ARLINGTON GALLERY LONDON
The Arlington Gallery was owned and managed by Lucy Winifred MacDonald (12 April 1872-4 January 1951), the wife of Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald (12 July 1861-11 August 1956), and opened at 22 Old Bond Street in London's West End in June 1923 with an exhibition of the works of Alfred Priest (12 December 1810–9 December 1850). Lucy Winifred MacDonald, née Cary, was originally a music teacher, she married at Hammersmith on 27 Oct 1898, Scottish watercolourist William Alister Macdonald who, after serving in the Army Service Supply Department during the First World War, in 1923 he sailed for New Zealand, stopping on his way at Tahiti which he liked so much he remained until 1939. Lucy was a member and from 1918, secretary of Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers and in 1921 an artist living on her own account with her uncle at 6 Penywern Road, Earl's Court and had her studio at Studio, 283 Fulham Road, S.W. 10. The gallery specialised in lesser-known artists who found difficulty in getting shows at the bigger galleries. Regular exhibitors included those of the Hampstead Society of Artists and the Royal Society of Miniature Painters Sculptors and Gravers who showed most years from the mid-1920s until the Gallery's closure. They also exhibited artists associated with textiles, glass, jewellery, tapestry and metalwork. Following bomb damage during the Second World War, the gallery closed in 1941, 22 Old Bond Street are now offices. Suffolk artists who works were exhibited at the Arlington Gallery include Harry Fidler, John Kenneth Green, Margaret E Marshall and Owen Blair Reynolds.