Cotmania. Vol. I. 1926-7

EASTERN DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, MAY 2. 1927.
JOHN SELL COTMAN'S MASTERPIECE FOR NORWICH.
The work of John Sell Cotman, of Norwich School fame, is becoming increasingly valued by collectors and art critics, and the Norwich Art Gallery is to be enriched by the addition of a wonderful example of his method of painting in oils known as "The Silver Birches." This picture is a composition of sunshine and shade on foliage and rocks with Cotman's familiar blue distance but as a revelation of glowing light it is amazing. Formerly the property of the Rev. John Gunn, of Norwich, it has now passed into the possession of Mr. Percy Moore Turner, of the Independent Gallery, London, who has generously loaned the painting to the City of Norwich for two years. It will be exhibited with Cotman's two contemporary pictures, "The Baggage Waggon" and "The Mishap," already in the possession of the city through the generosity of the late Mr. J.J. Colman. On Wednesday afternoon, at 4:15, the Lord Mayor will formally place the picture on exhibition in the main Art Gallery of the Castle of art which has returned to Norwich after many years.