we are at present making the necessary Thirty fortunate members who enquiries for a possible trip in 1968. participated were handsomely In November, soon after arriving back entertained throughout the country, from Mexico, Miss Vogelpoel took 60 but particularly in Mexico City where members to Manchester for what gallery owners and private collectors proved to be another most successful gave receptions in their honour. weekend trip following upon the lines of the Liverpool weekend in 1965. Mr Lockett's charming gallery which Some of our members were fortunate Loraine Conran, the Director of the City houses his fine collection of 18th in being able to join the charter flight to Art Gallery, very kindly arranged to hang and 19th century British water-colours. Paris for the day which we arranged on all the pictures presented by the Society I am pleased to say that despite the fact February 8th to see the Picasso since 1924 in one gallery and I am sure that there are always several parties for Exhibition. Being able to get in to both the members found this collection not exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, our the Petit Palais and Grand Palais to see only historically interesting but also very parties seem to be as popular as ever. the exhibition free of charge and ahead impressive. Also on view were some We are grateful to the Tate Gallery for of the queues was a great privilege and early catalogues of exhibitions relating allowing us to give these evening enhanced what was generally agreed to to some of the works, and press- viewings of important exhibitions for be a most enjoyable and successful day. cuttings irately criticising the our members. We had successful We have had many requests to repeat contemporary nature of the works! On evening parties for the David Smith such day trips and we do hope that we the Saturday members were entertained Exhibition on September 15th; the will not disappoint members in our to tea at Granada Television Head­ Rouault Exhibition on October 8th and programme next year. quarters and shown their extensive for the Lowry Exhibition on December Our visits to private collections remain picture collection, and in the evening 7th. In September we also arranged an one of our most popular and unique there was a most enjoyable party at the evening viewing of the Women's "treats". This year, on April 29th, we Whitworth Art Gallery at Manchester International Exhibition at the were privileged to visit Lord Croft's University, where members were able to Whitechapel Gallery. This year we have collection at Hereford Square and Mr see the impressive alterations to the held parties for the Young Con­ and Mrs James Melvin's at Pitt Street, galleries; the Northern Young temporaries' Exhibition on February 1st Kensington. On behalf of the many Contemporaries' Exhibition and several and a preview party for the Marzotto members who took advantage of this C.A.S. presented works. On Sunday Prize Exhibition on April 20th. On May charming hospitality I should like to take morning Miss Margaret Pilkington, who 4th members were invited to a special this opportunity of thanking our hosts was for many years the Curator of the evening preview of the Kokoschka on this occasion and also those who Whitworth Art Gallery, very kindly Exhibition at the British Museum, and to were so very kind to us in Manchester allowed members to see her collection meet Mr Kokoschka himself. This was a last year. of paintings over a glass of sherry at her somewhat historic occasion as it was house on Alderley Edge, and in the the first time members have had the Apart from organising all these events afternoon Mr and Mrs G. D. Lockett opportunity to visit the British Museum our office is kept very busy lending our kindly had a tea party in their music in the evening. Tomorrow night we rapidly growing collection of recent room at Clonterbrook House at expect nearly 500 people to our acquisitions, pending their allocation Swettenham. After tea members spent evening party to see the important to our 100 member galleries early a most enjoyable hour or so looking at Picasso Exhibition at the Tate Gallery. next year. We have loaned pictures to several departments of London Hon Treasurer's Report 20 June 1967

