I -,'C, .:,"=, 8 TEMPLENEWSAM HOUSE,:';,':', «I ""r,'. j':h " " ' " '- ' ' II'' "'1' O' y S'h t'l "I'FlgT THE LIBRARIES & ARTS (ART GALLERY & TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE) SUB-COMlVHTl'EE The Lord Mayor Chairman Councillor A. Adamson Deputy Chairman Mrs. Gertrude Halbot, J.P. Alderman J. Croysdale Councillor Z. P. Fernandez Advisory Members Alderman L. Hammond Councillor A. M. M. Happold Mr. Edmund Arnold Alderman C. Jenkinson, M.A., LL.B. Councillor F. E. Tetley, D.S.O. Mr. C. H. Boyle, J.P. Alderman Sir G. Martin, K.B.E.,J.P. Councillor G. A, Stevenson Professor B.Dobree, O.B.E. Councillor H. S. Vick, J.P. Councillor H. Bretherick Councillor D. Murphy, J.P. Mr. L. W. K. Fearnley Mr. H. P. Peacock Councillor W. Shutt Lady Martin Mrs. J. S. Walsh Councillor D. Kaberry Mr. E. Pybus Mrs. R. H. Blackburn Director Mr. E. I. Musgrave THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND President The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Halifax, K.G., O.M., G.C.S.I.,G.C.I.E. Vice-President Mr. Charles Brotherton, J.P. Trustees Mr. Edmund Arnold Professor Bonamy Dobree, O.B.E. Major Le G. G. W. Horton-Fawkes Committee Councillor A. Adamson Professor Bonamy Dobree, O.B.E. Mr. Edmund Arnold (Hon. Treasurer) Major Le G. G. W. Horton-Fawkes Mr. George Black Mr. E. I. Musgrave (Hon. Secretary) Aii Communications to the Hon. Secretary at Temple Newsam House, Leeds Subscriptions for the Arts Calendar should be sent to Temple Newsam House I/6 per issue (postage 1gd) 6!6per annum, post free Single copies from W. H. Smith and other book shops gprin8 Number 194'HE LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR IN THIS ISSUE EDITORIAL —FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS QUARTERLY REVIEw —soME REGENT AGQUIsITIQNs 3 —TURNER AND FARNLEY HALL Major..........Le G. G. W; Horton-Fawkes THE DUI.WICH PICTURES —NICOLAS POUSSIN I Anthony Blunt I I ARTS CALENDAR I6 A YORKSHIRE ARTIST—EDWARD WADSWORTH S. D. Cleveland I8 THE HOLLINGS COLLECTION —SALT-GLAZED WARES E. M. Armistead The article under the title Signature of Pain: Paintings by Graham Sutherland, in the last issue was by W. T. Oliver, whose name was omitted in error. FORTHCOMING EXHIBITIONS Perhaps our most important event of the tectural drawings. The drawings date from year will be the exhibition of old master the I~th century to the present day, and drawings from the Albertina collection. include the largest group of works by This important exhibition is being brought Diirer, with the Self Portrait of I484; the to this country by the Arts Council to be Hare of I5oz; Praying Hands of I5o8 and shown at three places only —London, Edin- the Portrait of Emperor Maximilian I of burgh, and Leeds. I ~ I 8. Altdorfer, Griinewald, Perugino, Drawings from this unique collection Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Michelangelo have become world-famous through the and Titian will also be represented by many reproductions which have been made, famous examples of their work, in the one but the originals have never previously been hundred and fifty drawings selected for seen in this country. Normally housed in exhibition here. the Palace of the Archduke Frederick in The exhibition will be a revelation to Vienna, the collection was founded in I79$ many people who have not had first-hand by Duke Albert of Sachsen-Teschen, and experience of the work of world-famous later extended by the Archduke Charles. masters, and we are indeed fortunate in It now forms part of the National Library being given this opportunity of showing the of Vienna. collection for three weeks. A charge of one The z)oo drawings are only part of this shilling for adults and sixpence for students vast collection which includes large and will be made to defray part of the enormous valuable accumulations of prints and archi- cost of bringing the exhibition to England. The exhibition of works by Jack Yeats, matters" in a typical Irish way. His can- to be shown at Temple Newsam in June, vases are full of that poetry and mystery promises to be the most comprehensive col- which we associate with Irish art, and yet lection of his work ever brought together. they have a simplicity and directness which Though Yeats'ork is already known to give them a general appeal. Another unique collecters and connoisseurs in this country, opportunity for visitors to Temple Newsam it is not sufficiently widely known. He is an to study the work of an outstanding living Irishman who paints " the Ireland that artist. eeI . I IF 4I, ILI P CARVED WOOD AND MARBLE CHIMNEY-PIECE, STYLE OF CHIPPENDALE; English c. I745. Now in 1Vorth-wess Room. BOUGHT FROM CORPORATION FUND WITH A GIFT FROM MESSRS. PRATT AND SONS uarterly Review SOME RECENT ACQUISITIONS Mr. F. J. Nettlefold's generous gift of six the latter part of