Pencil drawing of seven circular and triangular abstract forms. Circa 1970.

Pencil drawing of seven circular triangular abstract forms by Trevor Bell. On cream cartridge paper headed Spofforth House, Spofforth, Yorkshie, 187x230mm. Thumbed and marked, horizontal creasing. On the reverse is an A.L.S. from Sara(h) Gilchrist to Trevor Bell, regarding the changes in arrangements for dates of exhibitions for the Gregory Fellows exhibition and the Yorkshire Artists exhibition. Sarah Gilchrist was a prominent figure in the northern English art scene who founded the influential Queen Square Gallery in Leeds in 1964.The gallery was established in 1964 by Sara(h) Gilchrist as Queen Square Gallery; it was renamed in 1968 after its location in central Leeds. Her business flourished, and she relocated to nearby Park Square, renaming her gallery accordingly. She retired in 1978, though the gallery continued for a few more years under different ownership. The artists mainly contemporary in the third quarter of the 20th century included Eric Atkinson, Albert Irvin, Richard James, Louis James, Sonia Lawson, Harry Thubron and Gregory Fellowship winners Kenneth Armitage, Trevor Bell, Reg Butler, Hubert Dalwood, AIan Davie, Terry Frost and Austin Wright. Ahead of her time, she even exhibited groups of contemporary Russian artists twenty-five years before it became fashionable to do so.…