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:.eecs Art:s Ca.en~ ar *~4 Q pl I I &»»»»L s * m LEGACIES TO THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND The LAC F depends for its income entirely on members and supporters. Please consider leaving the I.AC F a legacy in your will: it is a charitable organization and all legacies to it are exempt from Capital Transfer Tax and aggregation without limit. Bequests can take the form of a lump sum or the residue or a fraction of your estate. Some members might prefer to consider leaving works of fine or decorative art but if you contemplate doing this it would be helpful if you could please seek the advice of the Secretary who can let you know if any item will fit into the permanent collection of the Leeds City Art Galleries. The following would be a suitable form of words to send to your solicitor for inclusion in your will: 'I bequeath to the Leeds Art Collections Fund of Temple Newsam House, Leeds, a legacy of ........................free of all taxes'he Hon Solicitor of the LAc F is always very happy to advise potential benefactors. THE LEEDs ART coLLEcTIQNs FUND is one of the oldest supporting bodies for the visual arts in Great Britain, a source of regular funds for buying works of art for the Leeds collections. Why not identify yourself with the Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, receive your Arts Calendar free, receive invitations to all functions, private views and organized visits to places of mterest. Membership is open to everyone on payment of a minimum annual subscnption of Lio. There is also a concessionary )oint membership For LI I and liFe membership for Ei oo per person or Ei Io )oint. Corporate membership for organizations is Lzy. If you would like to jom simply complete the Form and send it with your remittance to the Hon. Secretary, Leeds Art Collections Fund, Temple Newsam House, Leeds t s I I oAE. Telephone 6A7I xi. President Lord Martm Fitzalan Howard; Vice President Thc Rt Hon the Earl of Harewood t.i.D; Trustees E. M. Arnold, Mrs S. Gilchrist, W. T. Oliver; Commirtee W. A. B.Brown (Chairman), E. M. Arnold ( Vice-Chairman), Dr H. R. A)pin, Councillor B. P. Atha, Mrs D. H. Boyle, P. R. P. Chadwick, Mrs J. H. Epstone, Mrs S. Mason, Mrs M. Morris, Mrs B.Roberts; Joint Hon Treasurers E. M. Arnold, J. S. Fox; Hon Secretary C. G. Gilbert; Hon Membership Secretary Dr R. B. Welch; Hon Legal Adviser T. A. Last; Hon Excursions Secretary Mrs Audrey Warburton; Events Committee Chairman Dr J. R. Sherwin. LElsURE sERvlcEs coMMITTEE The Lord Mayor; Chair Councillor B. P. Atha; Deputy Chair Councillor T. Briggs; Councillor Miss A. D. Atkinson, Councillor M. J. Bedford, Councillor J. L. Carter, Councillor C. B.Cliff, Councillor P. Crotty, DBE, KsG, Councillor Mrs I. Flavell, Councillor J. G. B. Frank)and, Counallor Mrs S. M. Gill, Councillor G. P. Kirk)and, Counmllor A. Miller, Councillor G. Moakes, Councillor Mrs M. Monks, )F, Councillor E. H. Morris, MBE, Councillor Mrs C. Myers, Councillor Jill Page, Councillor S.J, Sadler. s TAFr Director of Art Galleries Christopher Gilbert MA FMA; Principal Keeper Anthony WcllsColc MA AMA; Principal Keeper (Art Gallery and Henry Moore Centre for the Study of Sculpture) Terry F. Friedman BA FHD; Keeper (Art Gallery) Alexander Robertson MA AMA; Keeper (Lotherton Hall) Sarah C. Nichols MA; Keeper (Temple Netvsam) James Lomax MA AMA; Keeper (Conservation) lan Fraser; Keeper (Education) Adam White BA MA; Senior Assistant Keeper (Education) Judith Nesbitt MA; Senior Assistant Keeper (Art Gallery) Corinne E. Miller BA AMA; Sem'or Assistant Keeper (Exhibitions) Nigel Walsh BA; Research Assistant (Henry Moore Centre for the Study ofSculpture) Daru Rooke BA; Curatorial Assistant post vacant; Pamtings Conservator Michael Sheppard; Technical Supervisor John Berry BA; Metalu ork Conservator Phoebe Clements DA(EDIN) DIFCONS (DES)vscA); Technical Assistant David Hudson; Administrator Christine Stokes; Secretary Denise Lawson; Clerk Typist Va)erie Jackson; Clerical Assistants Shee) Bharj, Jacqueline Wade; Manager, Craft Centre and Design Gallery Marcia Southon. NQTE Starting with rhe first issue published in 1947, the entire Leeds Arts Calendar is now available on microfilm. Write for mformation or send orders direct to Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan AS to6, UsA. COVER ILLUSTRATION The formal garden at Lotherton Hall, looking east. Yorkshire Post PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS West Yorkshire Archives Service, Leeds IA Yorkshire Post 9, ro, I I, I J LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR NUMBER IO4 . I989 The last editorial reported that we were cam- days. An eloquent plea is made that photographic paigning to purchase a distinguished pedestal writ- evidence be used to reinstate certain vanished ing table which Henry yth Viscount Irwin features and original planting schemes, so enhanc- commissioned for the Library at Temple