The Cotman Collection | 20

Cotmania. Vol. II. 1927-8

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/2
Page: 21 recto


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    Thomas Rowlandson exhibition / Cotswold Gallery Catalogue December 1927 / Messrs. Arthur Tooth's Galleries / Art in the 19th Century - lecture course King's College London / Watercolours at the Victoria and Albert Museum

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    Date: Dec 1927

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    <The Times 1.12.'27>
    THOMAS ROWLANDSON
    In connexion with the centenary of Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) there has been arranged in Room XXIX, at the Tate Gallery an exhibition of drawings by the artist, together with examples of other British draughtsmen working between 1750 and 1850, such as J.R. Cozens , Girtin, Cotman, and Cox. The general idea - apart from the special celebration of Rowlandson - is to make this room a connecting link in time between Room XXX., which contains the collection of Turner's "Liber Studiorum" and Room XXVIII., where contemporary drawings are hung.

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    <Cotswold Gallery Catalogue Dec: 1927>
    JOHN SELL COTMAN (1782- 1842)
    Plates from Cotman's 'Liber Studiorum'
    44 VIEW OF CLIFTON (Popham, 297).
    7⅞ x 6⅞ in. Soft-ground Etching. £2 2s.
    45 TWICKENHAM (P. 298).
    7 x 11⅞ in. Soft-ground Etching. £3 3s.
    46 ON THE YARE (P. 299).
    6 x 7⅞ in. Soft-ground Etching. £2 2s.
    47 MILLBANK ON THE THAMES (P. 303).
    6½ x 9⅞ in. Soft-ground Etching. Fine impression. £4 4s.
    48 THE DEVIL'S BRIDGE, CARDIGANSHIRE (P. 305)
    7⅜ x 5 in. Soft-ground etching. £2 2s.
    49 CADER IDRIS (P. 309).
    5 x 6⅞ in. Soft-ground etching. £3 3s.

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    <Sunday Times 4 Dec '27>
    Messrs. Arthur Tooth's galleries. With the exception of two panels of drawings by the late Mark Fisher and H. B. Brabazon, all the exhibits are by living artists, and the preliminary contributions on the entrance wall by Mr. Muirhead Bone, and the two fine Scottish landscapes (32, 34) by Sir D. Y. Cameron in the main gallery, are enough in themselves to prove that the great tradition of British watercolour stands as high to-day as ever it did in the past.
    Yet perhaps the best thing in the collection is Mr. Lamorna Birch's "Treen Village" (12), a compact design of admirably solid cottages, which really rivals a Cotman in the substantiality of its structure and in the suave dignity of its colour. Two sunset effects by Sir George Clausen and Mr. Harry Morley's "From the Steps of St. Peter's " (4) are other contributions of note.

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    {handwritten course list}
    Art in the 19th Century
    A course of lectures given at King's College, London by Professor Percy Dearmer. 1927.
    (1) Oct 11. English Landscape: Crome, Turner, Constable, Cotman.
    (2) ---- 18. France, Classic & Romantic: after L. David, Ingres, Delacroix.
    (3) ---- 25. Corot & the Barbizon School: Rousseau, Millet, Daubigny.
    (4) Nov 1. Pre-Raphaelitians: Maddox-Brown, Rossetti, Millais, Holman-Hunt.
    (5) Nov 8. The Fight with Industrialism: Ruskin, William Morris.
    (6) Nov 15. Academism.
    (7) Nov 22. The Escape from Academism. Daumier, Corbet [sic], Manet, Degas.
    (8) Nov 29. Impressionism: Camille Pissaro, Whistler, Sisley, Monet, Seurat.
    (9) Dec 6. The Victors of To-day. Cezanne, Renoir, Gaugin [sic], Van Gogh.

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    The publication of a revised edition of the Catalogue of Water-Colour Paintings by British Artists and Foreigners Working in Great Britain on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum may be taken as an occasion for reminding people of these galleries' existence. The majority of those who drop in for an hour at South Kensington of a winter's evening never reach the rooms devoted to paintings. The water-colour galleries are at present being redecorated. But when they are reopened they will again be the most delightful exhibition in London. Water-colour has occupied many of the finest English artists, who are, consequently, unknown at the National Gallery. Besides the famous figures of J. R. Cozens, Cotman and Girtin, there are such remarkable artists as J. W. Abbott and Francis Towne. Those who relish the Picturesque will find in these rooms a wonderful collection of Picturesque art, from that of the Sandbys, the Maltons and the rest of the incredibly skilful eighteenth century water-colourists, to the great pictures of Constable and de Wint.
    <Country LIfe - 3 Dec '27>

Thomas Rowlandson exhibition / Cotswold Gallery Catalogue December 1927 / Messrs. Arthur Tooth's Galleries / Art in the 19th Century - lecture course King's College London / Watercolours at the Victoria and Albert Museum