The Heart is a Lonely Hunter: A group show opens at YARAT Contemporary Art CentreĮxhibition at La Criée presents a selection of works by Swedish artist Runo LagomarsinoĮxhibition featuring contemporary wood sculpture opens at the Fleming Museum of ArtĬharity guitar auction benefits Austin, Hill Country flood victims Parcours des Mondes bets on the arts of Asia and wins 'Red Wealth: Soviet Design 1950-1980' opens at Kunsthal RotterdamĬlark Art Institute announces record-breaking attendance Who dares wins: Viennacontemporary launched with successful opening nightīlaffer opens first solo museum exhibition for British-Nigerian video artist Zina Saro-Wiwa Spotlight on a "revolutionary" Rutgers alum: Simeon De Witt exhibition at the Zimmerli Guernsey's announces unprecedented auction of original tattoo art from the Peter Mui Collection Map specialist Daniel Crouch Rare Books donates rare embroidery fragment to Bodleian Library Large-scale installation by sculptor Richard Wentworth premieres at Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Turello's collection of photographsĮxhibition at Hauser & Wirth in London presents a new series of paintings by Anj SmithĮxhibition of new works by Cerith Wyn Evans opens at White Cube Bermondsey Sotheby's Hong Kong Modern Asian Art Autumn Sales to include 26 rare and important sculptures by Ju MingĪrtcurial to offer fashion photographer Amedeo M. Helsinki Art Museum announces reopening following expansion of the museum's historic 'Tennis Palace'Įxhibition of Andy Warhol's late paintings on view at Skarstedt in New York The Morgan opens first major museum exhibition on the life and writings of Ernest Hemingwayįontana £15-20 million masterpiece 'La Fine di Dio (The End of God)' to lead London's Frieze Week sales Wichita Art Museum rolls out the "green" carpet with art garden grand opening Very little is known about the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry, but it is likely they created works on a commission basis, which were exhibited and sold to create revenue to continue the societys work. After her marriage ended in divorce, she filled her time with philanthropic projects, such as The Friends of the Poor, of which the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry was an offshoot.įor men severely injured on the battlefield, the needlework created a way of making money, but also a much- needed therapeutic artistic outlet. One such commission was requested of The Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry, an organisation started post WW1 by Princess Marie Louise, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. Countrywide searches where mounted to discover more fragments from the Sheldon workshop, as well as requests for artisans to create copies of sections of the maps. For Britain in the throes of a recovery from WW1, the Sheldon Tapestries with their depiction of Englands green and pleasant land proved immensely popular. It was the first time that all four maps could be viewed together and the impact the display had was immense. The Victoria and Albert Museum had an exhibition of the four Sheldon tapestry maps in 1914. We have collaborated with Nick Millea, Head of the Bodleian Map Library and tapestry expert Hilary Turner to put together the complicated story of this fragment, which has a significance that links five centuries. The embroidery was commissioned by Lady Granet and shown at several Disables Soldiers Embroidery exhbitions in the late 1920s.ĭaniel Crouch says: We are delighted to donate this rare piece of 20th century history to the Bodleian Library. It extends west to east from Paddington to Hackney, and north to south from Finchley to Stoke Newington. The piece is copied from the Oxfordshire map, which includes London. The fragment will be restored and then exhibited in the Weston Library, alongside other Sheldon tapestries and fragments.
Its proof of how a mistake can turn out to be a discovery. says Daniel Crouch. Its historical significance therefore took another turn. I bought the fragment blind at an auction, hoping it could be 16th or 17th century original, but it turned out to be a 20th century copy. The embroidery fragment is based on a section of the Sheldon Tapestry map of Oxfordshire, one of four maps completed around 1590, depicting Oxfordshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, all of which are in the Bodleian Library, and Warwickshire, which resides in the Market Hall Museum, Warwick. Daniel Crouch Rare Books, the UKs leading map dealership, donated an embroidered map created by the Disabled Soldiers Embroidery Industry and dated 1926 to the Bodleian Library.
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