| Admin/Biog History | Oppé helped curate an exhibition of works by Bonington at the Burlington Fine Arts Club in 1937, for which he also provided an introduction to the catalogue, Oppé, A.P. [introduction] and Burlington Fine Arts Club (1937) Catalogue of an exhibition of pictures and drawings by Richard Parkes Bonington and his circle. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club. [a copy is available in the Paul Mellon Centre Library, see URL below].
He also wrote an in-depth critique of Andrew Shirley's 1941 Bonington monograph, Shirley, A. (1941) Bonington. London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trubner & Co. Ltd. (English master painters). [a copy is available in the Paul Mellon Centre Library, see URL below]. It was published in the Burlington, as follows: Oppé, A.P. (1941) Bonington (book review). The Burlington Magazine, 79(462), pp. 99-101. |