Newsam ing the authentic charm of this fragile gardenscape. in about ryq5, so it is very gratifying to announce The author, Mrs Mette Eggen, Associate Professor that the target of Er 65,ooo was reached with the at the Agriculture University of Norway, carried aid of nearly E3o,ooo raised through the LACF. out her research in tq8y and we are grateful for this The table, now back in its original setting, forms a opportunity to publish her fine article. magnificent centrepiece for this richly architectural Conservation is an increasingly significant interior because the scale, design and embellish- aspect of curatorship. In Leeds we aim to concen- ment are perfectly attuned to the decor. trate on preventive conservation through environ- Another cause for rejoicing is the famous success mental control rather than repairing damage after of the Art Gallery Centenary celebrations. Our it has occurred. There exists, however, a contin- main show, zoo Years ofArt in Britain, sponsored uous need to maintain the art collection and we by Barclays Bank, pLc, attracted over too,ooo have r'ecently moved our conservation studios and visitors —an all-time record —and attendances workshops from the isolated Aberford Almshouses for the year totalled 235,000 which represents a to quarters in the stable block at Temple Newsam dramatic increase. Numbers at Temple Newsam where work is far easier to supervise. Ian Fraser, and at Lotherton are fairly static, although higher who trained at West Dean College, took up the than many other country house museums such as post of Keeper of Conservation in May with special Osterley and Ham which are not lived in. A special responsibility for furniture. effort is being made to promote Lotherton Hall Other staff changes include the arrival of Chris- during the present year and, in readiness for the tine Stokes as Administrative Assistant following expected influx, the LACF now has a striking new the early retirement of Jean English who joined us donations box in the form of a pedestal, painted to in the early t95os. One of Jean's outstanding simulate gold spangled lapis-lazuli, supporting a achievements was re-organizing the inventory and seated pottery Buddha figure. cataloguing systems which were badly in need of Almost eighteen months ago, following a spate upgrading; thousands of record cards form an of silver thefts actoss the north of England, we enduring tribute to her commitment and exact removed all the Lotherton silver to Temple scholarship before, in the 196os, she was given Newsam while new high security bullion cases promotion and extended responsibilities for were constructed. These are now finished and the operating a rapidly growing department. Besides splendid Gascoigne race cups and arrays of Vic- her professional capabilities Jean was an inexhaus- torian silver are back on show. As part of the tible reservoir of Temple Newsam folk history and display we have opened up the old butler's plate will be sadly missed but not forgotten. closet still fitted with suitably decrepit baize-lined Lastly, reference must be made to an intact shelving and cutlery drawers; this space is now a laundry room from Preshaw Hall, Hants, which kind of Aladdin's cave for the display-storage of has been donated by Hugh Dixon of Clarendon our reserve silver collection. Still lingering at House, together with a generous sum for re- Lotherton, the present Calendar is devoted to a instating it in an outbuilding at Temple Newsam. sensitive study of the lovely garden created by This makes a most welcome and interesting addi- Laura Gwendolen Gascoigne during Edwardian tion to our country house interiors. THE EDWARDIAN GARDEN AT LOTHERTON METTE EGGEN Lotherton Hall is well known and loved by book Views ofLotherton Hall of z 984. Apart from numerous visitors from the vicinity of Leeds as a articles on the garden by Nancy Boydell and Ken place for recreation and the experience of art. Since Lemmon of z9y8 in other publications,'his article z968, when Sir Alvary and Lady Gascoigne so is the first attempt to give a comprehensive picture generously presented the house and grounds to the of the house and garden at Lotherton as they were City of Leeds with an endowment fund, Leeds City in their heyday. Art Galleries and Leeds Leisure Services have been The main scope of the MA case study was to responsible for the development and upkeep of the analyse an Edwardian garden designed by its property. owner, which is a special category in the history of During the past twenty years a number of articles gardening in Great Britain, and to suggest a policy have been published in the Leeds Arts Calendar on for its conservation. This article presents only the the transformation and use of the house as a analysis, which shows that the garden at Lotherton country house museum, focusing, naturally, on its Hall is a very good example of an Edwardian various collections and the special exhibitions that one-person garden.