Report by the Chairman

[At the Ordinary General Meeting held at The Tate Gallery at 5.15 p.m.

011 Wednesday, November 3, 1948]

Contemporary Art Society 1 947- 1 948 The Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, s

Patron HE R M A J ESTY TH E QU E EN

Executive Com mittee

TH 1s YEA R I have a really startling piece of news to impart to you. It will make you rub your eyes,

another volume dealing with the development of Mr. Henry Moore's imposing group of Three

and I can hardly believe it myself. Within the last Figures, which was commissioned by the Society

w 1 two and a half years our membership has grown and accepted by the London County Council for from 300 to 1550. I am unselfishly, but I think permanent display in Battersea Park, where it had wisely, leaving the details to our Treasurer, Mr. been a much discussed feature of the exhibition Col in Anderson, who is more accustomed to deal- held there during the summer. This book, which ing with large figures than Iam, and for myself like its predecessor will be published by Messrs. l will only hazard the conjecture that the per- Lund Humphries and sold at a reduced price to centage increase is well over 500. But there is members, will also contain a consideration of the another sum, which J won't even attempt to work part which sculpture should play in the national out-what percentage is 1550 of the total adult li fe.

Chairman SI R E DWA R D MA RSH, K.C.v.o., C. B., C.M. G. population of this island? If Mr. Anderson will tell You may have noticed that the walls of this

me that, he will give us something to th ink about. room are hung with paintings and drawings. Hon. Treasurer COLIN A N DE RSO N A further point for consideration : It may be These are far from representing fully the recent

worth while to point out that in these days when additions to our stock,from which the directors of H on.Secretary H ON. S I R J AS P E R RI D L E Y, K. C.V.O. the price of everything else is soaring into the sky, the subscribing galleries will shortly be invited to

membershi p of our Society may still be had for make their choice. Our most important acqui- W. A. Evill the modest sum originally fixed in the piping sitions of the last two or three years are now on Mrs. Cazalet-Keir times of 1910; and perhaps some of those who tour in an exhibition supplemented by loans from

Sir Kenneth Clark, K.C.B. now punctua lly pay their guinea might find it the provincial galleries, which the Arts Council is Earl of Crawford and Balcarres in their hearts to supplement it with another sending round the country, thus displaying our E. C. Gregory for the Foreign Fund, or the Fund for Prints work,and I hope commending it, to a new public . Philip Hendy and Drawings? Other absentees are on a visit to Batley, where the Robin Ironside There is another matter for gladness and grati- Art GaJlery is only ju st beginning to form a per- Eardley Knollys tude in the fact which no doubt you know already, manent collection; and it is hoped that our loan Edward Le Bas, A.R.A. that the Queen has graciously consented to be our will be like the grain of sand inserted in an oyster Lord Methuen Patron. Her Majesty 's enlightened interest in to make the nucleus of a pearl. Raymond Mort imer modern art is well known, and I need not say that During 1948 the Society presented nearly 200

John Rothenstei n , c.B.E. th is mark of Royal favour is a source of the prints and drawings to subscribing galleries; and

Lady Sempill greatest encouragement to us all. the pictures which you see here-please remember

Lord Ivor Spencer-Ch urchill M r. John Russell's excellent book on our work, that they are only a sample of our possessions- Alan Ward called From Sicker/ to 1948, was received with will be distributed during the next few months,

general interest and there is a plan afoot for together with ourwhole stock of pottery and crafts. Assistan/ Secretary DENIS MA TH E WS

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Our next General Report, wh ich will be illus- trated, will be sent to members some time next month. Here they will read of a new plan to organise an exhibition, perhaps a series of exhibi- tions, of pictures chosen from among their own private collections. Though nothing is yet settled, we have great hopes that the Tate Board will, with their usual generosity, allow the exhibition to be held here in the spring, and we should propose to celebrate the private view with an evening party

year, was AT HOM E to members on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Here, over a cup of tea, we could browse over his treasures, which included an outstanding collection of European and Orienta l porcela in as well as English contempo- rary paintings. And then there was a memorable expedition in October to Northampton, when on one of the loveliest days of what might well have been called St. Matthew's Summer, over 200 people from London and Birmingham visited St.

