LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR MP intra C.rrel~lettZc7i / Wlc7ttrc" ( Cttte a/l /tlCClf/ nmntcre nett'e let/e artt'n'otto ct"Pfirc/zero zl /a valirr <ir ~attaPirazcrsi DDD. "WC c~ ~ 1 r wr 'f ctQf f rnzimdntr antzrc'trovizt'ra lr riant ai nn Sq', /rro su//i lza fppza vzrczzo a Capo aiszlozr nrlli ivono rrnrz Qzzrsto mrincmrntr nr'szirc efgizcrr di 'thnia maairr r rzvrz cia szi i trrma Ala vr i si rrccdr)mrtzrotzrr/ra nilcz /iso = radrrnat. tzcatzvr/ahd'intact/z c ~ c 'srrvi rgnmcolinrcdc'ptr/cr arnz'dc'c/zcrstogrnrrr. frzn/'ra r/cr pcrstr n irJ~r rJsrrrstit rrrir. »ri ichor ri l rnrrir do//'' i c re''z/ ziz, lrrn...., mos'+tc'difervo natz zn rasa dillydronr linzrr rare rr, r c z'r sc rclr vcr rtnllz nrmc zsc zzrnr /r8arucs, n'i .l'z z c'cr /nr /s a/trc antw cubi da/d zlcctovr /'rnrrz'crier/'z uc''c/zcn'cn/z<z/ .renti' rcnoznztr nrlsitr z~rlscsra /'csrrczcazzr LEGACIES TO THE LEEDS ART COLI ECTIONS FUND The LACF depends forits income entirely on members and supporters. 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B.Piranesi, plate from Vasi, Candelabri, Cippi, Sarcophagi... (I 778h dedicated to the Earl of Lincoln, uncle of the fourth Duke of Newcastle LEEDS ARTS CALENDAR NUMBER 98 ~ I986 Editorial . Ararequartetofchairs . GHRIsTopHER GILBERT 3 Temple Newsam and 'the good Shepheards' ADRIAN BUDGE ~ 8 Another look at Lady Hertford s Chinese Drawing Room ANTHDN Y wELLs-cot.E I6 Two bronze dogs from the Hope Collection ADAM w HI TE ~ 2,3 Piranesi, Mr Messenger and the Duke of Newcastle JAMEs LQMAx ~ 2.6 . 'R~~M~~MMIM~ Carved and gilt pine panel, part of Lady Hertford's decorative scheme in the Terrace room at Temple Newsam, c. x 827 EDITORIAL It has been remarked that staging special exhibi- came to light. The article on a pair of bronze tions is the nearest approach a gallery ever makes greyhounds offers another glittering example of to the performing arts such as music or drama. curatorial expertise. Bequeathed to us by Mrs D. U. Certainly, in common with concerts and plays, it is McGrigor Phillips in z 96'hey were always fondly notoriously difficult, when planning a programme, called the Medici firedogs because none of us knew to forecast those events which turn out to be what to make of them. As fringe pieces of sculpture popular successes. Sometimes a low budget exhibi- Adam White decided to investigate their history tion will attract many thousands of visitors while a and proved to everyone's astonishment that they prestigious international touring show passes were originally made for a celebrated London largely unnoticed. Since the Art Gallery re-opened house. Thus, far from being quaint oddities they in r98z we have tasted both experiences. For now take an honourable place in the mainstream of instance, when the Arts Council's ambitious and European decorative art and an American museum imaginative Mare Chaimowicz exhibition came to has already asked to borrow them for a major Leeds in z98q it barely caused a ripple in the exhibition. attendance figures, whereas recently, Andy Golds- Another article on four chairs underlines a recent worthy's first major touring exhibition of photo- change in the direction of our furniture collecting works titled 'Rain Sun Snow Hail Mist policy (perhaps better described as diversification). Calm'hich we anticipated would be enjoyed mainly by It also emphasizes the enormous debt we owe to the connoisseurs, has proved a runaway success, generosity of private individuals who genuinely requiring the catalogue to be reprinted twice. We care about furniture. are particularly proud of this achievement because Anthony Wells-Cole's versatile piece on the the show was organized jointly by Terry Friedman Chinese Drawing Room reflects his devotion to and Tony Knipe; furthermore the artist has now Temple Newsam and sheds interesting new light on been retained by a leading London dealer. It is this one of our finest period interiors. This glamorous unpredictable factor that makes trying to plan a room is in the process of being restored to its balanced programme so challenging. original state with income from the Frank Fulford Whilst engaged in a little boasting reference must Endowment Fund; the significant new information be made to 'The Irresistible Object: Still Life which has emerged as work proceeds is fully z6oo—r98g'rranged by Alex Robertson who described and we hope this will be the first of a assembled a memorable array of paintings by, series of definitive studies about historic interiors in amongst others, Picasso, Van Gogh, Cezanne, the house. The next rooms in the programme will Gauguin, Chardin, and Braque. Works by these be the Edwardian library and the Great Hall where famous artists had not been seen by the Leeds Philip Hendy removed 'offensive Victorian accre- public for at least a generation and the exhibition tions'ut partly redeemed himself by dumping was a real crowd puller, attracting g r,ooo visitors them in the cellars instead of having a bonfire. The in seven weeks. We hope that next autumn' great fact of Temple Newsam is the building itself 'Angels of Anarchy and Machines for Making and we have a responsibility (and at last the funds) Clouds: British Surrealism in the Thirties', again to ensure that the decorative schemes are as masterminded by Alex Robertson, will be even authentic as painstaking research will allow. more popular. Adrian Budge, who left in zy8z to go to the Art Galleries are of course about more than National Museum of Photography in Bradford, is exhibitions as this issue of the Calendar amply well remembered by colleagues for his enthusiastic demonstrates. James Lomax publishes the results interest in the owners of Temple Newsam and, by a of his research into a pair of Regency colza lamps wider audience, for his stimulating art appreciation purchased at Christie's in r98y. At the time we courses. We welcome him back, as it were, to print recognized them as excellent of their kind, but did a typically lucid account of Samuel Shepheard, one not fully appreciate their art historical importance of the more obscure members of the clan, and his until the design source and relevant documentation formidable daughter.