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Creator:
Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Title:
Design for Deer Hunting Mural in the Cabaret Theatre Club
Date:
1912
Materials & Techniques:
Oil and chalk on paper
Dimensions:
11 x 24 inches (27.9 x 61 cm)
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1985.3.1
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Link to Frame:
B1985.3.1FR
Subject Terms:
abstract art | deer | hills | horses (animals) | hunting | landscape | men | sea | ships | sky | sporting art | sun
Access:
Not on view
Link:
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:1254
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London’s first nightclub, the Cabaret Theatre Club, opened on June 26, 1912. Its central room, known as the Cave of the Golden Calf, was decorated by a group of avant-garde artists on the theme of bacchic revelry. Jacob Epstein carved and painted columns like totem poles; Wyndham Lewis painted a vorticist drop curtain; Eric Gill carved and gilded a calf by the entrance; and Charles Ginner painted large scenes of tiger hunting, for which this is one of the preliminary designs. The club’s paradoxical manifesto stated, “We want surroundings, which after the reality of daily life, reveal the reality of the unreal.” Spencer Gore masterminded the overall artistic scheme and contributed a mural on canvas whose jagged lines, hot colors, and large scale dominated the room. Hunters rode barebacked horses in pursuit of deer grazing on the hills below. The club lasted only two years before going bankrupt, and Gore’s original canvas has been lost since then.

Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016

Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Belvedere Museum, 2020-02-14 - 2020-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art (Barbican Art Gallery, 2019-10-04 - 2020-01-19) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Modernism in Britain (Barbican Art Gallery, 1997-02-20 - 1997-05-26) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Royal Academy of Arts (Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, 1987-05-08 - 1987-08-09) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Royal Academy of Arts (Royal Academy of Arts, 1987-01-15 - 1987-04-05) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]

Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977-1986 : Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1986, p. 14, no. 23, N590.2 .A7 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 106-107, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Florence Ostende, Into the Night : Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art, Prestel, Munich and London, p. 97, N6486 .I585 2019 (LC) Oversize [ORBIS]

Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]

Anna Gruetzner Robins, Modern art in Britain, 1910-1914, Merrell Holberton, London, 1997, pp. 96, 101, 172, cat. no. 97, ND486 R62 1997 (YCBA) [YCBA]

Duncan Robinson, Acquisitions : The First Decade 1977 - 1986, , Burlington Magazine, vol. 128, October 1986, p. 14, no. 23, N1 .B87 128:3 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]


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