the t8th century, he has paintings and four watercolours is the most been completely overshadowed by his giant important addition to the permanent collec- contemporaries. Our painting The Return tion in recent months. It includes a fine from Market, here reproduced, is character- and characteristic example of the work of istic of his later work when he was a regular Francis Wheatley (t747—t8ot) who was exhibitor of the R.A. There is a small but previously represented in the collection by charming pastoral scene, La Causerie, by four drawings. Wheatley was an artist Fantin Latour (t836—t9o4). The other of considerable ability and versatility but, paintings are by t9th century English like many accomplished English artists of artists —Lana'scape by F. W. Watts (t8oo— VICTORIA HOUSEL'ATH bP KATHERINE FRYER BOUGHT FROM THE CORPORATION FUND t87o); Near SeJJenoaks, Kent by Richard collection of watercolours. — Hilder (t8t3 t8)r); Piazza St. 2Vlarks, Through the generosity of Dr. Barnett Venice and A View on the Grand Canal, Stross, M P J Jacob Kramer's Clay, a highly Venice by James Holland (t8oo—t87o). accomplished painting though a gruesome Of the watercolours the most important subject, finds a permanent home in the is perhaps the well-known The Night Train artist's native city. by David Cox (t783—t8)9), but Julius Notable among recent purchases are Still Cesar Ibbetson's Gypsy Beggars is a Life with Bog Cotton of 1927 by Paul Nash notable addition to our collection because (t889—t946) and Katherine Fryer's Victorian it has recently been established that this House. The Nash is the second example in artist was born in Leeds in tp~9. Hampton oils to be acquired for our collection, and Bridge by Thomas Rowlandson (t7)6- although painted only two years after The t8E7) and Cromer by Birkett Foster (t8z~- Shore, which was bought last year, it shows t899) are both welcome additions to our an entirely different aspect of the work of GYPSY BEGGARS by JVLJDS CJSSAR IBBETSON (1759-18J7) GIVEN BY MR. F. L NETTLEFOLD THE RETURN FROM MARKET by FRANCIS WHEATLEY (I747-I8OI) GIVEN BY MR. F. J. NETTLEFOLD STILL LIFE WITH BOG COTTON by PAUr. Nasl (I889-I946) this eminent English artist. Miss Katherine c.zp~o, in mahogany with delicate cut paper Fryer, who is a native of Leeds, is a regular decoration and a woolwinder of English exhibitor in exhibitions throughout the design in stained beech and other woods country, and is rapidly gaining a national which dates from about the end of the t8th reputation. century. The chimneypiece, here reproduced, was Most of these acquisitions are now being mentioned in the last issue but the date then sho~n at Temple Newsam, where a complete misprinted is now corrected. This fine rearrangement of some of the rooms has example of mid t8th century carving has given a new interest to the collections. now been installed in the north-west room Many new loans are also being exhibited and fitted with a contemporary ornamental including the Cromwellian relics and mid steel grate. Other additions to the furniture r 7th century furniture from Farnley Hall. collection include a pair of polescreens, Uar ter'1y Review THE TURNER EXHIBITION The Turner watercolours at Farnley Hall derful collection of two hundred water- are regarded as one of the county's artistic colours and several paintings long remained treasures, a unique collection of works by as a monument to a great and historic a great artist of some of Yorkshire's love- friendship. The collection has now liest scenery, which were brought together dwindled to about fifty works, many having by a generous and discriminating York- been dispersed by successive generations of shire patron. This collection has always Fawkes's. been available to those who cared to apply It was satisfying to find in this exhibition for permission to visit Farnley Hall. But two examples which had recently been owing to present conditions, it may no restored to the collection by the present longer be possible for parties to see these owner, who is conscious of his responsibility watercolours in the house for which they to preserve and, if possible, restore the were painted. Major Horton-Fawkes kindly collection. This he made obvious in his offered to exhibit them at the Art Gallery speech at the opening ceremony, at which in order that at least one more excellent three hundred people were present. It was opportunity might be given for a large a memorable event because Major Fawkes number of people to see them before they gave one of those delightful, intimate were put into the family's greatly diminished addresses which are all too rare on these residence. occasions. As might have been anticipated, the exhi- In response to many requests, we print bition was one of the most popular to be below the train parts of the speech.