PARR GALLERY
Marjorie Parr founded her gallery at 285 Kings Road, Chelsea in 1963 which she had open for nearly 20 years attracting collectors, fellow dealers and artists. Her early Kings Road exhibitions included shows by Guy Riccalton Wordsell (1908-1979), Michael James Andrews (1928-1995) and John Hitchens (1940-), sculptors Peter Eugene Ball (1943-), Roger Leigh (1925-1997), Peter Thursby (1930-2011), Elisabeth Jean Frink (1930-1993), Enzo Mario Plazzotta (1921-1981), Frederick Edward McWilliam (1909-1992) and textile designer Tadek Franz Beutlich (1922-2011). In April 1969 she opened another gallery in Wills Lane, St Ives, Cornwall with her showing in the next two years. In 1971 Marjorie Parr sold her Wills Lane gallery to Peter Gibbs from Cheltenham and in 1974 sold her King Street gallery to David Gilbert who renamed the gallery the Gilbert Parr Gallery and continued to trade successfully until he finally closed it in October 1982. Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Parr Gallery or Gilbert Parr Gallery include Robert Scott Simon and Valerie Thornton