Pu rchases by the Society IN 1947 TH E COM MISSION OF A SCULPT UR A L GROUP "THREE STA N DING FIGURES"

BY H E N R y M OO R E . P R ES E N TE D T O T H E PEO P LE OF LO N D O N I N 1948 TH R OUGH

TH E L O N DO N COU NTY COUNCI L FOR A PE R MA N E NT SITE I N BATTERSEA PA RK

like those which have been so successfully held in the last two years. Speaking from my own ex- perience, I must confess that I always take a great pleasure and interest and pride in seeing my treasures on the walls of a public exhibition. I see them in a new light, and feel that they have been

Matthew's Church to see the two impressive works of art, Henry Moore's Madonna and Child and Graham Sutherland's Crucifixion, with which the building has been adorned by that remarkable servant of God and of the Muses, the Rev. Walter H ussey, and to hear a concert of modern English

PAINTINGS

In 1947 by Mr. Edward Le Bas KEITH BA YNES The Orchard,Sussex WILLIA M COLDSTREAM Portrait CH AR LES G INN ER The Greenhouse DU NCA N GR ANT Landscape near Firle ALLAN G W YNN E-JON ES Still-life

Pt c La Lutte Angelique M ARY POTTER Deserted Pier W ILLIAM ScoTT Girl and Birdcage

Flowers in a Jug

WATERCOLOURS, PRINTS, AND DRAWINGS

In 1947 by Mr. Edward Le Bas chosen because they are liked and esteemed by others. "Small is the worth", I say as they are driven off in the van,

"Small is the worth

Of beautyfrom the light retired: Bid her comeforth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired".

music. This was not all, for earlier in the day Sir Michael and Lady Faith Culme-Seymour had welcomed the party at Rockingham Castle to en- joy not only their admirable collection of modern pictures, but also such irrelevant attractions as a banqueti ng hall dating from William the Con- queror, and the very portmanteau which King John left behind when he set forth for the Wash. The complicated arrangements for transporting

DER EK HILL Anticoli }VON HITCHENS Tangled Pool, No. l JOHN M I NTON Rotherhithefrom Wapping CLA UDE ROG ERS

Portrait of the pianist, Margerie Few A DR IA N R YA N Mousehole cA RI:L w ElG HT Sketching on the Roof.

Summer holiday, Weston-super-Mare

In 1948 by Mr.Raymond Mortimer ELINOR BELLINO HAM -SMITH Low tide, Putney

RosEMAR Y ALLA N Study VA NESSA BE LL Still-life

Decorative Panel FRA NK DOBSON Antelope DUNCA N GR ANT Nude BEN NICHOLSON Zennor, 1941 VIV IAN PITCHFORTH Landscape

In 1948 by Mr. Raymond Mortimer

Drawing Watercolour Watercolour

Drawing Pastel

Drawing Watercolour

And l trust that other members of the Society will feel that this pleasure and pride and interest are sufficient compensation for the unsightliness of a few temporary blank spaces on their walls, to be filled again with fresh delight when after a few weeks the truants are welcomed back.

In the course of the next year we hope to con-

and feeding such a multitudinous pilgrimage were the work of our Secretary, Mr. Denis Mathews. Everything went off without a single hitch, and if the Ministry of Transport had heard the story l feel sure they wou ld have tried to tempt Mr. Mathews away from us by the offer of a four figure salary; but as you see, he is still with us.

FRA NCES HODG KINS TheWeir EDW ARD LE BAS Still-life with Pheasant R OBERT MEDLEY

Beggars, Bird Carriers, and Sweet-seller

SIMON BussEY Japanese Waxwing Gouache D UNCAN GRANT Vanessa Bell Drawing DENIS MATHEWS Two Roads at Night Monolype NI N A HA M NETT Head of a boy Drawing

tinue the series of visits to private collections which have been so popular in the past. Some of the most successful of these took place this year . Mrs. Cazalet-Keir very kindly threw open her charming house, on Raspitt Hill, near Sevenoaks,

Itonly remains for me to announce the appoint- ment of Mr. Robin Ironside as Buyer for the year, and the retirement of three members of the Com- mittee, in accordance with a new procedure which has been laid down after much consideration.

In 1947 from Mr. Howard Bliss

G ifts to the Society

In 1948 from Sir Edward Marsh

where she had been at pains to supplement her own very fine collection with borrowings from those of her mother and her brother, to whom our thanks are also due. One Saturday in May, Mr.

