Gift of Prints and Drawings from the Contemporary Art SocietyAuthor(s): Arthur M. HindSource: The British Museum Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Mar., 1937), p. 96Published by: British MuseumStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4421958 .

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XXV. a, DRAWING BY FRANK BRANGWYN. b, PORTRAIT OF MATISSE BY VIVIAN FORBES

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inherited by the latter's sister, who sold it to the firm from which it was acquired by the British Museum. It forms an interesting addi- tion to the group of original works by Rossetti in the collection, where hitherto the earliest pen-and-ink drawing has been the study, made in I853, for the picture 'Found', bequeathed by Colonel Gillum, together with other Rossetti drawings, in 1910o.

EDWARD CROFT MURRAY.

64. GIFT OF PRINTS AND DRAWINGS FROM THE CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIETY.

ONE hundred and twenty-one prints, thirty-one drawings, and

one book of reproductions have recently been presented to the Museum by the Contemporary Art Society. Most important of the prints is the series of Stations of the Cross, fourteen large lithographs by Frank Brangwyn, R.A. (see P1. XXVa). Brangwyn's designs originated in the cartoons which he was preparing for oil paintings intended for Arras Cathedral, but the paintings were never completed. One set of the lithographs was printed by an entirely new process on sycamore panels, and presented to Campion Hall, Oxford.

The prints include examples of the work of Albert Abramovitz (American subjects), Stanley Anderson, S. R. Badmin, D. P. Bliss, Ian Cheyne, John Copley, Paul Drury, John Farleigh, Eric Gill, Edwin Greenman, A. S. Hartrick, Stanley Hickson, William Ker- mode, J. E. Laboureur, Mariette Lydis, Concord and Cavendish Morton,John Platt, Gwendolen Raverat, Eric Ravilious, F. H. Spear, C. F. Tunnicliffe, Urushibara, Clifford Webb, and Josef Weisz.

Among the drawings may be mentioned works by Lily Blather- wick (the late Mrs A. S. Hartrick), Horace Brodzky, Charles M. Gere, Karl Hagedorn, Mary Hogarth, Beatrice How, Anton Lock, Georges Loukomski, Ambrose McEvoy, Christopher Perkins, Percy J. Smith, Alfred Thornton, and Vivian Forbes (see P1. XXVb, Portrait of Henri Matisse). Twenty-five per cent. of the annual purchases of the Fund, which

is administered by the Keeper of Prints and Drawings, is now allotted to provincial and other Museums besides the British Museum.

A. M. HIND.

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