The SOLD! exhibition at The Bowes Museum is going very well; we’ve had lots of very positive and encouraging comments and visitors seem to like the Show – it’s running until the 5th May, so there’s still plenty of time to see the exhibition. But I also thought you would like to know of my parallel exhibition, due to open very soon at The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds – I’m keeping myself busy!
This new exhibition, called Antique Dealers: Buying, Selling and Collecting, will open at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery at the University of Leeds on Monday 4th March 2019 and runs until 25th May 2019. Here’s the gallery –
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds. Photograph, copyright University of Leeds.
– it’s a great space – although we are only going to be using the Education Room Space in the SABG as it’s a much smaller exhibition, but I still hope that it will draw further attention to the significance of the history of Antique Dealers to British cultural life. I’m still finishing the Text Panels and the object labels for this one, but they will be all ready for the printers this coming week.
The Antique Dealers exhibition is focused on the extraordinary range of antique dealer archives that have been so generously donated to the Brotherton Library Special Collections at the University of Leeds. As you may know, we have several highly important antique dealer archives at the University of Leeds library – including the archives of Phillips of Hitchin, Ronald A. Lee, Roger Warner, and H.C. Baxter & Sons. We’ve focused on just three of the archives for the Antique Dealers exhibition at the University – those of Phillips of Hitchin, Ronald A. Lee and Roger Warner – and have brought a few objects that the dealers sold to Temple Newsam, Leeds, back into dialogue with the original archive material. Just to whet your appetite here’s a few examples of the objects coming on loan from Leeds Museums & Galleries to the Antique Dealers exhibition at the SABG in Leeds.
From Temple Newsam, this historically important early 18th century side-chair from Houghton Hall in Norfolk, sold by Phillips of Hitchin to Temple Newsam in 1960.
Early 18th century Walnut side chair, sold by Phillips of Hitchin to Temple Newsam, 1960. Photograph from the Phillips of Hitchin archives, BLSC University of Leeds.
And also from Temple Newsam, this amazing painted stool, designed by C.H. Tatham and painted to imitate marble, which was sold to Temple Newsam in 1975 by the antique dealer Ronald A. Lee –
Painted stool designed by C H Tatham, c.1800; sold by R.A. Lee to Temple Newsam in 1975. Photograph Leeds Museums & Galleries.
We have also had an extraordinary range of objects on loan from the private collections of the Warner family – from Simon Warner, Deborah Warner and Sue Ashton, the son and daughters of the well-known antique dealer Roger Warner (1913-2003) – these are some wonderfully ‘curious’ objects that remained in Roger Warner’s collection until he died in 2003. We are so grateful to the Warner family for so generously loaning the objects that formerly belonged to Roger Warner – and especially to Simon Warner for so kindly delivering the objects to the University!
I’ll update the Blog on the progress on the exhibition in the coming week – and hope that people get a chance to see the new Antique Dealer exhibition at the Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds during the period it is on – 4th March to 25th May 2019 – it’s a FREE exhibition!
Mark
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