The Storran Gallery was a fashionable ''avant-garde'' art gallery in London in the 1930s. In 1937 it was run by the prominent art critic

Eardley Knollys (Edward) Eardley Knollys (1902–1991) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group of artists - variously an art critic, art dealer and collector, active from the 1920s to 1950s. He only himself began to paint in 1949, and had his first solo exhibi ...

(a friend of

Picasso Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist and Scenic design, theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France. One of the most influential artists of the 20th ce ...

) with Ala Story and the artist Frank Coombs (1906-1941). The gallery was at 106 Brompton Road 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 Tom Harrisson 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 January ...

, Claude Rogers, Victor Pasmore, Rupert Shephard, Graham Bell, Clare Crossley, William Coldstream,

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 du ...

, Jean Varda,

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, Lynton Lamb, Joan Souter-Robinson, Ivy Langton, and

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. A number of these artists were members of the Euston Road School.

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