File 5/6 - Articles about Augustus John

The file comprises articles and other items, mostly photocopies, including Th. Bolton, 'Augustus John - The Painter', Pearson's Magazine, 1919; 'Some of Augustus John's drawings now on exhibition in the National Gallery, London', Picture Post, March 1941; Alan Andrews, 'Augustus John', Picture Post, March 1954; 'Augustus John a great artist but a difficult sitter' by Allan Chappelow, The Photographic Journal, July 1962; 'The Boy David: Augustus John and Ernst Stern' by Michael Easton, Apollo, 1965; minutes of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, 1938-1954 (Augustus John was its president, 1948-1952); articles, 1912, from various newspapers relating to the cartoon 'Mumpers' by Augustus John exhibited at the New English Art Club in London; 'The drawings of Augustus John' by Hugh Blaker, Colour magazine, 1916; and 'Augustus John in Dorset', Dorset Life, 1990; together with the programme of the Augustus John Memorial Concert held by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1966 and a booklet about Gumfreston Church [where the artist's father Edwin William John was buried].