University, the Architectural Association, Our income from subscriptions for 1966 of our bank balances in local government and various hospitals. We have also of some £6,850 was almost exactly the stock and we have now therefore an been able to organise a large exhibition same as for 1965; we did in fact gain investment reserve of some £6,000 and of recent acquisitions for the Portsmouth some 200 new members, but the at the end of last year just under £4,000 Art Gallery, and similar ones are planned subscription income has not increased cash at the bank. for Bournemouth Art Society and the due to members resigning or their 1966 was the first year for some Huddersfield Art Gallery later in the year. subscriptions lapsing. Our income was considerable time in which we have not Your Committee have decided in the also increased by £1,900, received from had an exhibition of our own and did interests of economy to simplify the bequests and donations, which should not make any special grants. This annual report, but we hope that you will be compared with the sum of £7,200 however, probably makes it easier to see still find it attractive. Every third year, received during the previous year and all the more clearly our financial position. however, we will have a glossy edition which is, of course, not necessarily a If the income this year from in which will be shown the works which recurring item. We also received subscriptions remains as it has for the will subsequently be distributed, and approximately £1,000 from the sale of past two years at some £7,000, our total include a list of individual members. tickets, hire of pictures and income likely income will be approximately I know that all members will join with from our investments; a figure which is £8,000; this is, of course, on the me in offering our Vice-Chairman, Mr directly comparable again with the assumption that we receive little or Anthony Lousada, our very warmest previous year. nothing from bequests or donations congratulations on his appointment to The administrative expenses during the which are naturally unpredictable. the Chairmanship of the Tate Trustees. Our total expenditure if the allocation I know also that you would like me to year were just under £3,000, again almost exactly the same as the previous for buying is again £5,000, and congratulate our most charming and administrative expenses can be kept to efficient secretary, Miss Pauline year; increases in salary having been off­ set by the lower cost of printing the £3,000, will be £8,000 and should be Vogelpoel, MBE, for the splendid work almost exactly covered by our income. that she and her assistant, Mrs Wren, Annual Report. The two buyers were allocated £2,500 each and after It would be nice, however, to think that have done for us during the year. our income would increase every year as Finally, may I ask each and every one of adjustment for the previous year the purchases show in our accounts as just administrative overheads tend to rise. you to help the Society expand its work Pictures are certainly becoming more by bringing in more and more members. over £5,100; the surplus for the year was £1,700. and more expensive and it would be reassuring to have something available The balance sheet, with one exception, to promote exhibitions of our own and is little different from last year. The other special ventures. exception is that we took advantage of the higher interest rates ruling during the earlier part of the year to invest some The Contemporary Art Society Revenue Account for the year ended 31 December 1966

£ s. d. £ s. d. 1965 £ s. d. £ s. d. 1965 Amount allocated to Buyers for 6,850 Subscriptions (including estimated refund of Income Tax on Deeds 6,032 1966 5,101.10.0 10.10.0 of Covenant) 6,857.6.10 (Less)46 Add Prior year's adjustments 7,225 Bequests and Donations 1,900.4. 4 5,986 Interest on Investments and 359.3. 5 2,175 Special Grants 327 Deposit Accounts (Gross) 3,316 Special purchases and grant in Sale of Tickets for Visits aid- "British Sculpture in the 14,641 and Parties 16,700. 9. 16,214. 7. Sixties" Exhibition 13,978 Less Expenses 5,112. 0.0 663 486. 2. 11,477 134.4. Expenses— 10 Hire of Pictures 1,591 Salaries, Allowances, National 301 "British Sculpture in the Insurance Contributions and Sixties" Exhibition Selective Employment Tax 1,846. 6. 7 Surplus on redemption of 186 Printing, Stationery, Investment Postage and Telephone 242. 2.10 948 Estimated Cost of Annual Reports 350. 0. 0 — Office Furniture written off 159. 7. 4 375 Miscellaneous 317. 3. 3 2,915. 0.0 805 Surplus for year 1,710. 1.3

£9,737.1. 3 £15,382 £9,737. 1.3 £15,382 The Contemporary Art Society Balance Sheet, 31 December 1966

1965 £ s. d. £ s. d. 1965 £ s. d. £ s. d. Accumulated Fund Current Assets 6,478 Balance 1 January, 1966 7,282.14.8 Investments at Cost Add Surplus per Revenue £1,200 Swansea 3£% 805 Account 1,710. 1.3 986 Redeemable Stock 1960/70 985.14.0 £1,600 New Zealand 6% 7,283 8,992.15.11 1,543 Stock 1972 1,543. 8.0 2,732 Creditors and Accrued Expenses 1,953. 4. 0 £2,000 Plymouth Corporation 6£% — Stock 1975/76 1,970. 8.0 Note: No value has been included £1,500 Greater London Council in the Balance Sheet for Pictures, — 6f% Stock 1976 1,462.16.0 etc., purchased by or presented to the Society and temporarily retained 2,529 (Market Value £5,957 - 1965 £2,574) 5,962. 6. 0 pending presentations to Art Galleries, etc. Cash at Bank 4,734 On Current Account 2,303.18.7 2,000 On Deposit Account 2,037. 4.0 4,341. 2. 7 36 Cash in Hand 49. 9. 5 Members of Committee Debtors and Prepaid Expenses Outstanding Subscriptions and Whitney Straight estimated Income Tax recoverable James Melvin 529 on Subscriptions 458. 0.4 187 Sundry 135. 1.7 593. 1.11

£10,015 £10,945.19.11 £10,015 £10,945.19.11

Report of the Auditors to the Members of the Contemporary Art Society We have examined the foregoing Balance Sheet and Revenue Account and have obtained all the information and explanations which we considered necessary. In our opinion proper books of account have been kept by the Society and the Balance Sheet and Revenue Account, which are in agreement therewith, comply with the Companies Act, 1948, and respectively give a true and fair view of the state of the Society's affairs at 31 December, 1966, and of the surplus for the year ended on that date. Ge>ard van de Linde & Son Chartered Accountants Chesterfield House, 26/28 Fenchurch Street London EC3 12 May 1967 List of Purchases for the year 1966

