'Greetings From Wembley' Art Exhibit
The Art Garage will feature this art time capsule featuring 1937 artwork of the East Lane Senior School in Wembley, England.
If you are a fan of Downton Abbey, you will remember that Lady Crawley and her husband, Matthew, were fortunate to have a child (baby George) by the end of season 3 of Downton Abbey. Now imagine this: fast forward to 1937. Baby George has now grown to a child of 13 and attends The East Lane Senior School in Wembley, England. There, his teachers have put together an art exhibit created by all the students (ages 10-14). They send the collection to a school in America as part of a pre-war cultural exchange, the Mary C. Williams School in Delaware. The work is exhibited to the community there, where it receives rave reviews, and even makes the local newspaper! Afterward, it is packed away in a wooden crate for storage and is forgotten. Nearly …