Archive: SDK Sydney Decimus Kitson Archive
Date: 30 May 1931-26 Aug 1932
Reference Number: SDK/1/2/1/7
Description
Volume VII is dominated by Kitson’s diary notes on his visits to art galleries and collectors in connection with his researches on John Sell Cotman, between June 1931 and August 1932. Among these notes he intersperses newspaper cuttings and correspondence from Paul Oppé and others, with some mentions of sales of works by Cotman and his own views on architecture.
Extracts from the Glasgow Herald and the Antique Collector on Augustus Walker's exhibition
Page: 6 recto
Kitson's diary entries 22 December 1931-11 January 1932; review of book by Clutton-Brock
Page: 12 recto
Kitson's diary entry 2 February 1932; letter from Barnes concerning John Samuel Hayward
Page: 13 recto