Buyer/Loraine Conran Gifts to the Society Norman Adams The Sea, No 1 Henri Hayden "L'Echequier" Presented by Mr and Mrs Victor Frank Auerbach Head of Helen Gillespie 3, 1965 Waddington in memory of Elizabeth Heygate Frank Auerbach Preparatory drawing for Camden Town painting (chalk) Works presented by the Society Anthony Benjamin Painting 1, 1966 Denis Bowen Composition in brown and silver (oil on paper) The Tate Gallery: Henri Hayden "L'Echequier" By Mr and Mrs Victor Geoffrey Clarke Two Troughs and Flat Bar, 1964 (cast aluminium) Waddington through the Contemporary Art Society Robyn Denny Into Light, 1964/65 in memory of Elizabeth Heygate Peter Joseph Composition 1965 Manchester City Cecil Collins "Landscape of the Unknown God" Henry Mundy Dark Magnet Art Gallery in memory of Eric Newton Ulrico Schettini The Phoenix (ink) University of Hull: H. Gaudier Brzeska "Woman" (relief) William Tucker "Mem" 2 (sculpture) Art Collection Michael Tyzack Candyman, 1965

Buyer/Anthony Lousada Loans made by the Society Malcolm Carder Variations and inversion on a cube (construction) Exhibitions of the Society's recent acquisitions were loaned to: Jane Coyle Catch Caught (Bronze) Keith Grant Lava Field, 1965/66 British Petroleum Headquarters, Hamburg Gwyther Irwin "Lord you made the night too long," 1964 The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (cardboard construction) Sheffield University Arts Festival Bryan Pearce Cornish Landscape Small groups of works were loaned to: Charles Perry Conquilla 1965 (bronze) William Pye Tristram, 1966 (chromium plated bronze/steel) Farnham Art School Bridget Riley Set of six Screen Prints on Plexiglass, 1965 Birmingham College of Art and Design Benedict Rubbra Composition No 2 Senate House, London University Harry Seager "Opus No 28", 1965 (glass sculpture) Queen Mary College, London University Gunther Uecker Sinking Square, 1966 (nails on canvas) Westfield College, London University Gunther Uecker Ball of Nails, 1966 (nails on wood globe) Department of Extra Mural Studies, London University Architectural Association Royal Free Hospital Medical School Purchases in 1966 for 1965 Buyer/Peter Meyer Robyn Denny Untitled gouache, 1964 Justin Knowles Bakete (rhomboid of sides, fibreglass) Victor Pasmore Point of Contact, No 7, 1965 (lithograph) List of subscribing galleries, trusts and corporate subscriptions, 1966

