Storran Gallery

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 Story and the artist Frank Coombs (1906-1941). The gallery was at 106 Brompton Road London SW3 (just opposite Harrods) but moved to Fitzroy Street and then 316 Euston Road.

A 1937 Storran Gallery receipt for Modigliani, Hitchens and Picasso

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, Clare Crossley,[6][7] William Coldstream, Ivon Hitchens, Jean Varda,[3] Derek Sayer, Lynton Lamb, Joan Souter-Robinson,[8] Ivy Langton,[9] and Derek Latymer-Sayer.[10] A number of these artists were members of the Euston Road School.

The sculptor Willi Soukop had his first one-man show at the Storran Gallery in 1938. [11]

References
  1. Wade, Alex (24 May 2005). "Cracking down on art fraud | Art and design | The Guardian". guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  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 9 January 2015.
  3. "University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive". sussex.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  4. "'The Little Peasant', Amedeo Modigliani | Tate". tate.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  5. "National Portrait Gallery - Person - Rupert Shephard". npg.org.uk. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  6. "Going Out to Goings-On". The Bystander. 6 November 1935. p. 10. Retrieved 9 July 2021.
  7. Knollys, Eardley (1989). "The Storran Gallery". The Burlington Magazine. 131 (1032): 203–207. ISSN 0007-6287. JSTOR 883668.
  8. Partridge, Frances (23 October 2011). "Obituaries Joan Souter-Robertson - People - News - The Independent". independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 25 May 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  9. "Ivy Langton Artist". the-cleeve.co.uk. Archived from the original on 22 July 2011. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  10. "Bear Alley: Derek Latymer-Sayer (Derrick Latimer Sayer)". bearalley.blogspot.com. 18 November 2006. Retrieved 9 January 2015.
  11. "Willi Soukop Biography - Saunders Fine Art".

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