Cotmania. Vol. IV. 1929-30
Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/4
Page: 28 verso
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Description
A list of the pictures belonging to 'the late Miss Geldart' at auction
Kitson's encounter with a painting in the corridor of Leeds University Library
Extracts from speeches boasting about NorwichList of paintings sold at auction, including medium, title, artist, who purchased, and for how much
An account of a painting donated to Leeds Uni. by Michael Sadler
Extracts from speeches, praising Norwich and the Norwich School of PaintersDate:
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Transcription
In April last the late Miss Geldart's pictures were sold by auction in Norwich. among them:
The Pinman - J. Geldart. 2/6
Watercolours{ Valley Scene - J. S. Cotman. Boswell 300 g[uinea]s. (For Leggatt Bros. for a client.)
{Galliot in a Gale - J. S. Cotman. Lewy 215 gs for P. S. Turner (?)
{On the Dutch Coast - J. S Cotman. 135 gsPencil & chalk { Rivers + Mountains - J. S. Cotman. 5 1/2 gs. Thomson.
{ditto ditto - J. S. Cotman. 7 1/2 gs. Nightingale .
Shepherd etc. Pencil. Gainsborough. 5 gs
View of Snowdon. (w.c.) 1822. J. Varley - very good, I'm told.
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June 24. Saw in the Corridor at Leeds University a small upright drawing, earlyish, (?1808) of a Castle to the right, clouds & distance to left. pencil. clouds & distance blue neutral tint. Castle cool sepia, foreground warm sepia. Given by Sir M. Sadler to Leeds University.
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Extract from a radio speech on Norwich, by The L'd Mayor of Norwich.
Dr G. Stevens Pope
27-10.1925.
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Lovers of art will come for pictures of the Norwich school of Painters, and foremost those of Crome, John Sell Cotman, and Stark. Each Artist, a rich jewel in the city's crown, is well represented in the Castle Picture Gallery, though the many-sided genius of Cotman can only be studied in its full richness in the glorious nest of John Sells at Mr. Russell Colman's treasure house at Crown Point, Norwich.Extract from a speech by A. M. Samuel M. P. - (on receiving the hon: freedom of Norwich) 18.10-1928.
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What other city of England has its own School of Painting? Who, if you except Turner, reigns supreme in that most typical English art, painting in water colour? Why, John Sell Cotman. And he, moreover, was one of the first to appreciate and study the glories of the architectural antiquities of Norfolk. Who could paint trees and sky like John Crome? But on the other hand, where can be seen such trees and sky as in and around Norwich? A citizen of Norwich may well be a proud man.
