LEEDS ARTS CAL New Publications FURNITURE AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE AND LOTHERTON HALL, YORKSHIRE by Christopher Gilbert The definitive catalogue of 662 items from the collections of Leeds City Art Galleries, 552 pages with 682 illustrations, 14 in colour, in two volumes. Published jointly by the National Art-Collections Fund and the Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1978. E60 the two volumes, including postage. Cheques or money orders payable to the NACF Leeds Furniture Catalogue; post to Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd., The Manningham Press, Drummond Road, Bradford BD8 8DH. CREAMWARE AND OTHER ENGLISH POTTERY AT TEMPLE NEWSAM HOUSE, LEEDS by Peter Walton A sumptuous, expertly researched catalogue of 1182 items in the Leeds collection, 295 pages, 16 colour plates and 450 black and white illustrations. Published by the Leeds Art Collections Fund, 1976. Price f42 including postage. Cheques payable to 'Lund Humphries'; post to Lund Humphries, Drummond Road, Bradford BD8 8DH. THE LEEDS ART COLLECTIONS FUND President His Grace the Duke of Norfolk; Vice-President The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Harewood, LL.D.; Trustees George Black, F R C.s, W. T. Oliver, M.A., C. S. Reddihough; Committee Councillor B. P. Atha, Mrs. S. Bidgood, W. A. B. Brown, D. Mason Jones, Dr. J. R. Sherwin, Dr. M. Wainman, Dr. R, B. Welch; Hon. Treasurer Martin Arnold, B.A.; Hon. Secretary Robert Rowe; Hon. Membership Secretary W. B. Blackburn; Hon. Social Secretary Mrs. Francoise Logan. The Leeds Art Collections 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 organised visits to places of interest. The minimum subscription is L5.00 individual and L7.50 for husband and wife. Corporate membership f25. Life membership LI00. En- quiries and application forms from the Hon. Secretary at Temple Newsam House, Leeds LS15 OAE. The Arts Calendar may be obtained for a subscription of LI.00 per annum, in- cluding postage (2 issues); single copies may be purchased at the Art Gallery, Temple Newsam House and Lotherton Hall, 50p each. Note: starting with the first issue published in 1947, the entire Leeds Arts Calendar is now available on microfilm. Write for information or send orders direct to Xerox University Microfilms, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106, U.S.A. LEISURE SERVICES COMMITTEE The Lord Mayor; Chairman Councillor B. P. Atha; Deputy Chairman Councillor Mrs. E. A. Nash; Councillor Miss A. D. Atkinson, Councillor M. J, Bedford, Councillor B. L. Cook, Councillor M. J. Dodgson, Councillor J, G, B, Frankland, Councillor B. Haydn, Councillor W. Hudson, Councillor G. P. Kirkland, Councillor E. Millet, Councillor E. R. C. Smith, Councillor S. Symmonds, Councillor Mrs. C. M. Thomas. STAFF Director of Art Galleries Robert Rowe, c.s.E.,M A.,F.M.A.; principal Keeper Christopher Gilbert, M.A.,F M A.; Keeper (Art Gallery) Miranda Strickland-Constable, B.A.,A.M.A.; Keeper (Lotherton Hall) Peter Walton, B A,,A M.A; Keeper (Temple Newsam) Anthony Wells-Cole, M.A.,A.M.A.; Keeper (Decorative Art Studies) Terry F. Friedman, B.A,PH.D.; Senior Assistant Keepers Alexander Robertson, M A,A.M.A., Adrian Budge, B.A.,M.pHIL.,GERT.ED.; Curatorial Assistant Barbara Thompson; Conservation Supervisors Michael Sheppard, Ron Turner; Metalwork Conservator Phoebe Clements, DA(Edin). Dip.cons (DEsivaA); Textile Conservator Frances Jowitt, a.A.: Technical Asssitant John Berry, s.A.; A d minist rat or Jean English; Secretary Fiona Mclndoe, a.A.; Clerical Assistants Jean Gannon, Anna Czerkaluk. Cover illustration Erik de Graaf, cross-chair 1980, plywood lacquered grey. Bought Lotherton Endovrment Fund with the aid of a Government grant 1980. LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR No. 87 1980 Editorial A commission for six decorated porcelain tiles for Lotherton Hall JEAN MUIR, an exhibition for Lotherton Hall, May-August, 1980 10 Fifty years of new ceramics in Leeds 21 Two new furniture acquisitions III ! f ~tt Illa'~ ~~ Sketch for piece six of'a set of porcelain tiles made for Lotherton Hall by Kate Wickham, 1980, at The Granary, Rotherhithe. The work was paid for from the City Purchase Fund with the aid of a 50% government grant. Editorial During 1980 we have been heavily exposed and very soon after Lady Gascoigne made her through eye and ear to the business of electing permanent home at Lotherton. Her deep interest presidents and leaders. In the political world it is and lively views were crucial to the early frequently a matter of astonishment that a leader