Two of these members will be eligible for im- mediate re-election, but the other will not, so that if the two are re-elected there will be one vacancy. Owing to the lamented death of Mr. Samuel

BER N AR D MENINSKY Figures in a Landscape Oil

In 1947 from Mrs. Cazalet-Keir M ATTHE W SMITH Reflections Oil

LEON ARD APPELBEE Whiting JA MES FITTON Studio Mantelpiece CLIFFOR D FRITH LEONARD GREAV ES Pears

Oil Oil Oil Oil

Roland Penrose most generously allowed our members to see his stimulating collection of sur- realist and abstract paintings. All th rough the winter Mr. Evill, who joined our Committee last

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Courtauld, such a vacancy is already in existence, and I will in a moment ask Sir Jasper Rid ley to propose a candidate. The two who will ask for your suffrages are Sir Jasper Ridley and myself.

Jn 1948 from Sir Kenneth Clark EDWARD w AKEFORD The Opera Box A collection of watercolours , prints, and drawings

by Rosemary Allan, Graham Bell, In 1948 from Mr. Graham Robertson N. S. Hartrick, V. Hoffman, Edmund Kapp, Mary Kessel, Gerald Wilde MERLYN EV ANS Prehistoric Landscape

Oil

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Future Activities of the Society B IR MI NG H A M (cont)

R uH.1N SP EA R Mother and Child G R A H A M SUT H ER LA ND

G LASGOW

Oil WI L L IAM ROBE RTS Workman's Family G R A H A M SU T H E R L A N D

Drawing

A N E V E N I N G P A R TY WILL BE HELD AT THE TATE G A L L ERY, ON TU ESDAY, Midsummer Landscape

CA R EL WE I G H T Symphonic Tragique Watercolour

Oil Black Landscape

H A R ROG ATE

Watercolour

APRI L 5, 1949, FROM 8-30 P.M. TO l l -30 P.M. THE OCCASION WILL BE A PRI VATE BOOTLE JOHN PI PER Bombed Buildings in Bath Watercolour E R IC RAVI L LIOUS

VIEW OF A N EXHIBITION CHOSEN FR OM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE MEM BERS OF THE ED WA RD BAWDBN Willow Grove R O BI N DA RW IN Brasserie

Watercolour Oil

Paddle Steamers at Night Watercolour

SOCIETY. A BU FFET SU P PE R WI LL BE SER V ED , A N D A BA R W I L L BE A V A I L A B L E .

TICKETS WILL BE 10s. 6d. EACH FOR MEMBERS A ND THEIR GUESTS, BUT APPLI CATION

Harleton near Cambridge

BR ADFO R D

Watercolour H U D D ERS FI E LD

LEO N A RD A PPEL BEE Portrait of Sir Edward Marsh Oil

M AY O N L Y BE MA DE THROUG H A MEMBER. K AT H ER I N E CHU R CH

R OBERT COLQU HOUN

Oats near Glynde Watercolour

Woman with a Birdcage Oil

M U I R HEA O BO N E Storm over Hampstead Heath Drawing

The first exhibition of selected works belonging to The Society hopes to arrange for members to have members of the Society will be held at The Tate the opportunity of visiting some private collec- Gallery from April 6 to May 8. tions during the course of the year.

ROBI N G UTH RIE Nude CLIFFOR D H A LL The Storm H EN R Y MOOR E Drawing-1935

B RIG HTO N

D U NC A N G RANT Kneeling Man BER N A RD M EN INSKY Young Girl

Oil Watercolour

Pastel Oil

H ULL

H. E. DU PLESSIS Interior Watercolour FR A NCES H ODG KINS

Church and Castle-Corfe Gouaclte DE R W E NT LEES Blue Pool Oil

L EA M I NGTO N

Gifts from the Society BRISTOL

H E NRY M OORE Studies for Metal Sculpture Dra wing G R A H AM SUT H E R LAND

ROGE R FRY The Pulpit FA I R LI E H A R MA R The Cattle Market N. s. H A RTRICK The Pump RONA LD DU N LOP Rosalind Iden

Oil Oil

Tempera Oil

The Report issued last year did not name the gifts which the c;.A.S. made to various galleries in 1946. For the interest of members these are listed below.

A B E R D E E N (co/I/) DU NCA N G RANT Small Nude DAVID JONES Landscape

Drawing

Watercolour

Road Mounting between two Hedges-Sunrise Watercolour

LE E DS

VICTOR PASMORE Girl with a Handbag

Oil

This summary of the last three years' allocations is evidence of the Society's increasing influence.

