Catalogue of the Additional Papers of bernard leach
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-300- l. Pots - General 13382-13393 Various
Various: medieval English and Japanese. m. T'ang Wares. Figures and Figurines 13394-13469 13470 8-9th Century n.d. Various. Glass slides. n Kenzan and Sano Kenzan Illustrations 13471 13472-13558A 1967
Photographs of the 24th and 25th Sano Kenzan diaries, bought by Yonemasa in Nagano Ken, c. 1962-63. "Kenzan Illustrations": most have exhaustive explanatory notes endorsed in BL's hand; all 6 Kenzans represented. Includes box of slides. Many endorsements by BL. 13559
13560 13561-13563 13564-13573
13574-13578 13579-13600 13601
13602 13603
1917, July 28
pre-1920 1948-60
1954
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o. Miscellaneous
Renaissance masters, by a self-taught Japanese, Kono M, aged 20. The Tea ceremony. Examples of the script of Dr. Daitsetz Suzuki, Soetsu Yanagi and Professor Hisamatsu Shin'ichi, collected by Dr. Terry Barrow. Puppet theatre: photographs and accompanying documents in Japanese. Envelope has BL sketches and the date: performance given at the Mingei Kwai, Tottori. Kabuki theatre. Noh theatre. Woven material with central motif A view in Seoul, capital of Korea. The house of Margaret and Dorothy Pilkington at Alderley Edge, Cheshire. "Summer landscape at Barngallow, near St. Austell", Cornwall, showing a china clay pyramid.
13605
13606-13619 n.d.
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[9/41].
13619A
1954 8. TAPES AND FILMS a. Tape Cassettes i.Bernard Leach TAPE of BL's Japanese talk at Shilzuoka (?) during his 1953-54 visit to Japan. [11/11].
13620 1974 Nov 3 TAPE CASSETTE: BL and DL discuss the Dartington Training Workshop.
13621-13622 1975
TAPE-CASSETTES: copy verbal letters, BL to Warren MacKenzie. 2 items. 13623 1975
TAPE CASSETTE: BL and DL disscuss an article by Bob Rogers on "Reflections on Freedom and Ceramics", in Ceramic Review for April, 1975, and compare it with Mike Dodd's article "In Defence of Freedom" in Pottery Quarterly (Vol. II, No. 43). Side 2 has part of a BL discourse on the "Contemporary Potter" at the Dartington Conference of 1952, read by DL 13624 1975
TAPE CASSETTE: Bob Rogers on "Freedom & Ceramics", See item above (13623). [9/46].
13625 1977
TAPE CASSETTE: BL at Geographical Hall, 1977. Also taking part are Michael Cardew, Lord Dalton, DL, JL, John Houston, Victor Margrie and Edwin Mullins. -302- ii Others 13626-13632 1975, Dec to 1979 April TAPE CASSETTES: verbal letters from Warren MacKenzie to BL. 7 cassettes.
13633-13637 n.d.
[c. 1970's] TAPES and tape cassettes, verbal letters, undated, from Warren MacKenzie to BL. b. Films 13638 1950
FILM: San Francisco, 1950. [9/35]. 13639 1966
FILM: "BL arrival Tokyo 1966". [9/36]. 13640 1967?
FILM: BL's exhibition at the Crane Kalman Gallery, London.
Damaged. 9. HALF-TONE PRINTING BLOCKS 13641-13715 Various dates HALF-TONE printing blocks on copper: 13641-13644: BL (incl. BL and others) - 4. 13645-13680: BL pots-36. 13681-13690: BL flatware (incl. unfolding bracken, dove, etc) - 10. 13691-13696: BL etchings (incl. Ogata Kenzan, frog, mountain scene, etc) -6. 13697-13703: Leach Pottery - 7. 13704-13714: Tiles and fireplaces (leaping deer, etc)-11. 13715: Tomimoto's "Porcelain Gateway". 75 in all.
-303- 10. MISCELLANEOUS a. Newspaper Cuttings 13716-13717 1913 May 17/18 CUTTINGS from The Japan Advertiser. Tokyo, with a 2-part article on "Art Revolution: It's Echo in Japan", possibly by BL ("From a Correspondent"). Heavily annotated in ms., one with a pencilled heading by BL -"This must necessarily be a review & I shall freely quote from many sources".