development of the house as a 'museum'nd to survives the process of appointing him. Getting the curators her presence was one of the pleasures the best man for the job of being President of the of working there, as were the visits of her sister- Leeds Art Collections Fund is also of great im- in-law Lady Sandys. Inevitably time has brought portance, if less hazardous, and your committee unwelcome events but they have not destroyed was more than delighted when the Duke of the Gascoigne atmosphere. The flat was planned Norfolk accepted the invitation with grace and with Sir Alvary and all the necessary building enthusiasm. A man with such vast commitments work paid for by him with the idea that when it recently placed upon him could so easily have was no longer needed for living in it could be felt that a new assignment was just one too many. readily and cheaply converted into public rooms. The Duke remains a dedicated Yorkshireman and Thus was ensured that eventually the whole of would probably agree that his home at Carlton the main part of the building would possess its Towers is still central to his busy life. Your own integrity as a country house museum. So be committee is very sensible ofthe compliment paid it that within six months of Lady Gascoigne's to the L.A.C.F. by such a distinguished native death the City Art Gallery was closed so that ofour part of England. We can look forward to his building could start on the great new extension. taking the chair at next year's annual general This meant the temporary dispersal of the meeting which —unless some unforeseen disaster pictures and sculptures usually shown there. again hits the house —will take place once more in Some went to Temple Newsam, others to the Long Gallery at Temple Newsam. Work is Lotherton Hall; they enhance both houses, and nearly complete on the north wing and when in a number of cases it will be a hard decision as summer breaks again the house should be in full to whether they should ever leave them and working order. return to the centre of the city. Early this year To be able to welcome two people to what one the Gascoigne flat relinquished its privacy: two might call the 'Executive'f the L.A.C.F.in one fine rooms and a number of smaller spaces and editorial is quite something. The second is our display-worthy corridors have allowed the up- new Social Secretary, Mrs. Franqoise Logan, stairs walk for visitors to become even more full who has already demonstrated her charm and of visual pleasures. Some of the most beautiful of imagination in the trips she has planned and so the 19th century French pictures in the collection successfully carried through. One of her great are shown together in Lady Gascoigne's old assets is her enthusiasm and willingness to help bedroom —newly decorated but in the same in all manner of ways in promoting the work of colour scheme that she chose and lived with for the L.A.C.F.We wish her good fortune and hope nearly ten years. They bear a silent but eloquent that a sense of achievement will compensate, at tribute to her memory. In the other big room it least to some extent, for all the work she puts in. has been possible to put on show for the first time To say that the death of Lady Gascoigne last the splendid suite of bedroom furniture com- year marked the end of an era sounds a little missioned from the Leeds furniture makers trite, but it sums up precisely the sad truth. The Marsh and Jones in 1866 by Titus Salt junior for gift of Lotherton Hall by Sir Alvary and Lady Milner Field, the house at Saltaire (see article by Gascoigne in 1968with all its assets and potentials, Christopher Hutchinson in Calendar No. 80 which continue to be exploited, was one of the 1977). The furniture was acquired by Leeds in great landmarks in the history of the arts in the 1978. Other areas have been given to the modern North of England. The quality of their generosity collection and a bay set aside for Kate Wickham's is hinted at by the story of the flat they created in ceramic tiles in time for the article on them in the house for use when they were in Yorkshire. this issue of the Calendar. Perhaps it is per- Sir Alvary, it will be remembered, died in 1970 missable to think that a great benefactress, Ph 1 The Art Gallery extension: work in progress, December 1980. blessed with foresight, would have taken pleasure extension and will transform a large area of the in the knowledge that the pulse of her house is east end of the existing art gallery building still strong, its growth as healthy as ever and fronting on to Alexander Street.