: eec.s Arts Ca..enc.ar 7he Libraries and Arts Sub-Committee No. 56 1965 Art Gallery and Temple JVewsam House The Lord Mayor Contents Chairman Alderman A. Adamson Editorial page 2 Alderman F. H. O'Donnell, J.p. Alderman Mrs M. Pearce, J.p. Country House Alderman H. S. Vick, J.p. Paraphernalia at Alderman J. T. V. Watson, LL.B. Temple Newsam page 5 Councillor Mrs G. Bray Councillor P. Crotty, cc.tt. Councillor F. W. Hall Arts Calendar page 12 Councillor E. Kavanagh Councillor S. Lee Councillor Mrs Lyons The Leeds Pottery L. its Councillor Mrs A. Malcolm and Wares Councillor A. S. Pedley, D.F.c. A bibliography page 15 Co-opted Members Lady Martin Cover Quentin Bell, M.A. Prof Hatchmenl for Arlhur, third Viscounl, Mr W. T. Oliver, M.A. Irwin, d. 1702. Mr Eric Taylor, R.E., A.R.G.A. The arms of IJtlGRA M impaling Director MACHEL. Mr Robert S. Rowe, M.A., F.M.A. Painted by Robert Greaves of Fork in 1702. Oil on canvas, 43 x 43 in. 7he Leeds Art Collection Fund President H.R.H. The Princess Royal Vice-Presidenl The Rt Hon the Earl of Harewood, LI..D. Trustees Sir Herbert Reacl, D.s.o., M.c. Mr W. Gilchrist Mr. C. S. Reddihough Committee Alderman A. Adamson Mrs E. Arnold Prof Quentin Bell Mr George Black Mr W. T. Oliver Hon Mrs Peake Mr Fric Taylor Hon. Treasurer Mr Martin Arnold Leeds Art Collections Fund Hon Secretary Mr Robert S. Rowe This is an appeal to all who are interested in the Arts. The Hon Social Secretary Leeds Art Collections Fund is the source of regular funds for Mrs S. Gilchrist buying works of art for the Leeds collection. We want more subscribing members to give one and a half guineas or Hon Membership Secretary upwards each year. Mr D. Mason Jones Why not identify yourself with the Art Gallery and Temple All communications to be addressed to the Hon Secretary Newsam; receive your Arts Calendar free each quarter; receive at?empte Aewsam House, Leeds. invitations to all functions, private views and organised visits Subscriptions for the Arts Calendar should be sent to to places of interest. by writing for an application form to the The Hon Treasurer, c o E.J. Arnold tk Son Ltd. Butterley Street, Leeds 10 Hon Treasurer, E. M..4rnold Esg., Buttertey Street, Leeds 10 3/- per issue (postage 5d.k 13/- per annum, post free Single copies from the Art Gallery and Temple Newsam House When this issue of the Calendar was printing the sad news of the death of H.R.H. The Princess Royal was announced. Members of the Fund would like to offer very sincere sympathy to Lord and Lady Harewood and their children. They also grieve for themselves in losing a President so gracious and so completely imbued with the values for which the L.A.C.F. has stood throughout its long history. Perhaps the Princess's greatest strength lay in her absolute genuineness and integrity in a world —specially that of 'art' so full of foibles. It was these qualities which made her appear at times quite oblivious of her own convenience in undertaking something she thought would help a worthwhile cause. Her formal exhibition openings at the Art Gallery and her informal visits to Temple Newsam were always occasions to remember for their complete lack of superficiality and the intriguing grasp she displayed of the work in progress museum-wise no less than her refreshing knowledge of the subject under discussion, from silver to water-colours. Her Royal Highness has been called 'the Yorkshire Princess', and this means a very great deal, for she drew affection from everybody who had the remotest contact with her. The Fund will sadly miss her moral and practical support. Editorial The most important news to record is Not so long ago the Calder mobile was the two major acquisitions made by the in the news and before that Barbara Art Collections Fund recently and now on Hepworth's Configuration, surely one of the show at the Art Gallery. Both the great most satisfying things she has ever carved. Henry Moore bronze Reclining Figure 1964 Any sense of complacency with the way and the silver race cup of 1774 were dis- things are going is immediately dispersed, played before the public for the first time however, by recalling the disappearance when the reconstituted lower Sam Wilson of Kenneth Armitage's ?wo Standing gallery was opened by the Lord Mayor on Figures from the sculpture gallery four days 7th January —more about the build-up before Christmas. It is possible that it will to this event later. still be recovered —a description of a man The