13718 1913
CUTTING from The Japan Advertiser. Tokyo, with an article: "Official Art: A Criticism", by BL. 13719 c. 1918
CUTTING from an unnamed paper, with a report of BL's speech to the Tokyo Women's Club on "Tang [sic] Figurines". 13720 c. 1920
CUTTING from the Japan Advertiser. Tokyo, with an article by E.E. Speight on the drawings of BL. 13721 post-1920 CUTTING from an unnamed paper, referring to the opening of the show-room at the Leach Pottery, St. Ives.
13722 1921 April 30 CUTTING from The Graphic with an article by Yone Noguchi: "An Englishman Honoured by Japan". Illus. 13723 [1921 Nov] CUTTING from Potter Record (?), with a review of the Home Arts and Industries Association exhibition at Drapers' Hall. Reference is made to exhibits by BL, Dora Lunn, Mrs. GF Watts, Frances E Richards and the Walberswick Peasant Pottery Co. 13724 1922 July 29 CUTTING from the Hampstead & Highgate Express referring to pottery by BL now on sale at a local store.
13725
1922 Nov20 -304- CUTTING from the Glasgow Herald, referring to BL's exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery. 13726
CUTTING from the Westminster Gazette, referring to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13727
CUTTING from the Morning Post, referring to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13728
Nov25
13729 1922 Nov 24
CUTTING from the Architect (and the Sphere) referring to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13730 1922 Nov 25
CUTTING from the Spectator referring to BL's exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery, Soho. 13731 1922 Nov 26
CUTTING from the Sunday Times referring to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition, under the title: "Potter and Etcher". 13732 1922 Nov 30
CUTTING from New Age, briefly referring to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13733 1922 Dec 2
CUTTING from the Arts Gazette referring to BL's exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery. Etchings are mentioned. 13734 1922 Dec 15
CUTTING from the Schoolmaster, concerning BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13735 1922 Dec 16
CUTTING from Arts Gazette referring to the "Christmas Presents" exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery, with works by BL, Russell Alexander, Mrs. AJ -305- Gaskin, Albert Rutherston, Harold and Phoebe Stabler, etc. 13736
CUTTING from The Complete House Furnisher. referring to the BL exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery. Illus. 13737 1922? CUTTING from an unnamed paper, a duplicate of the [Daily Graphic! article by W R Calvert, of equal date. 13738 1922?
CUTTING from the [Daily Graphic! with an article by W R Calvert: "The Potter of St. Ives; Englishman who sells to Japan", referring to BL's exhibition at the Cotswold Gallery. 13739
CUTTING from the Observer with a review (entitled "Art and Artists") of the Royal Academy's winter exhibition by P.G. Konody. Works by BL, W. Howson Taylor (Ruskin Pottery), W. Staite Murray, Arthur Gaskin, Paul Cooper and L. Colarossi, are mentioned. 13740 1923 Jan 27 CUTTING from Nation, with a review of the [Royal Academy] exhibition, by Charles Marriott, with works by BL, Ernest W. Gimson, W.G. Simmonds, Ethel Mairet, Macdonald Gill, etc.
13741 1923 Jan
CUTTING from Architectural Review with a brief reference to BL's Cotswold Gallery exhibition. 13742 1923 Aug 25 CUTTING from The Weekly Westminster Gazette. with a review of The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art. 1923 (ed. Geoffrey Holme) BL, Ernest Gimson and Peter Waals, are all mentioned.
13743 1923 Sept 22 CUTTING from Nation, with a review by "R.H.W." of the 2nd exhibition of the British Institute of Industrial Art, held at the V & A Museum. Honourable mention is made of exhibits by BL, WS Murray, and RF Wells; textiles and furniture by Edward Gardiner, EW
-306- Crimson, etc, are mentioned. 13744 1923 Sept CUTTING from an unnamed paper concerning the current [industrial art] exhibition at the V & A Museum. Pottery by BL, RF Wells, Gwendolen Parnell, Charles Vyse, Stella Crofts, etc, receives mention.
13745-13746 1923 Dec 28 LETTER published in The St. Ives Times by BL, concerning "A Cornish Contribution to the Japanese [Earthquake] Disaster Fund". 2 copies.
13747 1925 post-July 25 LETTER published in The Western Echo by BL, Captain of Lelant Cricket Club, concerning a disputed umpire's decision in a match versus St. Ives on 20 June, and following previous correspondence in that newspaper's columns.
13748 1930 Dec 20 CUTTING from the Spectator , referring to an exhibition at the Wertheim Gallery, with pottery by BL.
