Artists Aid China Exhibition, London, 1943

Posted: December 4th, 2020 | No Comments »

On March 31 1943 the Artists Aid China Exhibition opened in a badly bombed London’s . It was one of the largest and most interesting displays of Chinese art in London during the war years and, of course, all aimed at raising money to support China’s war effort against Japan.

The exhibiton was held at Hertford House on Manchester Square and included 700 works of art, objets d’art, sculpture and paintings including several Chiang Yee watercolours. Chiang also gave a talk about the works in the exhibiton on the BBC. There were some donations from private collections including a rose quartz figurine (below) lent by Queen Mary (as in Mary of Teck and then Queen following the accession of her husband King George V), and a carved jade bowl from Edwina Mountbatten.

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