Storran Gallery

A 1937 Storran Gallery receipt

The Storran Gallery was a fashionable avant-garde art gallery in London in the 1930s. In 1937 it was run by the prominent art critic Eardley Knollys (a friend of Picasso)[1] with Ala Storey and the artist Frank Combes. The gallery was at 106 Brompton Road London SW3 (just opposite Harrods) but moved to Fitzroy Street and then 316 Euston Road.

An unusual exhibition at the gallery in 1938 was ‘‘The Jones Exhibition’’. The artists Graham Bell and Tom Harrisson[2] curated an exhibition of London scenes by British painters. As a way of making it “democratic”, they typed letters to invite over 800 London-based families with the widely held name Jones.[3]

Pictures exhibited at the Storran Gallery in the late 1930s included those by Picasso, Modigliani,[4] Dufy, Anthony Devas, Claude Rogers, Victor Pasmore, Rupert Shephard,[5] Graham Bell, William Coldstream,[6] Ivon Hitchens, Jean Varda,[3] Derek Sayer,[7] Lynton Lamb,[7] Joan Souter-Robinson,[8] Ivy Langton,[9] and Derek Latymer-Sayer.[10] A number of these artists were members of the Euston Road School.

References

  1. ↑ "Cracking down on art fraud | Art and design | The Guardian". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  2. ↑ Taylor, B.; Barber Institute of Fine Arts (1999). Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001. Manchester University Press. p. 276. ISBN 9780719054532. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive". sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  4. ↑ "'The Little Peasant', Amedeo Modigliani | Tate". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  5. ↑ "National Portrait Gallery - Person - Rupert Shephard". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  6. ↑ http://www.victorpasmore.com/html/biography.html
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 http://www.whittingtonfineart.com/prddl000.html
  8. ↑ "Obituaries Joan Souter-Robertson - People - News - The Independent". independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  9. ↑ "Ivy Langton Artist". the-cleeve.co.uk. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
  10. ↑ "Bear Alley: Derek Latymer-Sayer (Derrick Latimer Sayer)". bearalley.blogspot.com. Retrieved 2015-01-09.