THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 5, 1940
THE HONG KONG WORKING ARTISTS'
were
GUILD
map as a centre of
or teaching. The expenses cannot | brilliant. Director, of Studies, at always be met out of members' sub. forefront of the knowledge and
tom of Weste Art, whom scriptions.
have bemagt The Guild is somewhat loosely or- | büt
ting of: ganised. We have a banking account, and whiten with Mr. Cyril Champkin ki Treasur- by a mathod er, and Mr. E. A. Cemernic as Honi: East, as taught in Enri Secretary. Subscriptions should be possible foundation for answers sent to the latter at 16 Block A, Art. Pupils taught in the Sumr
Cheques should be School have astonished by their rapid War has scattered the of made out to "The Hong Kong. Work- | progresk. · The Hong Kong Working Artists' No public display of this collection Kennedy Road.
Contributions students and, the classes arranged for Guild Ands itself in urgent need of was possible owing to the fall funds at the moment when the work Canton. It has toured Europe, being ing Artists' Guild.”
other places will be acknowledged. In the Press the winter season. In order to keep executive which our Director with us with the deplet- of over four years is bearing good shown in Paris and
first where it has received a good deal of We have a small fruit. I am making this, our
at attention and has had as much success changes for the various needs of oured clientele the Guild has in faith shows, special jobs, classes, given free use of all our resources.--- public appeal for financial ald,
Kote-
as could be expected when tracked work,
Luis Chan, as Vice studio, accomodation and attendance, the suggestion of Sir Robert
In October and so on. wall.
by the menace of war.
of Chinese and for this we have had to draw on our
We have also Ex Two and a half years ago Sir An- it found refuge in Amsterdam, whence President undertakes everything re-publicity, exhibitions, and so on; and drew Caldecott, who had taken great it was to be transferred to London. quiring knowledge
Chinese artists. I myself am styled slender resources. paid on
President. As all management is perts to help us in future organisa- interest in the Guild as a centre of Insurance has had to be
Ιπ respect of relating the artists, and
go direct to the tion. fellowship between
some of these pictures and on the
A few work of the Guild.
Items Fine Arts to life and the other Arts; especially of reciprocity between Eas-studio where we hold valuable mo- unpaid all monies
activities will fully we have among our members at least in stage tern and Western Art, expressed the dern pictures and some genuine an-
assistance regarding our
one Russian Artist skilled clent ones deposited for hope in his farewell address to the
not given. Such expenses can only be substantiate our claim to be a useful Colony that the Guild should
Art fellowship. pared to assist productions gratis. An be allowed to die for want of sup-regarded as frozen assets at present. factor in keeping Hong Kong on the setting and decoration, who is pre-
about a lean hot By and large we have
have in- important development of Guild work Health port. At that time the
when months
ahead,
there quarter of the sum originally given During 1938 and 1939 we
to expulsion from posters. At the request of the Medi- would be few to use the co-operative to us tied up by the war in Europe, troduced several-world-famous artists, is the production of Public
and hitherto unknown cal Authorities six anti-cholera pos- studio, then in its second year; and and in consequence of this and the bere owing
co-operatively designed, and position of the use of our studio de- Europe a veritable exodus of workers
taking place. Sir tailed below we are for the moment in the Far East,-through exhibitions | ters were supporters was
and sales of their works which have and now speak from the walls and Robert nobly sponsored contributions almost at the end of our resources.
of
We cannot read nor take in verbal war. On our laying the position before aroused interest in the more modern | hoardings of Hong Kong to those who from a group of twenty, several
intimated developments of pictorial Art. whom were members of the Legisla- | Sir Robert Kotewall he
set on T. B., a task involving even tive Council, to enable us to make after consultation with others of the have rescued from oblivion two note-ning. The Guild is now preparing a consultation with and worthy Chinese artists of genius re- himself that he group, But for this timely aid good.
collaboration in pre- other donors were satisfied with the cently dead, both by exhibition here more team work, should certainly have perished,
the special kind of broke war
which out report of our work,, and despite the and by sending a selection of their experts, and the Sino-Japanese
artistic skill required for Jack Chen. almost immediately afterwards, and heavy calls upon them at the pre-work to Europe and U.S.A. via Mr. sentment by
the
held a second Chinese knowledge of detail is very At the studio we revolutionised
prospects and sent time some were willing to con-
by a well-known important. Guild. Whereas tribute again to our funds; but they the of
it
realised 18 character
When exhibi- considered that the Guild calls for series of lessons
activities originally we had arranged
these
alive and tions to make known to the public, much wider interest and support than teacher in Chinese Art for European
from any small | students.
We cannot at the moment expect, kept and to market, the work of indivi- that to be obtained dual artists, our exhibitions took on group of friends. If I would make a the character of charitles, being large-personal appeal I might be assured of as we had hoped, to get endowment on a capital sum of about £60 sterling immediate response from the group for the foundation of an Internation- for over two and a half years we may Aal School of Art, a permanent Art surely hope that Hong Kong will help to head the list of contributions.
us to do even more for the present one for current ex-
glory of the few months before the war in Europe | Gallery, and began Mrs. L. Dunbar expressed the | hibitions, which are some of our lar- distresses and future
Hong-ger projects. We are however, glad to Colony on a sum at least four times a that amount which would guarantee belief that many people in
to contribute see that it is proposed to erect
Hall, which we our security for a long time to come. kong would be glad two dollars or so a month to enable temporary Town
luxuries, but as we were reminded in from suffering us to begin a definite school of Art, hope may help to solve some of our We can all at this time cut down our
own suggestion by trouble about exhibitions.
recent broadcast
Education and backed her
are not generously subscribing for one year on this scale. The idea did not im- mediately catch on, and the onset of war destroyed all such schemes, and our work. threatened to extinguish However though with many anxieties we still live, and our objectives and We opportunities are multiplying. only need some backing to continue. Accordingly the Guild is opening two funds, to which we confidently pect support:—
we
as
to
ly or in part in aid of Red Cross or other help for war victims, or assist artists who were driven here in numbers from all over China by
We raised thus the war.
many hundreds of dollars, so that had we
for ourselves been working
even with the modest ten per cent charged on sales effected through the Guild, and contributions from those using the studio, we could have keep go- ing and been enabled to extend our scope, instead of which we had draw on our central fund month month for deficit in working penses.
our
to by
CX-
ex-
(1) A Donation Fund, such as Sir Robert-sponsored before, which does not commit the donor to any repeti- tion of the gift;
(2) A Subscription Fund of small sums, from two dollars upwards, pre- ferably to be paid quarterly or half- yearly in advance.
1938 Through the whole of
we gave studio hospitality to many re- schools, and fugee artists and even
usual work of visiting and resident artists meeting and working together, sharing models and so on continued to grow somewhat Atfully. In the Autumn we formed the natural collecting centre for the Con- collection of Representative temporary Art in China which Jack Chen wished to take as return Goodwill Exhibition for the Exhibi- tion of Graphic Art for the benefit of Chinese Army Medical Relief he had brought from Europe and U.S.A.
Such support would form a guaran- In the Interior he could only collect war work which; though most strik-tee of the rent and running expen- Ing and moving. by no means showed ses of our co-operative studio, which recent is the heart of our activities, and for the normal development of Art in the Orient. We were able to gather paintings from a number artists representative of all
a
A start with the New Year for would be very those subscriptions enheartening.
the use of which
we regulate our the means of of charges according to China. those who make isa of it for work
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