Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings and Etchings by Frank Brangwyn RA, 184 Queen’s Gate, South Kensington, London, May, June and July 1924. (Arranged by Croal Thomson of Barbizon House, London. Several of the paintings, drawings and proofs of the etchings were for sale. Five hundred copies of the illustrated catalogue were printed, price one guinea. The house belonged to Mrs Coutts-Mitchie. This was the first art exhibition to be opened by the Prime Minister of Great Britain – in this instance James Ramsay MacDonald who praised Brangwyn as being the only contemporary artist to represent the ‘fundamental external verities and the struggles of humanity, not in the persons of dead people, but in the persons of his own generation’. Brangwyn did not attend the opening but was keen that everyone should have a chance to see the works and so admission was free on Sundays from 2.30 to 5.30.
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
The following is a list of exhibitions featuring Brangwyn works – if you spot mistakes or know of any other exhibitions please alert me!