EDMUN D K A PP Gipsy Boy

BATH

Drawing CA RDI FF

!VON HITCH ENS Landscape G R A H A M SUTH ERLA N D

J OH N TUNNARD Design

Oil LEICESTE R

Gouaclte

IN 1946

ROBERT BU H LER Portrait of Stephen Spender Oil

BEL FAST

Pembrokeshire Landscape Watercolour

CH ELTEN H A M

ED WA RD A RDIZZON E Beach Scene THOMA S CA RR The Farm Street R USK I N SPE A R The Tea-shop

Watercolour Watercolour

Oil

TH E TATE G ALLERY

PAUL NASH Landscape from a Dream GR AH AM SUTH ERL A N D Welsh Landscape

Oil Oil

VAN ESSA BE LL Piazzetta

BI R K E N H EA D

Oil M ERVY N PE A K E Head of an Old Man Oil LIN COL N

A NT H O NY G ROSS St. John's Church and School, Wapping Watercolour

A

THE VICTOR IA AN D A LBERT M USEU M

BIR MI NG HA M

EDWA R D A R D IZ ZONE

LOU IS L E BR OCQU Y Connemara Scene G RA H A M SUTH ERLA N D

Drawing

Royal lnstitutio11: LEONA RD A P PELBEE Still-life Oil R11tlterston Collection:

ERIC G ILL Cartoon Crucifixion Drawing

A BERDEEN EDWA R D A RDI Z ZONE Interior Watercolour EDWA R D BAWDEN Landscape Watercolour LAWRENCE GOWING

Sad Present iments after Goya Oil

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The Bed Sitting-room DUNCA N G R A NT On the Table

Decorative Panel H EN RY LA M B Still-life with Tea-things M ARY K ESSE L Girl with Grasses PAU L NAS H Oxfordshire Landscape J OH N PI PE R Cottages

Watercolour Oil Oil Oil

Watercolour Watercolour

Oil

Fallen Tree against a Sunset

D E R BY

G R AH AM B EL L Imogen CECI L CO LLINS The Gardener A NTH ON Y D EVAS Emma Dressed Up V I CTOR P ASM ORE Portrait of a Girl

Watercolour

Oil Drawing

Oil Oil

W. J. STEGG L ES Norfolk Smallholding Whitworth Art Gallery: G AU DIE R- BR ES KA Elephant CLIFFOR D MU RRAY The Migration

M ERTH Y R TY D FIL

A LA N G WY NNE- J ONES Miss Morgan

Oil

Drawing Drawing

Oil

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BAR N ETT FREED MA N Rye Harbour Watercolour DA R LI NGTO N J OH N Pr P E R Octagonal Church Oil THE N ATION A L PORTRAIT G ALLER Y EVELEEN BUCKT ON Dinton Wood Watercolour CLIFFOR D H A LL Quietly Flows the River Oil

HA RRY JONES LBERT RUTH ERSTON Portrait of Spencer Gore Oil

Mass in B Minor Oil H ENRY LAM B Landscape with Nude MA RY KESSEL House with a Rose Tree

Oil Oil

MANCHESTE R City Art Gallery: JOH N PIPER Stourhead Oil

M I DDLES BOR OU G H STA LY BR IDG E

KATERINA W1LCYNSKI EDWARD WOLFE Hassan Borromini Fantasy Drawing CEDRIC MOR RIS Heron

Watercolour Oil

N E W A R K

BERNA R D A DENEY Tunsley Bottom

N EWCASTL E

DUN CAN GR ANT Viola Player BE N N ICHOLSON Design GER A LD WILDE Landscape

Oil

Pastel Oil Oil

STOK E WILLIA M COLDSTREAM Mrs. Orde ROBIN DARWIN Nude BER NA R D LEACH John Dory BERNARD M ENI NSKY Nude MERVY N PEA KE Girl's Head

TASMAN IA

Oil Oil Tile Oil

Paste l

N E WPORT

LAWRENCE GOWING Nude

Oil

ROBERT COLQU HOU N Landscape with Figures Oil RUSKIN SPEA R The Shave Pastel

ROBERT MEDLEY Top Floor CAREL WEIGHT "My mother wept .. ."

