Sensation (art exhibition) was over "Myra", an image of the murderer Myra Hindley by Marcus Harvey. The Mothers Against Murder and Aggression protest group picketed the show, accompanied by Winnie Johnson, the mother of one of Hindley's victims. They asked for the portrait, which is made up of hundreds of copies of a child's handprint, to be excluded to protect Johnson's feelings. Along with supporters she picketed the show's first day. Myra Hindley sent a letter from jail suggesting that her portrait be removed from the exhibition, reasoning that such action was necessary because the work was "a sole disregard not only for
Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade artists calling themselves the New English Art Club at the Dudley Gallery in London. The painting was also included in two posthumous exhibitions of Sargent’s work, once in 1925 at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, and again in 1926 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. After its acquisition by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in 1986, "Portrait of Mrs. Cecil Wade" was featured in three additional special exhibitions. The first was an exhibition of selected new acquisitions at the Nelson-Atkins Museum in 1987, in which it received special distinction amongst the other highlighted works. The painting