Cotmania. Vol. X. 1934-5
Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: 23 Aug 1934-25 Sep 1935
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/10
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Description
The volume is composed of a mixture of press cuttings, ranging from the centenary of the Royal Institute of British Architect (RIBA) in 1934, to articles on arts news generally. There are catalogues of exhibitions including the 15th Annual Watercolour Exhibition in 1935, and a list of John Sell Cotman’s etchings from his Architectural Antiquities in Normandy series, for sale by art dealer F.R. Meatyard.
Articles on the RIBA discuss the growth and significance of architecture, with Cotman quoted in The Builder from a letter to his son following an early meeting of the Institute, ‘it was most remarkable to see how very different the character of the head of the Architect is from that of the Painter’.
The volume contains correspondence from Kitson’s connections with art galleries including Curator Martin Hardie at the V&A, along with correspondence from Kitson’s wider network. There are articles by Martin Hardie on the change in attitudes on framing a watercolour, and discussing watercolour techniques, stating Cotman would have seemed ‘modern’ to his contemporaries. Kitson refers to exhibitions during 1934-35 which displayed Cotman works, and throughout the volume Kitson references Cotman’s contemporaries, for example the sale of a John Crome painting ‘Durham’ formerly attributed to Cotman.
Dawson Turner press cutting and catalogue cutting / Visit to Tate Gallery and visit to Castle Museum
Page: 3 recto
Page: 5 verso
Page: 8 recto
Extract from an article on "An Australian water-colour Painter" John D. Moore in "Apollo" April 1934
Page: 9 recto
Press cutting from The Sketch on the Director of the National Art Gallery, Mr Kenneth Mckenzie Clark
Page: 12 recto
Page: 14 verso
Page: 16 recto
Page: 23 verso
Catalogue cutting (cont.) of Winchester Art Club's 15th Annual water-colour exhibition
Page: Vol. 10, p.31, recto
4 Newspaper articles about the Winchester Art Club's 15th Water Colour Exhibition.
Page: Vol. 4, p.31, verso
A sketch and (dismissive) assessment of the painting on the next page by Oppe
Page: Vol. 10, p. 33, recto
Page: Vol. 10, p. 34, recto