Henry Moore is, perhaps, the most seen a few minutes before its absence was spectacular acquisition ever achieved by noticed has been given to the police —but the fund and it was made possible by the it is a disturbing thought that there are generosity of the sculptor. He has shown, people about with squalid enough desires through the years, great interest in the to undo the work of the Fund, or the Art Fund's efforts to make really substantial Gallery Committee, or nullify the gener- improvements in the visual art amenities osity of a benefactor by irresponsible of Leeds and in the dogged way in which thieving, however ingenious or bold the it has set its sights at what have often method of doing it might be. seemed impossible targets. Discussion Turning to a happier subject —the pur- over an example of recent work by which chase of the race cup. This is the first he should be represented in the city, piece of silver to be bought by the L.A.C.F. where some of his most formative student and it would be hard to think of anything years were spent, have been going on with better suited to fill the role of an inaugural Mr. Moore for some four years or so. In purchase. The cup is a really splendid the end the choice was largely his and it example of top quality silversmith's work appears indisputable that Leeds now pos- of the neo-classical period in England. Its sesses one of the finest bronzes he has yet size and proportion give it a fine public cast. There is some sense in seeing it in presence and its unique stand confers the relation of the Hornton stone Reclining sort of elegance that a well-dressed woman 14oman in 1929, bought by the Corpora- might add to her person by wearing high- tion with a government grant in 1941, for heeled shoes. The cup's detail is immaculate they both seem to represent so well the too and similarly repays the closest scru- sculptural thought of the artist at the time tiny; every conceivable silversmithing they were created and, by implication, technique has been used to produce an the progress of an aesthetic idea over a amazingly rich yet disciplined effect. We period of thirty-five years. It would be may eventually find out for what race the wonderful if one day we could fill in the cup was made; at the moment we know gap left when the British Council's Reclining little about it except that a certain William Figure, shown in the park at Temple Moore was the retailer and was proud Newsam, was withdrawn from loan a few enough of having it pass through his years ago. hands to engrave his name on the bezel The advent of the new bronze reminds of the cover. The cup, which had been in one of other important additions to the the Rothschild collection, was sold at sculpture collection made by the Fund. Christie's last May and its subsequent self-help lines shown us by America than we do now. Fresh endeavours must be m~kK made. 18iR Twentieth-century sculpture and eight- ~ Me e.*~ eenth-century silver, so different yet both excellent representatives of their time and with equally impeccable ancestries, are at present near neighbours in the recon- structed lower Sam Wilson gallery already referred to. The new work here was e ~ planned to make the most of qualities in this rather peculiar the I MI implicit part of Art Gallery which looked so forbidding ~ pl~I when entered from the Queen's Room. The main idea was to create an open-air piazza i)~ effect in the middle so that justice might be done to some of the sculpture which seemed to ask for daylight conditions. We also wanted to make a striking contrast of lighting v hen coming from the existing sculpture gallery in order to titillate the eye and invite further inspection. Either end of this 'piazza're precincts with showcases containing pottery and silver ', —of their nature three dimensional too, but on a different scale from the sculpture. The only light here is the spill from the cases, the walls and ceilings being blacked out, and we hope that this aquarium-like arrangement provides psychological cheese —tasty in itself, but able to clear the aesthetic palate between the wine tast- ings provided by the two sculpture areas. It has been possible to include some good vistas too ending sometimes in a piece of Race Cup and story goes like this: it was bought by a sculpture at others in a brightly-coloured Stand the show case. Colour in fact a big part London 1774—75. dealer for an American collection, plays Makers'arks: L.A.C.F.