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Newsletter FOR SUPPORTERS OF THE HOLBURNE MUSEUM SPRING 2020 FLEET AIR ARM and HAYNES MOTOR MUSEUMS see page 5 A DAY AT SHERBORNE CASTLE and MINTERNE HOUSE & GARDENS see page 8 NEW EXHIBITION: GRAYSON PERRY: THE PRE-THERAPY YEARS see page 4 LUCAS CRANACH at COMPTON VERNEY see page 6 2 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US Contents and calendar of events Jonno’s letter and message from Chris Stephens 3 2020 FUTURE EVENTS Thursday 23rd January Invitation: Exhibition Circle and Patrons’ Private View 4 Friday 24th January Invitation: Friends’ Private View 4 Thursday 12th March A visit to the Fleet Air Arm & Haynes Motor museums 5 Thursday 26th March Lucas Cranach exhibition at Compton Verney 6-7 Thursday 16th April A day trip to Sherborne Castle and Minterne House 8-9 Friday 1st May A musical evening celebrating Frank Brown 10-11 Saturday 9th May Expert wine-tasting at the Holburne 12 Sunday 10th May The Holburne Plant and Produce Sale 13 Tuesday 12th May A rare chance to visit Kentchurch Court & Rudhall Manor 14 Holburne Insights: new acquisition of Bow porcelain 15 Recent event reports 16-18 Exhibition Circle & Patrons members events 19-21 Holburne news and fundraising update 22-23 Thursday 11th June Save the date: Exhibition Circle and Patrons 24 Private View - Canaletto Call-out for produce jars for Holburne Plant Sale 24 Holburne Supporters Committee 24 Credits/captions for front cover images: Friends membership 2020 Clockwise from top left: In Spring 2020 there will be small increases to our Friends membership subscriptions: £40 per year for an individual and £60 for joint membership. Sherborne Castle grounds, This is the first rise since 2016. photo courtesy of the Wingfield Digby family at Sherborne. You do not need to do anything now. When it comes to your annual membership renewal we will write with the new rate. For those who pay Chevrolet Corvette, image courtesy of by Direct Debit (the Museum's preferred method), we will write to you Mohamad Shahriman Ariff in advance of your change in payment. Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472 - 1553) Subscription money helps the Holburne bring some of the world’s greatest art Portrait of Sigmund Kingsfelt to Bath and also to deliver engaging educational programmes for everyone. about 1530, oil on wood panel © Compton Verney (CVCSC:0191.N) The ever-increasing cost of running an independent museum means a large proportion of the budget relies on charitable support in the form of donations, Grayson Perry (1960 - ) grants and gifts. We would delighted to hear from you if you would like to get Self Portrait cracked and warped more involved in helping us. 1985, Glazed Ceramic, Private Collection Photo: Todd-White Art Photography We value your continued support enormously - thank you. © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US 3 Jonno’s letter, and message from Chris Stephens Dear Holburne Supporters all, We have some very special with your membership My thanks are due to our out- events lined up exclusively gaining unlimited access to going Chairman, Antonia for Exhibition Circle members many exciting exhibitions. Johnson for her admirable work and Patrons, including an In January we will open our in leading the Friends through exciting opportunity to meet much-anticipated show of many changes over recent Grayson Perry in person and Grayson Perry’s early work: years. Many thanks also go to VIP tickets to COLLECT, the The Pre-Therapy Years. Undine Concannon as the international art fair for modern If you haven’t seen them yet, Friends’ Membership Secretary craft and design in London. do catch displays of new and Sidney Morton as Treasurer, work by Candace Bahouth who are stepping down after I hope to see some of you at and Mark Clarke before they many years of invaluable service. these events, and wish you a close in early February. very happy 2020. Thank you 2020 brings an array of exciting for supporting the Holburne. The summer brings Canaletto: events and day trips for all our Painting Venice, a famous set supporters. Do join us to help of paintings never before celebrate the generosity of shown outside their usual Jonno Davis Frank Brown, when virtuoso Chairman, Holburne Supporters home at Woburn Abbey, and players Nathaniel Mander and an extraordinary group of Sam Brown have asked two Message from Chris Stephens mediaeval Islamic metalwork. promising young musicians to Let me start by adding my Thomas Lawrence’s wonderful join them for a wonderful thanks to Jonno’s for all that portrait of Arthur Atherley, evening of fine music-making. Antonia, Undine and Sidney which our supporters have done to make the Friends helped us buy in 2016, will be If classic cars are your thing, such a lively and successful the centrepiece of a show come along on a visit to the organisation. The Holburne exploring the artist-prodigy’s Haynes