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Leeds Arts Calendar LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR MICROFILMED Starting with the First Issue Published in 1947, the Entire Leeds Art Calendar Is Now Available on Micro- Film Leeds Arts Calendar LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR MICROFILMED Starting with the first issue published in 1947, the entire Leeds Art Calendar is now available on micro- film. Write for information or send orders direct to: University Microfilms, Inc., 300N Zeeb Road, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, U.S.A. Leeds Art Collections Fund This is an appeal to all who are interested in the Arts. The Leeds Art Collections Fund is the source of regular funds for buying works of art for the Leeds collection. We want more subscribing members to give one and a half guineas or upwards each year. Why not identify yourself with the Art Gallery and Temple Newsam; receive your Arts Calendar free, receive invitations to all functions, private views and organised visits to places ot Cover Design interest, by writing for an application form to the Detail of a Staffordshire salt-glaze stoneware mug Hon Treasurer, E. M. Arnold Butterley Street, Leeds 10 with "Scratch Blue" decoration of a cattle auction Esq., scene; inscribed "John Cope 1749 Hear goes". From the Hollings Collection, Leeds. LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR No. 67 1970 THE AMENITIES COMMITTEE The Lord Mayor Alderman J. T. V. Watson, t.t..s (Chairman) Alderman T. W. Kirkby Contents Alderman A. S. Pedley, D.p.c. Alderman S. Symmonds Councillor P. N. H. Clokie Councillor R. I. Ellis, A.R.A.M. Councillor H. Farrell Editorial 2 J. Councillor Mrs. E. Haughton Councillor Mrs. Collector's Notebook D. E. Jenkins A Leeds 4 Councillor Mrs. A. Malcolm Councillor Miss C. A. Mathers Some Trifles from Leeds 12 Councillor D. Pedder, J.p., Ms.c. Mrs. M. Tomlinson Mr. Greg's 'Leeds Ware'8 Councillor S. C. Co-opted Members W. T. Oliver, M.A. Eric Taylor, R.E., A.R.G.A. THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND President The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Halifax V'tce-President The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood Trustees STAFF C. S. Reddihough George Black, F.R.c.s. W. Oliver, M.A. Director T. M.A., F.M.A. Robert Rowe, c.s.E., Committee Mrs. S. Gilchrist Keeper,? emple JVewsam House Professor L. Gowing, c.s.E., M.A. Christopher Gilbert, M.A., F.M.A. Mrs. R. P. Kellett Dr. Derek Linstrum, pH.D., A.R.I.B.A. Keeper, Art Gallery Mrs. G. B. Ratclifl'e Miss M. Strickland-Constable, B.A. A.M.A. T. B. Simpson Alderman T. V. Watson, LL.B. Keeper, Decorative Art Studies J. B.A. Terry F. Friedman, Hon. Treasurer Martin Arnold, B.A. Curator, Print Room and Art Library Alex Robertson, M.A. W. Hon. Secretary Robert Rowe, c.s.E.,M.A., F.M.A. Assistant Keeper, Lotherton Hall Peter Walton, B.A. Hon. Membership Secretary W. B. Blackburn Assistant Keeper, ? emple Xewsam House Wells-Cole, B.A. Anthony Hon. Social Secretary Mrs. M. A. Goldie Trainee Assistant Keeper: Richard Fawcett, B.A. Secretary: Miss B. Thompson All communications to be addressed to the Administrator Hon. Secretary at Temple Newsam House, Leeds Miss D. J. English Subscriptions for the Arts Calendar should be sent to Assistant, Print Room and Art Library The Hon. Treasurer, c/o E.J. Arnold 8c Son Ltd., Mrs. J. E. Brooks Butterley Street, Leeds 10 Technical Supervisors: 8/- per annum, including postage (2 issues) Ron Turner Single copies from the Art Gallery and Temple Michael Tasker Newsam House, 3/6 each Editorial In September the Yorkshire Arts Associa- it in terms of the existing collections as tion agreed to make a grant of $ 100 well as on its own individual qualities. towards the cost ol'xpanding the C:alendar Indeed adding to a public collection is during the current financial year. All the not so very different in its terms of money has in fact been spent in improving reference to building up a private one. one issue —this one as the next is not due The committee did feel, however, that the to be published until well after April 1st Fund should concentrate mainly on ac- 1971. Support from the Yorkshire Arts quiring contemporary art. Not only is this Association is good news indeed and we field the most appropriate to its independ- hope that those who decided to disburse ence and small budget, but it is here that the money will consider themselves as its greatest contribution to the art amenities enlightened as we think they are. This of Leeds has been made through the years. generous subsidy has allowed us to in- The actual purchasing, it was decided, crease the number of pages and indeed the should remain primarily in the hands of