NOTTING H A M

J. FORBES-ROBE RTSON Portrait of Cecilia W IL LIAM R OBERTS Landing

Oil TORONTO Oil RICHA R D SJCKERT St. Jacques-Dieppe

VI CT0RI A ( National Gallery)

Oil DU NCAN G R A NT Newhaven Cliffs Drawing

Oil .. Oil

OL DHA M

J A CQU ES B LA N C H E Max Beerbohm DER WENT LEES Landscape with Pigeons

OXFOR D (Ashmolean)

FREDERICK ETCH ELLS

Oil Oil

WAK E FIEL D ROBE RT BU H LER Cowshed DU NCAN G RA NT Three Figures BEN N ICHOLSON Piquet JOHN P1PER Cascade Through a Tunnel

WOLVERHA M PTON THOMAS LOWINSKY The Mask

Oil

Pastel Oil

Watercolour

Oil Woman Sitting in the Grass Oil

JOHN MINTON The Gate-Cornwall Drawing

PRESTO N

JOHN M INTON Cornish Landscape PATRICIA PREECE The Visitor

WOR KSO P

Wash drawing Oil

G EORG ES ROU AU LT La Mariee Presented to The Tate Callery in 1935

GEORGE BISSILL Shelbourne ROW LAND SUDDABY

Oil EV E K I R K Piazza de! Popolo Oil

Flowers in a Window Watercolour G RAHAM SUTHE R LAND

Rocky Landscape Watercolour

R OCHDAL E

YORK A. L. FAU LK E N ER The Sand-Diggers DORA SALMO N Nude with Flowers GEOFFR EY T1BBLE Head of a Girl

Watercolour Oil Oil

B. M ASON Chateau Neuf

SALFO RD

Oil

I N 1 948

Reproductions from the book From Sicker! to 1948, published by Lund Humphries. This book describes the achievement of the Contemporary Art Society, and

MATTH EW SMITH Gladioli in a Yellow Vase Oil

SHEFFIEL D

Drawings

TH E BRITISH M USEU M

is published to the public at !Bs. Members may obtain copies for themselves, or their friends, at the specially reduced price of 12s. from the publishers: 12 Bedford

MARY KESSE L Head Oil G RA HAM SUTH E R LAND

Hills Above a Lake Watercolour

M. A. J. BAUER Joseph in a Chariot SIR CHARLES HOLMES Steelworks JAMES HERALD Railway Station AU GUSTUS JOHN

Wash drawing Watercolour

Coloured chalks

Square, London, we!. The illustration above and the one shown on page 1I reveal the scope of the pur- chases which have enabled the Society to give in the past eight years, 8 paintings, 15 watercolours and drawings to the Tate Gallery; 225 watercolours, prints,

SOUTH A FRI CA (National Gallery) VANESSA BELL Valley in Autumn LEI LA FAITHFU L Beach Scene

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Oil Oil

Girl Seated, Head Turned to Front Pencil ANTON M AUV E The Tilt Watercolour A LFRED THOR NTON Woodland , Painswick Sepia ll'ash

and drawings to the British Museum; 419 paintings, watercolours , and drawings to the other galleries in the British fsles, the Dominions, and Colonies.

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Prints M. A. J. BAU E R

BlR M I NG H A M

A Gate Etc/ring D. Y. CA M ER ON Lorne

Watercolour A Street in Luxor

A Street in Constantinople BE RT R A M BU CH A N A N Seascape E DOU ARD GOERG Les Hommes et les Dieu x

Etching Etc/ring Etching Etching

W I N I F R ED K N IG H T Woman's Head w I LSO N STEER Forest Glade

BOOT L E

Silver point Wash drawing

A NTHON Y G ROSS Plaza, Madrid Promenade in Autumn

Etc/ring Etching M. BAU ER

K. BA Y N ES Gwalior Vigo, The Terrace

Etching Watercolo11r

The Postman's House Etc/ting C. H O LM ES Mell Fell from Troutbeck Watercolour A. LEPE R E La ferme aux peupliers de Hollande Etching SH A W MA CLAU G H LA N Cornish Landscape Etching

Ponte Ticino Etc/ting WILL IAM N ICHOLSON

New College, Oxford Litltograp ft H EN RY R usH BU R Y St. Victor, Marseilles Dry-point A. DU N OYER DE SEG ON ZAC

Bois de Cbarville Etching L'Etang aux ecrevisses Etc/ting Entree de la menager ie Etc/ring

