The Storran Gallery was a fashionable ''avant-garde'' art gallery in

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in the 1930s. In 1937 it was run by the prominent art critic

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(a friend of

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) with

Ala Story Ala Story (born 1907, Vienna, Austria-Hungary; d. 1972, Santa Barbara, California), born Emilie Anna Maria Heyszl von Heyszenau'','' was a gallerist and curator, as well as the director of the American British Art Center in New York and the ...

and the artist Frank Coombs (1906-1941). The gallery was at 106

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London SW3 (just opposite

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) but moved to Fitzroy Street and then 316

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. An unusual exhibition at the gallery in 1938 was ‘‘The Jones Exhibition’’. The artists Graham Bell and

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curated an exhibition of London scenes by British painters. As a way of making it "democratic", they typed letters to invite over 800 London-based families with the widely held name Jones. Pictures exhibited at the Storran Gallery in the late 1930s included those by

, Modigliani, Dufy,

Anthony Devas Thomas Anthony Devas (8 January 1911 – 21 December 1958) was a British portrait painter who was associated with members of the Euston Road School. Early life Thomas Anthony Devas, known as Anthony, was born in Bromley in Kent, on 8 Janua ...

, Claude Rogers,

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, Rupert Shephard, Graham Bell,

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Ivon Hitchens Ivon Hitchens (born London, 3 March 1893 – 29 August 1979) was an English painter who started exhibiting during the 1920s. He became part of the ' London Group' of artists and exhibited with them during the 1930s. His house was bombed in 1940 d ...

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, Derek Sayer,

Lynton Lamb Lynton Lamb RDI, FSRA, FSIA (15 April 1907 – 4 September 1977) was an English artist-designer, author, lithographer and illustrator who was notable for his book jacket, poster, architectural decoration and postage stamp designs. Life and ...

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, Ivy Langton, and

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. A number of these artists were members of the

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