F[rederick] B[rown], Ormond House, George [Clausen]

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

CL/1/13

Title

F[rederick] B[rown], Ormond House, George [Clausen]

Date

2 Feb 1940

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 piece

Content Description

He thanks Clausen for recognising the service he has rendered the "state" during his life, and reminds him that he set out to "destroy" the teaching methods used by the "state", in the form of the S&A Department [Royal College of Art] and the Royal Academy. He states that his attitudes derive from his innate personality. He is grateful for the purchase of his work "Ivy Arch" by the Chantrey Bequests; his tennant, a portrait painter, cannot pay his rent until the war is over. He talks of the war and that Connard has dropped in periodically, despite the blackout. He is enjoying a press spat on art between MacColl and B. Shaw.