Les Gosses Etching Entree de l'orangerie Etching

ST E I N LE N La Ville Lointaine Etchi11g E D MU N D W I LSON

Vine Wharf, Westminster Etching Wharves of Tilbury Etching

C. P1ssA R R O Rouen

BRA DFO R D

w. G I L LI ES The Beeches K. CH U RC H A Station, Evening

B R I G HTO N

W. R. S1c K E R T Siesta WY N D H AM LEWIS Seated Woman

Portrait of a Girl

CA R DI FF

w. R OBERTS Sunbathers D. G R A N T The Estuary

Etching

Watercolo11r Watercolour

Drawing Drawing

Wash drawing

Watercof o11r Watercolour

Dutch Eel-Boats Etc/ting Chelsea Gasworks Etching

ABE R D E E N

E. W OL FE Land scape B. M E N I NSKY Landscape

Landsca pe Watercofo111 Watercolour Watercolour

E 11c G 1L L Three woodcuts M U I RH E AD BON E

Sand Competition, Cromer J OH N COPLEY The Bath

Watercolour Lithograph

D E R B Y

J. M. W H I ST L E R Thames Warehouses ET H EL BERT W H ITE Sloping Fields

Etching Watercolour

SEY MOU R H A DE N The Agamemnon J. F. M I L LET The Sower Lif lwgraph R OBE RT CO L QU HOU N

Woman in a Straw Hat M onotypc·

DU NC A N G RA N T Road Scene Watercolour 0 LI V E R H A LL Landscape with Sullen Sky Etching

G L ASG O W

B ELFAST

J OH N N ASH Farm at Kimble E. BLA M P IED Camels at a Well E. G A BA I N Reverie matina le 0. S. MA CCOLL Pont de la Tournelle J. McBEY The Carpenter of Hesden

BIR K E N H EA D

W. OR PEN Grief A. ZORN The Letter OLI VER H A L L Landscape A. L E G ROS Matin sur la Riviere A. L. FAU L KENER Harbour

Watercolour Etchi11g

Lithograph Watercolour

Etc/ting

Chalk drawing Etching Etching Etc/ting

Watercolour

VA N D v c K Lucas Vorslcrman FE LICI E N R O PS Mater Dolorosa J. W H IST I.E R Manders Fish Shop

H A R R OG AT E

R. G UT H R I E Two Studies of a Chilu W. ROBE RTS Feeding Gulls A. LEG ROS U n Coin du Foret E. SE ABR OOKE The Edge of the Woou N. H AM N ETT The Sketch Club A. D. DE SE G ON ZAC L'arbre penchc J. W H ISTLE R The Little Pool

Etching Etching

Lit ftograplr

Drawing Drawing Etching

Watercolour Watercolour

Etching Etching

G R AHAM SUTHER LAND Fal l en Tree against a Sunset

Presented to The Art Gallery. Dar/ing to11, 1946

L. G RIMES Summer Landscape Watercolour H 0V E AL F R E D RICH Sunny Bank Watercolour DAVID Cox Land scape with Figures

Wolfstanbury WMercolour H. B. B R ABA ZO N Tancouvillc

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Watercofour Watercolour

II

L. P1ssA R RO Lafrette H U LL

Watercolour MIDDLESBO R O U G H

M. BAUER Outskirts of a Town

Etching Treasurer's Report

c. F. HOLM ES On the Eden PH ELA N GIBB Study Houses

H ASTING S

N. s. H ARTR ICK Scotch Timbers M ARGARET F. PROUT Old Bay Horse J. M. W H ISTLE R Cadogan Pier

Watercolour Wash drawing

Watercolour Watercolour

Etc/ring

MU IRHEAD BON E Archway, Chioggia A. D. VAN ANG ER EN The Maas BRODZ KY Fishing Group

NEWA R K

W. R. S1cKERT Envermew F. DOBSON Study for Toilet

Drypoint Etc/ring

Wt1tercolour

Watercolour Chalk drawing

[At the Ordinary General Meeting, November 3, 1948]

K ETTERING

A. ZOR N Portrait of the Artist in a Fur Cap J. McBEY Grimnessesluis

Etching Etching

W IN I FR ED N IC HOLSON Landscape

N EWCASTLE

Watercolour 1 AM glad to be able to report that our affairs are in a healthy state. Our membership has increased in the last two and a half years by 1200 (from 300

This is due mainly to our having had certain special extra expenditure last year of a kind that need not recur-though , even allowing for that,

A. G A NEsco Horses Watercolour G EORG E G RAH AM Hilltop, Wensleydale Watercolour E. G ABA I N Caprice Lithograph H. E. DU PLESSIS The Table Watercolour

