Gerald Kelly, 117 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. 1., to Sydney

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/SEC/10/41/7

Title

Gerald Kelly, 117 Gloucester Place, Portman Square, W. 1., to Sydney

Date

17 Feb 1938

Level

Item

Extent & medium

5 pieces

Content Description

Kelly sends a four page list of proposals for winter exhibitions. He writes that "there is no worse way of pleasing the public than by courting it . . . The series of shows starting eighteen years ago with the Spanish Exhibition, (which was extremely badly chosen and a poor exhibition,) have, on the whole, proved an immense success. The greater part of the public came for pretty vulgar reasons."

The proposals consist of landscapes (Turner and Constable); portraits (Raphael, Titian and others); Spanish; and England (1870 - 1920, or 1880 - 1930, including only a small number of pictures by members of the Royal Academy), with Kelly's comments.