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Outside London
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Madras cotton tree, 24 x 36 in., by Brenda
Danischewsky at Ashgate, Wagon Yard, Downing
Street, Farnham, Surrey, from January 9 to
February 1. This is the artist's first one-man
exhibition of fabric collages. (Price range: 20 gns-
80 gns.)
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Gentle edge 1967, perspex and aluminium, 66 x
48 x 12 in., by Anthony Benjamin, presented by
Winchester Contemporary Arts Society, at
Winchester School of Art from January 22 to
February 10. The exhibition consists of eight recent
perspex sculptures, four of which have not
previously been shown, and eight new paintings.
The large perspex pieces of sculpture were first
shown at the I.C.A. in 1966, and in November 1967
the Museum of Modern Art at Oxford held a
retrospective of Benjamin's paintings, drawings
and prints. The Museum of Contemporary Art in
Nagaaka, Japan, recently purchased a large
sculpture, Mantle for sky dweller 1. Anthony
Benjamin has been invited to show prints in the
next Crackow Biennale. (Price range: sculpture
£100-£750; paintings £100-£500.)
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Santal clans personified 1930, watercolour, 13 x 9
in., section of a scroll paining by Surendra and
Babulal Chitrakar of Rangz village, Rajmahal
subdivision, India, in a touring exhibition of Indian
miniatures and folk paintings organized by the Arts
Council, at Maidstone Museum and Art Gallery. A
Santal priest lolls on an elephant while below him a
Santal raja smoking a hookah sits with a trader who
appears to be conducting business with him. The
paintings, from the collection of Mildred and
W. G. Archer, will next be shown at the Arts Council
Gallery in Cambridge.
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Interior 1967, oil on canvas, by Bob Bourne at the
Penwith Society of Arts, Back Road West, St Ives,
Cornwall, until January 6. The exhibition includes
work by Hepworth, Leach and about thirty other
artists: paintings, sculpture, drawings and pottery.
(Prices from 10 gns.)
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Blue and green circles 1966, serigraph by Peter
Hedegaard at Peterloo, 33a Brown Street,
Manchester from January 8-27. The show consists
of original prints by Elizabeth Frink, Oliffe
Richmond, Jan de Witt, Philip Sutton, John Tobin,
David Koster, loan Mirea, Shmuel Shapiro and
others. (Price range: 5 gns-30 gns.)
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Spray-gun drawing 1965, by Bernard Cohen in an
Arts Council exhibition at Castle Museum, Norwich,
from January 13 until February 3. 'Drawing towards
painting 2' is successor to two earlier exhibitions
arranged in 1953 and 1962 by David Sylvester. Also
included are Andrews, Caulfield, Fry,
Hockney, Hoyland, Huxley, Jones, Riley, and
Stephenson. In February the exhibition will move to
Scarborough and then Glasgow. Bernard Cohen
was born in London, studied at South-West Essex,
St Martins and the Slade Schools of Art. He was
awarded a French Government Scholarship in 1954,
and the Boise travelling scholarship in 1956 and
spent two years in France, Spain and Italy. His
work is in the collections of the Tate; Museum of
Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Centre,
Minneapolis; etc.
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