Motor Museum. If you would not be what it is with- meteoric ascent in the autumn enjoy fine wines, oenophile out their energy and commit- when we’ll also be showing Allison Cocklin will present a ment over many years. And the work of two fantastic fun and interesting wine thank you to Jonno and contemporary artists, Tracey tasting evening. Mark Hake has committee members old and Emin and sculptor Nicholas organised special day trips to new for taking up the mantle. Pope. There is something beautiful houses with unique for pretty much everybody. collections, and we are striking 2020 promises to be an So I am confident it will be out a little further afield with amazing year for the Holburne a happy new year! a day trip to Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park to see the exhibition Lucas Cranach: Dr Chris Stephens Artist and Innovator. Director of the Holburne Right: Jonno Davis; a modern take on Left: Chris Stephens the silhouette, pictured at Olafur photograph © Clare Green Eliasson’s Tate Modern exhibition. 4 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS You are invited to a private view of the new exhibition: Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years Exhibition Circle and Patrons’ Private View Thursday 23rd January 2020 5:30-8:30pm Friends’ Private View Friday 24th January 2020 6-7:30pm Refreshments in the Ballroom Exhibition Circle and Patrons are also invited to attend this private view if the date is more convenient. Grayson Perry (1960 - ) Cocktail Party 1989, glazed ceramic, H41 x 22 cm (GP239) © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS 5 Pioneering naval aviation and the UK’s largest collection of international motor vehicles Left: a 1970 Chevrolet El Camino SS 396 Pick-up with V8 engine Image © Haynes Motor Museum Below: Concorde G-BSST, prototype 002, on display in Hall 4. Assembled at the BAC plant at Filton, maiden flight in April 1969. Photo © Fleet Air Arm Museum Thursday 12th March 2020 The exhibits range from the an entire hall of sports and A full day trip to visit the pioneering development of grand-touring cars all in red! Fleet Air Arm Museum and naval aviation since 1909, to the Haynes International aircraft used in both World Tickets are £70 to include Motor Museum near Yeovil. Wars, the Falklands conflict private coach transport, arrival and the first British-built coffee, entry tickets, lunch and We shall visit the Fleet Air Concorde, prototype 002. curator talks at both venues. Arm Museum in the morning, Please add £6 if you’d like to and have an introductory We will head over to the park at St Mary’s, Bathwick. talk about the history of the Haynes Motor Museum for collections followed by free lunch and the rest of the This visit is being organised time to explore the exhibition afternoon to discover the UK’s by Jonno Davis, please galleries and Halls. biggest collection of over 400 complete and return booking cars from around the world. form 1. Do allow us time to The museum preserves the respond to your booking history of the Royal Navy’s Highlights include cars and as we are volunteers and are flying arm, including over 90 bikes from the late 1800’s, not based in the Museum. aircraft and is the largest classic cars from the 1960’s, Thank you for your patience. museum of its kind in Europe. great British marques, and 6 WWW.HOLBURNE.ORG/SUPPORT-US FUTURE EVENTS FOR ALL MUSEUM SUPPORTERS Lucas Cranach at Compton Verney Thursday 26th March 2020 Broke, undertaken by but an ambitious £45m A full day trip to Compton Oxford master mason John rebuilding and expansion Verney Art Gallery and Park Townesend who had project saw Compton Verney in Warwickshire where we worked at Blenheim Palace re-open in 2004 as a gallery will have private tours of both and a number of Oxford to house the Moore family’s the main collection as well colleges. Further re- eclectic art collections. These as the special Lucas Cranach modelling took place by focus on six areas: British exhibition. There will also Robert Adam between Folk and “naive” art - be free time for independent 1762-68 while Capability Compton Verney has the exploration of the art gallery Brown transformed much largest such collection in the and the Capability Brown- of the landscaping a country, a diverse mix of designed grounds. decade later as well as furniture, paintings, shop designing the ice house, signs, farming equipment Compton Verney estate greenhouse and chapel. and children’s toys; British (shown below) can trace its Tudor portraits; the Chinese origins to the early 16th The Verney family remained art galleries, (including one century although there had owners of the estate until of the finest collections of been a manor house here shortly after WW1 at which bronze ritual vessels from the as far back as the mid-12th point it changed hands twice Shang to the Han dynasties); century.
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