space available to the contributors is the secretary who must, in line with tradi- further improved by leaving out the tion, obtain first the approval of the calendar of events. This feature has be- treasurer and one trustee. This does not come less and less worthwhile since other preclude, any more than it has in the past, bodies began to publish similar informa- members of'ommittee from making sug- tion more frequently and in more accessible gestions for purchases. ways. Not least the Yorkshire Arts Asso- As far as the L.A.C.F. is concerned, the ciation itself in its monthly diary. first purchase of 1970 was an abstract At a recent meeting of your committee painting called Cambridge: G. F. Bodley, by the purchasing methods and policy of the Mark Lancaster. This was made from the Fund were discussed in the light of the new artist's highly successful London exhibition Trust Deed. This followed a meeting of in October. Members will remember that the trustees whose views were on the table he was represented by two impressive so to say. The question of how definite a works in the Festival exhibition at the Art policy one should have in acquiring pic- Gallery this year. Bought very recently tures and objects for a large and compre- with city money was the attractive late hensive collection is a difficult one. Works sixteenth-century majolica jug (Fig. I ) of art, certainly those of a quality worthy probably made in Faenza. Its English of Leeds, cannot be bought like cars from silver-gilt mounts are unmarked, but of a showroom. To be sure that something about the same date putting them among important is not missed —which through the earliest examples of the goldsmiths'raft its own merits might suggest a niche for in the collection. This embellishment itself at Temple Newsam, the Art Gallery of a jug, itself a great rarity and an excel- or Lotherton —a policy would have to be lent example of its kind, represents a so broad as to lose its identity as such. In particularly happy marriage of metalwork fact any easily recognisable policy might and ceramic. There is no space to discuss be more restricting than useful. Funda- them here but other silver objects will be mental requirements for good buying are shown in next year's acquisitions exhibi- to know where to look for things and, when tion at Temple Newsam —not in the house, something is found, to be able to evaluate we hope, but in the new stable block galleries discussed in the last Calendar. The but it is obvious that more space must be Temple Newsam history room on the given to it as soon as possible. ground floor was opened in November at What better news with which to end this the same time as the first temporary exhi- short editorial than to announce that a new bition in the galleries upstairs was closed. Social Secretary has been appointed. The other important 'opening'as of the Your commit tee has persuaded Mrs. first-floor rooms at Lotherton. The August Goldie, one of the Fund's most regular target was not met but one Saturday early and long-standing supporters, to take on in September visitors found themselves the job. We wish her well, offer our sup- able to explore the upper regions. At last port and look forward with relish to her some of the costume collection is on show, proposals for a fuller social life. 1. Majolica jug zvith English silver-gilt mounts. c. 1590-1600 A Leeds Collector's Notebook 1 Pre-Wedgwood Pottery The first purchase recorded by T. E. bound notebook. Pages 1 —33 list under Hollings was a 'Large Cream Ware 667 numbered entries his purchases of Dish'hich he bought at Riley R. Son, the Leeds pottery. The other main list (pp. Leeds auctioneers, in 1910 for QL 5s. This 71—89, nos. 01—0343) records his purchases purchase can be identified as a large of Staffordshire pot tery and Engl ~sh circular dish with a beaded and pierced delftware. There are other lists headed border. The design is a familiar Leeds "Black Basalt" (pp. 69—70), "Old English Pottery design and he later acquired Delftware" (pp. 99—100) and "Old Leeds marked examples. By 1945, Mr. Hollings Figures. Marked" as well as notes of loans had assembled a large and important to Temple Newsam and various household collection of Leeds pottery, part of which accounts. Fortunately many of Mr. Hol- he gave to Temple Newsam in 1946 and ling's numbered labels which relate to the remainder of'which came in the form entries in the notebook and some other of a bequest in 1947. In giving his collec- collectors'abels have survived on the tion, Mr. Hollings was following a long pots. Other information about the collec- succession of collectors. Gifts by H. C. tion can be gleaned from the annotated Embleton in 1928, Mrs.
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