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and

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, and British painters including

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and Sir William Nicholson. The gallery opened in the early years of the century at 34

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, London W., on the corner with Stafford Street; but by 1910 had moved to 1 Duke Street, St. James's.

Exhibitions

In June 1903 the gallery showed watercolours by William Nicholson of the colleges of

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. Twenty-four

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s of these, with descriptive text by

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, were published by the gallery in two folios in 1905. Nicholson also provided the cover illustration for the catalogue of an exhibition of

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in 1910. In the second decade of the century, and thus shortly after

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's ''Manet and the Post-Impressionists'' at the

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in 1910–11, the Stafford Gallery began to show more avant-garde, particularly French, works. In 1911 there were exhibitions of paintings by Courbet (March), Sickert (June), Gauguin and Cézanne (November), and possibly

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in October; work by

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may also have been shown. The Gauguin show is the subject of

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's painting ''Gauguins and Connoisseurs at the Stafford Gallery''. In 1912 there were exhibitions of paintings by the Scottish Colourist painter J.D. Fergusson in March, and drawings by Picasso in April.

References

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seventh issue. Rochdale: J. Clegg. William Nicholson, Arthur Waugh (1905). ''Oxford'', Parts I and II. London: Stafford Gallery, 1905. Frances Spalding (1980)
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London: Granada Publishing. {{ISBN, 9780236401789. Robert Upstone, Helena Bonett (2009)
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