13749 1931 Sept 4 CUTTING from the Times Literary Supplement, being a review of Dora Billington's The Art of the Potter (O.U.P.), and referring to BL and Wm. Stake Murray.
13750-13754 1933
CUTTINGS sent to BL by Yanagi: from Nichi. Tokyo, 27 Nov 1933 (with illus. of BL), from Japan Times. 28 Nov 1933 (in English, re exhibition at the Kyukyo-do Art Galleries, Ginza); from Yomiuri. 2 Dec 1933 (article by Tomimoto); from Miyako, 3 Dec 1933 (with illus); from Yomiuri, 4 Dec 1933 (article by Tomimoto). All in Japanese except excerpt from Japan Times. 13755
CUTTING from the Western Morning News referring to a BL exhibition at the Brygos Gallery, New Bond Street. 13756
1937 June 26 -307- CUTTING from the Western Weekly News, referring to the Paris Exhibition, and to BL's exhibit therein. Other UK artists are named as HS Williamson, Frank Newbold, J Dixon-Scott, Dartington Hall Ltd., Michael Cardew, JM Bull, EV Spiller, etc. 13757 [1945?] March 15 CUTTING from an unnamed newspaper, with a letter from Barney Stevens, of Barnaloft, St. Ives, replying to a criticism by Manning-Sanders of Alfred Wallis by Sven Berlin; the said reviewer should "Cut the cackle and give the author due credit"!
13758-13759 1947 June CUTTING from The New English Weekly (editor: Philip Mairet), with part of a published letter by Oswald Moor on the Civil Service and incorporating a jibe at "tea ceremonies" in medieval Japan. Also present is BL's reply, in ms. addressed to the editor, protesting at this juxtaposition.
13760 1953 Oct 13 CUTTING (paper unknown) with a memoir of BL's early days in Japan, by Aizu Yaichi. A ms. note by BL refers to himself and to Kyoshi, 3rd son of Lafcadio Hearn. Japanese. [9/12].
13761 1954 April 14 CUTTING from Yukau Fukunichi evening paper: BL in a pottery village at Onda. Japanese. [9/2].
13762-13765 1961 Oct 6 to 1962 Jan 13 "ARTICLES (partly on BL) by the Japanese Financial News" - this heading in BL's hand, over an article entitled "Seihin - No - Seishin" in ms. Aesthetic taste and the cult of the artist; the precious interpretation of the words "taste" and "beauty"; Braque's definition of the artist as craftsman; the "— abusive and arbitrary use of — master-words of Japanese aesthetic emotion: "Shibui", Yugen", "sabi", "mono-no-aware" - in conexion with Arrangements, where the artificial was vying with the emphatic. When I think of possible interpretations of these words, there comes immediately to my mind the reflexions of the English potter, Bernard LEACH [sic], who is well- -308- known in Japan. Speaking about the products of the Craftsmen, Leach says that they are based upon three elements: their anonymous character, their abundance and the hard and continuous work of the craftsman. "But - concludes Leach - the Craftsmen have no individual conception of the value and the quality of their works1"1. The "lamented YANAGI. Soetsu" [sie] concurs - the best examples of his "Realm of Beauty" will be found among the Japanese potter-craftsmen of Koishiwara, Onda, Mashiko and Tachikui, and will bear the names Ichino, Shimizu and Ogami. In the second artricle [all of which are from the Nippon Keizai Shimbun]. autumn has come with its "Dead leaves — piling up by the scopeful" [sic] and its "—migratory birds, whirling around the secret and melancholy marshes"; also has appeared "— The English potter, Bernard LEACH [sic], whose neatly rough features remind one of those of far-away CORNWALL [sic], where he works"! A brief biographical account of BL's life follows, culminating in his publication of "THE ART OF THE POTTER" [sie] (most probably A Potters Book^> which "provoked the ire of some "masters". On the other hand, the book is at the origin of numerous and ardent vocations, through the world, for the beautiful work with clay and Fire". The works of Claude Laloux, Maurice Crignon (who, with others, knowing no English, "deciphered" Leach's book), and the Pierlots of Ratigny, are mentioned, as is a joint Leach-Hamada exhibition. The part played by the Japanese press in fostering cultural projects - a phenomenon peculiarly Japanese - is referred to; this is a symbol of the aim of "Culture for the masses". However, "—some Aesthetes are too prone to demand a "chosen" surroundings for all"artistic" presentations", thereby alienating "— a large portion of the public", who will hesitate to enter a musuem "—where it will think itself ridiculous, or ridiculized - for mere sartorial reasons, for instance". So, therefore, "Hail, indeed, the Exhibitions in the Department Stores"; indeed, only the