{{short description|Former art gallery in London, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use British English|date=August 2015}} The '''Storran Gallery''' was a fashionable ''avant-garde'' art gallery in London in the 1930s. In 1937 it was run by the prominent art critic [[Eardley Knollys]] (a friend of [[Picasso]])<ref name="guardian">{{cite web|last=Wade|first=Alex|date=2005-05-24|title=Cracking down on art fraud | Art and design | The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/may/24/art.law|work=The Guardian|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> with [[Ala Story]] and the artist [[Frank Coombs (artist)|Frank Coombs]] (1906–1941). The gallery was at 106 [[Brompton Road]] London SW3 (just opposite [[Harrods]]) but moved to [[Fitzroy Street, London|Fitzroy Street]] and then 316 [[Euston Road]].
An unusual exhibition at the gallery in 1938 was The Jones Exhibition, in which the artists [[Graham Bell (artist)|Graham Bell]] and [[Thomas Harrisson, artist|Tom Harrisson]]<ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001|author1=Taylor, B.|author2=Barber Institute of Fine Arts|date=1999|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=9780719054532|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ce0sj2qmBsYC|page=276|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> curated an exhibition of London scenes by British painters all named Jones. They typed letters to invite over 800 London-based families with the widely held surname.<ref name="sussex">{{cite web|url=http://www.sussex.ac.uk/library/speccoll/collection_catalogues/tclists/tc33.html|title=University of Sussex Library Special Collections: Mass-Observation Archive|publisher=sussex.ac.uk|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref>
[[File:Storran Gallery 1937.jpg|thumb|right|A 1937 Storran Gallery receipt for Modigliani, Hitchens and Picasso]]
Pictures exhibited at the Storran Gallery in the late 1930s included those by [[Picasso]], [[Amedeo Modigliani|Modigliani]],<ref name="tate">{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9594&searchid=9351&roomid=false&tabview=text&texttype=8|title='The Little Peasant', Amedeo Modigliani | Tate|publisher=tate.org.uk|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> [[Raoul Dufy|Dufy]], [[Anthony Devas]], [[Claude Rogers (artist)|Claude Rogers]], [[Victor Pasmore]], [[Rupert Shephard]],<ref name="npg">{{cite web|url=http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp07551/rupert-shephard|title=National Portrait Gallery – Person – Rupert Shephard|publisher=npg.org.uk|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> [[Graham Bell (artist)|Graham Bell]], [[Clare Crossley]],<ref>{{Cite news|date=6 November 1935|title=Going Out to Goings-On|page=10|work=[[The Bystander]]|url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001851/19351106/009/0010?browse=true|access-date=2021-07-09}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Knollys|first=Eardley|date=1989|title=The Storran Gallery|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/883668|journal=The Burlington Magazine|volume=131|issue=1032|pages=203–207|jstor=883668 |issn=0007-6287}}</ref> [[William Coldstream]], [[Ivon Hitchens]], [[Jean Varda]],<ref name="sussex"/> [[Derek Sayer]], [[Lynton Lamb]], [[Joan Souter-Robinson]],<ref name="independent">{{cite web|last=Partridge|first=Frances|date=23 October 2011|title=Obituaries Joan Souter-Robertson – People – News – The Independent|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-joan-souterrobertson-1566639.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220525/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-joan-souterrobertson-1566639.html |archive-date=25 May 2022 |url-access=subscription|url-status=live|work=The Independent|location=London|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> Ivy Langton,<ref name="the-cleeve">{{cite web|title=Ivy Langton Artist|url=http://www.the-cleeve.co.uk/IvyLangton.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722160654/http://www.the-cleeve.co.uk/IvyLangton.htm|archive-date=2011-07-22|publisher=the-cleeve.co.uk|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> and [[Derek Latymer-Sayer]].<ref name="blogspot">{{cite web|url=https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2006/11/derek-latymer-sayer-derrick-latimer.html|title=Bear Alley: Derek Latymer-Sayer (Derrick Latimer Sayer)|date=18 November 2006 |publisher=bearalley.blogspot.com|accessdate=2015-01-09}}</ref> A number of these artists were members of the [[Euston Road School]].
The sculptor [[Willi Soukop]] had his first one-man show at the Storran Gallery in 1938.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.saundersfineart.co.uk/artist/24/willi-soukop | title=Willi Soukop Biography – Saunders Fine Art }}</ref>
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