BONE (Sir Muirhead, 1876-1953, Water-colour Painter & Etcher, War Artist)

Autograph Letter Signed to Charles REILLY (1874-1948, Head of the Liverpool School of Architecture) thanking him for "sending me the Cripps Petition. Certainly I will sign it and I shall ask Gavin what he thinks about it. But not easy for usto get more signatures - however I'll see about it. I have not been back to Brightonsince I saw you ... I think I can finishe that drawing of the front without goig back ... ... Lutyens looked fine at the RA banquet and I liked very much his air of courtesy and hospitality without pompousness. From where I was, unfortunately, he was not very audible so ... I only mastered his speech next morning (but don't tell him this!). I think a school of traditional architecture is much needed in London when I see the full horror of that horrible new side of Berkeley Square. There are lots of good things to pick out in the RA - the total effect is a jumble but I don't see how you can avoid that, especially in these days. Stephen I'm glad to say sold his big picture on Private View day. I haven't forgotten the kind promise of yourself and your friend to buy drawings for my 'Casals Fund' ..." with a postscript that he has "a very elaborate drawing of John Brown's Shipyard Clydebank with the 'Queen Elizabeth' building at the R.A.", 2 sides 4to., with original autograph envelope, Grayflete, Ferry Hinksey, Oxford, 1st May

In early 1939 Stafford Cripps (1869-1952, Politician) was expelled from the Labour Party for his advocacy of a Popular Front with the Communist Party, the Independent Labour Party, the Liberal Party and anti-appeasement Conservatives. Plainly the Bones agreed with his views.
Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944, Architect). The architectural historian Gavin Stamp described him as "surely the greatest British architect of the twentieth (or of any other) century"
Bone's son Stephen (1904-1958) was a painter writer and Broadcast and noted war artist.

Item Date:  1939

Stock No:  39194      £225

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