Leeds Arts Club
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The Leeds Arts Club was founded in 1903 by the Leeds primary school teacher Alfred Orage and Holbrook Jackson, a lace merchant and freelance journalist, and was one of the most advanced centres for mo
Mary Gawthorpe, 1908
Michael Sadler
Frank Rutter
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Francis Vane Phipson Rutter was a British art critic, curator and activist.
Leeds Arts Club
…Comedy Company gave three performances. In 1911 and 1912, the appointments of Michael Sadler as the new Vice-Chancellor of the University of Leeds and Frank Rutter as director of the Leeds Art Gallery changed the nature of the Club. Under their leadership the Arts Club maintained its interest in the relationship…
Old Court Gatehouse of Queens' College, Cambridge
Claude Monet, Lavacourt Under Snow, 1878–1881. Rutter's unsuccessful, too "advanced", choice for the National Gallery.
Eugène Boudin. The Entrance to Trouville Harbour, 1888. The National Gallery accepted this painting.
Walter Sickert