R. SU DDA BY Window at Scholes, York R. COLQU HOUN Two Women Talking BRODZ KY Washing on the Line EDNA CLAR K HA L L

Watercolour Monorype

Watercolour

• to 1550), while this last year has been responsible for an increase of 300 (from 1250 to 1550). Sub- scriptions brought in, during the year we are re-

this year shows economies. Our Foreign Fund continues to build up, but

the sum of £2481 appearing to its credit is not all Flower in a Basket Watercolour viewing, a sum of £2202 13s. 6d. to the General spending money, as it includes £1400 worth of

LEEDS

A Collection of Japanese Prints

L EICESTER

K. VAUG H A N Farm Labourers Spreading Fertiliser Watercolour

ETH ELBERT W H ITE Forest Trees Watercolour

LI VER POO L

R UPERT L EE Fairy Tale

NOTT IN G H A M

R. SU D DA B Y Farmyard Pond W. ORPEN Candle-light

PR ESTO N

M U IRHEAD BON E Via Condotta, Rome AUGUSTUS JOHN Percy Wyndham Lewis D. S. MA CCOLL The Dock Gates

Watercolour

Watercolour Wash drawi11g

Drawi11g Etching

Watercolour

Fund alone. To our other funds some £200 were subscribed .

This enables us, for the first time, to set aside for our Buyer for the year, the sum of £1000. The evening party last spring brought in a profit of about £173 (and though our communal pleasures are not designed primarily as milch kine, I think no members will grudge it when they prove to be

capital (tbe gift of thelate Mr. Samuel Courtauld), of which we can only use the income as spending money. In effect,therefore, we now have stored up about £1000 to spend from the Foreign Fund, but with themanycurrency barriers ofto-day theoppor- tunities for securing important foreign works have been all too few, and this is the main reason for the growing balance in favour of this Fund.

CERI RICHA R DS Girl with a Cat P. w. STEER The Pier w. G ILLIES Inverlocky

LONG FOR D H A LL

BRoD ZKY Farm Group J. BEUDEL AY Le Chemin au Cabane B. BUCHANON Mont des Cats

Watercolour Watercolour Watercolour

Watercolour Etching Etc/ring

R. I RONSIDE Draped Figure A. RIC H At Horncastle, Lines.

R UG BY

I. H ITCH ENS Farm Buildings CERI RICHA R DS Mother and Child

SA LFO R D

Drawi11g Watercolour

Watercolour. Watercolour

so in a suitably mild way). In addition to these added accretions to our funds over those of pre- vious years, I am happy to report also that our expenses have been halved during the past year.

The Pottery and Crafts Fund we are winding up owing to a sad dearth of production of worthy objects. It can always be recreated if the position should change.

A. D. VAN A NGBREN The Maas Etching FR ANCIS BUTTBRFIE LD Two Women Chalk drawing

LOUGH BO R OUG H

AUGUSTUS J O H N The Old Haberdasher R EMBRA N DT Village with River

STOK E

Etchi11g Etching

Subscript ion by Deed of Covenant L. P1ssA R RO The Pool ER N EST DADE

Watercolour v. L. SHOESM IT H Landscape

Watercolour

Yorkshire Coast with Fishing Boats Watercolour

M A NCH ESTER Rutherston: ELIZ A BET H MORRIS

Stoneheads in a Greenhouse Gouache Whitworth:

A. W. RI C H Winchelsea Church J. HERA LD The Quayside F. UN WJ N Drury Lane J. MELV I L LE Woman Peeling Apples

WAK E FIELD

AUG USTUS JOHN Two Nude Figures

Watercolour Watercolour

Wash drawing Pastel

Drawing /

1F A N y member signs a Deed of Covenant, the Society can reclaim the income tax which has been paid on the subscription. In this way, with no additional cost to themselves, members can con-

the Inland Revenue a further £2 Il s. 6d. Similarly the normal subscription of Iguinea can be made worth £1 18s. Id. to the Society.