other day, the writer "— was forced — to work my way through a great throng of small-budgeted [sic] customers, hunting the Bargain Sales Section"! A charming conclusion to this article: "My friends, LEACH and HAMADA [sie], did rejoice with me in the thought that the man in his sandals and working-clothes, or the housewife, with her baby tied upon her back - both of them could, after buying warm -309- underwear, warm their hearts and their minds, a few feet away, in the "Realm of Beauty" —". The third article recounts how, in the aftermath of the typhoons of Sept 1959 - particularly that "dreaded name of the "Ise-wan Typhoo" - the one which left in its wake, thousands of dead. Orchestred [sic] by roaring winds and beating rains, souvenirs swelled in me — this one, for instance": in the following Feb (1960), the writer and some students were engaged on salvage work in that ravaged countryside around Nagoya; all was desolation - "— miles of paddy-fields, whose rotten stems were glued with the earth mixed with sea-mud —. A grey-brown monotonous desert"; 2 tiny wooden shacks alone had survived, and in one "— lived a couple with their five children, all of them having miraculously survived the disaster. We were invited in for tea. We knelt close together on the few mats, while the man, a humble sea-weeds gatherer, was pulling out of a plain wooden box all what was necessary to peform the "Cha-no-yu". Full of emotion, we watched in silence this man, in frayed clothes, prepare Tea with the precise movements of his tanned and calloused hands. I have sworn to myself, ever since, that when one would talk to me about Japanese culture, or the "Art of Tea", I would always remember the poor shack of the sea-weeds gatherer in TOBISHIMA - mura" [sic]. The final item is a letter, H. Hauchecome (?) -the writer of these copy articles - to "My dear friend", presumably BL, dated 13 Jan 1962; "Rummaging through the French original scripts" [of these articles?], he has discovered references to Leach in 3 of them; these he encloses, together with the above-recited poignant episode following the typhoon of the Bay of Ise; refers to A Potter in Japan; a reference to the giving of paintings between amateurs and professionals • "Presents are either return for something received, or they may be given to put you under an obligation — [a quotation from BL's book]. May I make myself bold enough to ask you to inscribe anything you want on the accompanying "shikishi"? May I also suggest that we meet at breakfast - sometimes around nine?" 4 items. 13766 1962 CUTTING from the Japan Times with an article by Jan 10 Daisetz T. Suzuki, headed "Reply to Koestler on Zen", the whole reprinted from Encounter of Oct 1961. Printed; illus.
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-311- b. General "BYE-LAWS made by the Rural District Council of West Penwith —", Cornwall. Printed; 12pp. 13782 1915-16
NOTES, in the hand of Dr. Alfred Westharp, Peking, for a lecture or series of lectures, under 10 headings. 13783-13786 n.d.
[1915-16?] COPY SKETCHES of plates and chargers by Tomimoto Kenkichi; some duplicates. 1 bundle of 4; xerox. 13787-13801 1916-19
PAPERS, letters, receipts, circulars, etc, concerning the Chicago Society of Etchers, including letters from Bertha E. Jaques, Secretary, to BL. The letters concern her gratification at numbering BL among her members; much about Helen Hyde (formerly in Japan); the Society's exhibitions; BL's etchings have duly arrived; her appreciation of them ("Your work has far more of the painter in it than the etcher"); Tagore's imminent return "here"; later, sales not very good -does he want the etchings returned or retained?; much war talk. (4 letters). Two circulars are for 9 Aug 1916 and the annual bulletin for 1918, as is a schedule of rules (annotated and endorsed by BL with a list of etchings sent from Peking in Oct 1916, with prices realised) for active members of the Society. Included also are a cutting (13 Feb 1917) from an unnamed newspaper, headed: "Our Chicago Etchers", describing the Society's current exhibition, with BL named among the exhibitors; receipts for BL's subscription to the Society (4); and receipts "for the amount of a Foreign Money Order" (Japanese and English) (3). 15 items in all. 13802 1919 July-Aug ADDRESS by Alec Miller: "The Craftsman - His Education and His Place in Industry", given at the "New Deals in Education" Conference, in the Examination Schools, Cambridge. Printed.
13803-13804 c. 1919?
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