The Cotman Collection | 61

Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30

Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 21 recto, insert 1 verso 1


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    Letter to Kitson from Leonard Duke, congratulating Kitson on his article in the O W S journal, and giving an impromptu list of Duke's favourite watercolour artists

    Letter to Kitson from Leonard Duke, congratulating Kitson on his article in the O W S journal, and giving an impromptu list of Duke's favourite watercolour artists

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    affections of such crusted bachelors as myself.
    I hear that I failed to recognise your back in Meatyard's the other day. I would not readily have deprived myself of your front.
    Meaty has sold me two superb little watercolours by J. A. Atkinson. To my mind he is one of the few real English watercolourists, or rather drawers. Whom shall we take? In alphabetical order: - White Abbot, W. Alexander, Atkinson, Aylesford, Blake, Bonington, Boys (sometimes), Brabazon, Banbury, Calcott (sometimes), Callow (sometimes), Calvert, Cameron, Chambers, Chatelain, Chinnery, Clausen, Clennell (sometimes), the Cleveleys (occasionally), Collet, Constable, J.S.C., other Cotmans (sometimes) Cox (sometimes), both Cozens, Cristall (very rarely), Crome, Dayes, De Loutherbourg, De Wint (sometimes), Edridge (sometimes) -----

Letter to Kitson from Leonard Duke, congratulating  Kitson on his article in the O W S journal, and giving an impromptu list of Duke's favourite watercolour artists