Please consider seriously entering into such a V. P1TCH FORTH Valley, Zululand V. SAR RAT The Forest Pool A. G R OSS Farmyard, Normandy

Watercolour Etc/ring Etc/ring

W. R. S1cKE RT In Regent's Park

WO R KSOP

Etching siderably increase our income. For example:

method of subscription, and if you approve, write to the Assistant Secretary, Contemporary Art

A. ZORN The Shallows G. R AVERAT The South Downs

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Etching Pe11 a11d Wash

W. STRANG S. Craig Annan, Esq. Etching J. M. W H IST LER TheAdam and Eve, Chelsea Etching

A member paying us 3 guineas a year, by sign- ing a Deed of Covenant, enables us to claim from

Society, The Tate Gallery, Millbank, London, S.W.I.

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General Fund

Foreign Fund

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..j>. THE CONTE MPOR A RY A RT SOCIETY R EV ENUE ACCOU NT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st DECEMBER 1947

TO EXPE N DIT UR E

Purchases

BY I NC OM E

Subscriptions

Expenses Donations

., Balance, being Surplus for year carried to Balance Sheet

Interest on Investments (G ross)

Interest on Deposit . .

NOTES: I. Auditors' 2. The Mem

tee receive

Proceeds of Sale of Party Tickets less Expenses

THE CON TE MPO R A RY ART SOCIETY B A L A N C E SHEET, 31st DEC EM B ER 1947

CCUMULATED FU ND S CU RR ENT ASSETS £ s. d. £ s. d. INVESTMENTS AT COST £ s. d. £ s. d.

Bala nce at 1st January 1947 . . 5868 3 7 General Fund Add Profit on Sale of Investment 858 8 0 500 National Savings Certificates 400 0 0

Surplus for year .. 818 8 6 £1429 3t % War Stock . . . . 7545 0 l £2500 2t % Defence Bonds

Foreign Fund Balance at 1st January 1Q47 . . 2298 17 5 £1429 3 % War Stock .. .. 1429 0 0

Add Profit on Sale of Investment I17 10 6 £300 2t % Defence Bonds .. 300 0 0

Surplus for year .. 65 2 I (Market Value £6327) 6058 0 0 2481 10 0 CASH AT BANK

Pottery and Crafts Fund General Fund Balance at 1st January 1947 .. 56 I l Current Account 25 16 0 I

Add Surplus for year 19 14 0 Deposit Account 700 0 0 75 15 I Foreign Fund

Prints and Drawings Fund Current Account .. .. 752 10 0 Balance at 1st January 1947 104 5 9

Add Surplus for year .. 59 17 0 Pottery and Crafts Fund 164 2 9 Current Account . . .. 75 15

NOTES: J .No value bas been included in Prints and Drawings Fund the Balance Sheet for Pictures, etc., Current Account .. .. 164 2 9 purchased by or presented to the Society, 4208 7 11 and temporarily retained pendino pre- sentation to Art Galleries, etc. "

2. Dividends received on War Stock are

COLIN AN DERSO N, Hon. Treasurer } Members of the

carried to the respective Funds JASPER RIDL EY, Hon. Secretary Committee as Subscriptions from the late Mr. S. Courtauld.

£10266 7 I I ' £10266 7 11

R EPORT OF TH E A U DITORS to the M embers of The Contemporary Art Society We have obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit. I n our opinion proper books of account have been kept by the Society so far as appears from our examination of those books. We have examined the above Balance Sheet and annexed Revenue Account which are in agreement with the books of account. In our opinion, and to the best of our information, and according to the explanations given us, the said Accounts give the information required by the Companies Act, 1948 in the manner so required and the Balance Sheet gives a true and fair view of the state of the Society's affairs as at 31st December 1947, and the Revenue Account gives a true and fair view of the Surplus for the year ended on that date.

Vi 4 Fenchurch Al'enue, London, F.C.3 14th Octoher 1948 G E R A R D V A N DE LI N D E & SON

Chartered Arco1111tants, Auditors

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General Fund

Foreign Fund

Pottery &

Crafts Fund

Prints & Drawings

Fund

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

2202 13 6

57 7 2

37 I 0

105 7 0

4 IO 0 - - -

69 I I

7 14 11 -

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3 9 1 1 - -

-

139 13 9

-

- -

2419 8 3

65 2 1

37 I 0

105 7 0

General Fund

Foreign Fund

Pottery & Crafts Fund

Prints & Drawings

Fund

£ s. d.

£

s. d.

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

854 8 0

-

17 7 0

45 10 0

746 1 1 9

- - -

818 8 6

65

2 I

19 14 0

59 17 0

ee £31 10 O. e rsof the Commit-

no emoluments.

2419 8 3

65

2

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37 I 0

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105

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1429 0 0 2500 0 0

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