£ £ 5 5 0 Abbot Hall Art Gallery: The Friends of 15 15 0 Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum 15 15 0 Aberdeen : Art Gallery and Industrial Museum 15 15 0 Christchurch, New Zealand: Robert McDougall Art Gallery 26 5 0 Adelaide: National Gallery of South Australia 15 15 0 Coventry: Herbert Art Gallery 5 0 0 Architectural Association 15 15 0 Auckland Art Gallery 15 15 0 Darlington Museum and Art Gallery 10 10 0 Derby Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 : Fine Art Public Gallery Association 15 15 0 Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery 2 2 0 Basildon Civic Arts Society 15 15 0 Dudley Art Gallery 20 0 0 Bath : Art Gallery 15 15 0 Dumfries: Gracefield Art Centre 15 15 0 Batley: Bagshaw Art Gallery 10 10 0 Dundee Museum and Fine Art Galleries 15 15 0 Belfast: Ulster Museum 15 15 0 Dunedin Art Gallery 5 5 0 Bilston: Public Art Gallery and Museum 26 5 0 Birkenhead: Williamson Art Gallery 21 0 0 Eastbourne: Towner Art Gallery 5 5 0 Birmingham: Barber Institute of Fine Art 15 15 0 Eccles: Monks Hall Museum 15 15 0 Birmingham City Art Gallery 5 5 0 Electricity Council 5 5 0 Birmingham University Works of Art Committee 15 15 0 Exeter City Art Gallery 10 10 0 Birmingham College of Art and Design 21 0 0 Glasgow: Art Galleries and Museum 5 5 0 Blackburn Art Gallery 5 5 0 Blackpool: Grundy Art Gallery 5 5 0 Glasgow: University Art Collections Fund 15 15 0 Bolton Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 Gloucester City Art Gallery 15 15 0 Bootle Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 Hamilton, Ontario: The Art Gallery 15 15 0 Bournemouth : Russell Cotes Art Gallery 15 15 0 Harrogate Corporation Art Gallery 15 15 0 Bradford Corporation Art Gallery 15 15 0 Hereford Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Bradford: Friends of the Art Gallery 21 0 0 Huddersfield Public Art Gallery 5 5 0 Brighouse Art Gallery 26 5 0 Hull: Ferens Art Gallery 15 15 0 Brighton Art Gallery 5 5 0 Hull: Friends of the Ferens Art Gallery 15 15 0 Brisbane: National Gallery of Queensland 25 0 0 Hull University Art Collections Fund 15 15 0 Bristol Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Bristol: Association of Friends of the Museum 5 5 0 Ipswich Art Gallery 5 5 0 British Council 10 0 0 British Museum: Department of Prints and Drawings 15 15 0 Kettering Art Gallery 15 15 0 Bury Corporation Art Gallery 15 15 0 Kimberley, South Africa: Humphreys Art Gallery 100 0 0 Buxton: The Noel Buxton Trust 5 5 0 King's Lynn: Friends of the Museum 31 10 0 Camberwell: South London Art Gallery 15 15 0 Lake District Art Gallery Trust 21 0 0 Cape Town: South African National Gallery 5 5 0 Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery 26 5 0 Cardiff: National Museum of Wales 15 15 0 Leeds: Temple Newsam House 5 5 0 Carlisle Public Library and Art Gallery 3 3 0 Leeds Art Collections Fund £ £ 15 15 0 Leicester Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 Pietermaritzburg Art Gallery 15 15 0 Lincoln : Usher Art Gallery 15 15 0 Plymouth Art Gallery 10 0 0 Lindsay Trust 21 0 0 Portsmouth: Cumberland House Museum 15 15 0 Liverpool: The Walker Art Gallery 15 15 0 Preston: Harris Museum and Art Gallery 15 0 0 London Graduate School of Business Studies 31 10 0 London, Ontario: Public Library and Museum 15 15 0 Reading Museum and Art Gallery 10 10 0 London University: Department of Extra Mural Studies 5 5 0 Rochdale Museum and Art Gallery 4 4 0 London University: Queen Mary College 15 15 0 Rotherham Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 London University: Senate House 5 5 0 Royal Free Hospital Medical School 10 10 0 Luton Art Gallery and Museum 15 15 0 Rugby Art Gallery and Museum 15 15 0 Salford Royal Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Maidstone Museum Auxiliary Fund 10 0 0 Scarborough Art Gallery 26 5 0 Manchester Corporation Art Gallery 15 15 0 Scunthorpe Museum and Art Gallery 21 0 0 Manchester University: Whitworth Art Gallery 15 15 0 Sheffield: Graves Art Gallery 10 10 0 Sheffield University Students Union 15 15 0 Manchester University: Rutherston Loan Collection 6 6 0 Mansfield Museum and Art Gallery 26 5 0 Southampton Art Gallery 25 0 0 : National Gallery of Australia 15 15 0 Southend: Beecroft Art Gallery 15 15 0 Merthyr Tydfil Art Gallery and Museum 15 15 0 Stalybridge: Astley Cheetham Art Gallery 15 15 0 Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery 21 0 0 Middlesbrough: Dorman Memorial Museum 31 10 0 Sunderland Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Middlesex Hospital Medical School 21 0 0 Swansea: Glyn Vivian Art Gallery 15 15 0 Nelson, New Zealand: Bishop Suter Art Gallery 15 15 0 Swindon Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 Newark Museum and Art Gallery 26 5 0 Sydney: National Gallery of 15 15 0 Newcastle on Tyne: Durham University, Hatton Gallery 33 0 0 Toronto Art Gallery 21 0 0 Newcastle on Tyne: The Laing Art Gallery 15 15 0 Torquay Art Gallery 15 15 0 Newport Museum and Art Gallery 15 15 0 Northampton Art Gallery and Public Library 31 10 0 Victoria and Albert Museum 15 15 0 Norwich City Museum and Art Gallery 10 10 0 Victor Batte Laye Trust: The Minories, Colchester 25 0 0 Nottingham Museum and Art Gallery 5 5 0 Wakefield City Art Gallery 50 0 0 Ocean Steam Ship Co Ltd (P. H. Holt Trust) 5 5 0 Wakefield Permanent Art Fund 15 15 0 Oldham Municipal Art Gallery 15 15 0 Warrington Museum and Art Gallery 31 10 0 Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada 15 15 0 Wellington, New Zealand: National Art Gallery 10 10 0 Oxford: Ashmolean Museum 10 10 0 Westfield College Senior Common Room 5 5 0 Oxford University: Worcester College Middle Common 15 15 0 Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Museum Room 10 10 0 Worksop Art Gallery and Museum 15 15 0 Perth: National Gallery of Western Australia 15 15 0 York Art Gallery