Dear Bards,

 

Good to see you and share Mass with you this afternoon. Sorry I couldn’t stay longer.

 

Can anyone shed light on the enquiry below, please? It’s from our librarian at the Blackfriars in Oxford.

 

God bless,

 

Dominic OP

 

 

The Regent suggested I get in touch. We have discovered a single issue of something called 'Art Notes' published by the St. Michael's Workshop (quondam Oxford) and Church Artists' Agency (in Pimlico) dated 1945. It's a rather good quality piece covering a variety of liturgical and other areas. Although it is vol. IX, no. 3, and therefore a publication of some duration, we can't find any record of it even at the British Library or the National Catholic Library. Archbishop Downey was patron so the group presumably was respectable in institutional terms.The only reference to the Church Artists' Agency on the internet and the European Libraries Catalogue is to an exhibition of sculpture held at the National Gallery that same year. There is also one other issue held in an archive at Liverpool Hope. It's as if there's been a Stalinist coup and all memory has been erased! Do either of you know anything about the publication or have a suggestion about where we might find more information?


Regards,

Michael

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Michael Black
Librarian & Research Fellow
Blackfriars Hall
Oxford