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| I’m delighted the Hepworth-Wakefield gallery has taken up the school prints baton and is commissioning artists to make original prints for schools. In 1970 a colleague and I took over the School Prints Gallery from Brenda Rawnsley (Editorial, 15 January). We were running Observer Art, a project publishing original prints by leading artists in larger than usual editions, for sale through the newspaper’s colour magazine. We had discovered – in a coal cellar underneath the gallery in Belgravia – large piles of Brenda’s “auto-lithographs” still unsold. Brends also ran a picture-circulating scheme for schools, which at one time boasted over 250 subscribers. Schools were sent flatpacks of dry-mounted colour reproductions to put into frames with removable backs. At the end of term the prints were forwarded to the next school by BRS. | I’m delighted the Hepworth-Wakefield gallery has taken up the school prints baton and is commissioning artists to make original prints for schools. In 1970 a colleague and I took over the School Prints Gallery from Brenda Rawnsley (Editorial, 15 January). We were running Observer Art, a project publishing original prints by leading artists in larger than usual editions, for sale through the newspaper’s colour magazine. We had discovered – in a coal cellar underneath the gallery in Belgravia – large piles of Brenda’s “auto-lithographs” still unsold. Brends also ran a picture-circulating scheme for schools, which at one time boasted over 250 subscribers. Schools were sent flatpacks of dry-mounted colour reproductions to put into frames with removable backs. At the end of term the prints were forwarded to the next school by BRS. |
| I took this over until 1976 when I set up my own Goodwill Art Service and started a fresh, modernised circulating scheme called Learning Art History. This has been going for over 40 years, allowing hundreds of schools and thousands of children to look at countless paintings. However, I’m an octogenarian. I have bequeathed all my many Goodwill Art teaching resources to the National Art Education Archive in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. But I’d prefer this splendid picture collection to continue as a loan service. Is anyone out there who would like to take it on?Carol CattleyUpton, Oxfordshire | I took this over until 1976 when I set up my own Goodwill Art Service and started a fresh, modernised circulating scheme called Learning Art History. This has been going for over 40 years, allowing hundreds of schools and thousands of children to look at countless paintings. However, I’m an octogenarian. I have bequeathed all my many Goodwill Art teaching resources to the National Art Education Archive in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. But I’d prefer this splendid picture collection to continue as a loan service. Is anyone out there who would like to take it on?Carol CattleyUpton, Oxfordshire |
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