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T H E Lo N D O N G Ro The London Group The St Ives Connection The London Group The St Ives Connection 8–29 Sept 2018 Belgrave St Ives [email protected] 22 Fore Street, St Ives www.belgravestives.co.uk Cornwall TR26 1HE You can follow us on 01736 794888 Instagram and Twitter: @belgravestives #artstives The London Group – The St Ives Connection History of The London Group I was pleased to be asked by The London Group if I would like to arrange an exhibition of The London Group was formed by an amalgamation of the Camden As Europe healed its wounds, The London Group was to enter into a work by earlier members, with an emphasis on artists having a strong St Ives association, Town Group and the English Cubists (later Vorticists) in 1913. This golden period in the 1950s and early 1960s. There were regular, afford- grouping of radical young artists came together as a reaction to the able venues to hold annual exhibitions, large enough to offer space for for example Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost. This exhibition has been stranglehold which the Royal Academy had on exhibiting new work. every member to show more than one work and to invite non-members planned to run concurrently with the exhibition of contemporary members organised Founder members included Spencer Gore, Wyndham Lewis, Sickert through open submission. The highlight of this period was The London by The London Group at the Penwith Gallery, St Ives. The unique collaboration has also and Epstein. The London Group decided on a written constitution Group Jubilee Exhibition held at the Tate Gallery in 1964. given me the opportunity to include several artists selected from the rich history of and a number of officers to run the Group’s affairs. Members were to The London Group whose work has been represented in exhibitions of Modern British be elected to the Group based on a democratic election. A Working In the 1970s The London Group became the major vehicle for young Art at the Belgrave Gallery, London. Party was set up to organize London Group exhibitions which were artists emerging from art school in the way the Young Contemporaries to revitalize contemporary visual art, bringing in new European was for art students. It held major open exhibitions across London Artists rarely work in isolation, and throughout art history there has been an interaction developments in painting and sculpture, especially from France. including the Royal College of Art, The South London Art Gallery and between contemporaries – ideas are bounced around stimulating individual artists to Artists exhibited their own choice of work. The London Group made Camden Art Centre. The nature of contemporary visual art and its take work in new directions. Artists have visited St Ives for over a hundred and fifty years, no judgmental decisions on members’ work, a tradition proudly consumption began to change and diversify and this change was St Ives-based artists have always travelled to London to see and to be included in major defended to this day. reflected in the membership and exhibition strategies of the Group. The last large ‘open show’ was launched by Lord Gowrie, the then exhibitions, and many St Ives artists trained or taught at art schools where the teachers The beginning of the First World War and the early death of the first Minister for the Arts, and was also The London Group’s 80th Anniversary were often London Group Members. The history of Modern British Art can be traced President, Harold Gilman, were inauspicious moments for the new Exhibition, held at the Concourse Gallery, Barbican in 1993. The 90th through the list of London Group members. group, yet it survived and, in the 1920s, developed into a progressive Anniversary Exhibition in Cork Street saw the launch of The London and critically acclaimed venue for contemporary artists. Roger Fry Group website and a commemorative yearbook published in 2003. It is 20 years since Belgrave Gallery opened in St Ives, and almost 45 years since the and the Bloomsbury set were extremely influential in the Group original gallery opened in Belgravia, London. The association with The London Group, during this decade. David Redfern (2013) timed to coincide with the St Ives September Festival in the art-focused town of St Ives, The London Group: A History 1913 – 2013 is a unique event to mark the occasion. The 1930s saw a greater diversity of activity. There was a healthy exchange between the more objective Cézanne salon and the Michael Gaca Surrealists, for example. Again, the Group survived another World War, managing to mount exhibitions throughout the early 1940s. 2 3 FRAnk AuERBACH b.1931 Head of Julia / 2001 Etching / 23 x 25.5 cm (sheet) Plate size: 11.5 x 14.5 cm Printed by Mark Balakjian at Studio Prints, London, produced in collaboration with RoBERT ADAMS 1917 –1984 Marlborough Graphics, London, and Col (opus 341) / 1972 included in the limited edition of the book Bronze / 15 cm (H) ‘Frank Auerbach: Paintings and Drawings Brown with brown patina 1954 –2001’, which accompanied the Stamped with signature, dated artist’s exhibition at the Royal Academy and numbered 2/6 under base of Arts, London Provenance: Private Collection Both book and etching are signed Edition 124/150 4 5 CRAIGIE AITCHISon 1926 –2009 JoHn BARnICoAT 1924 –2013 Daffodils and Candlestick / 1998 untitled / 1950 Screenprint / 49.5 x 38 cm oil on canvas / 51 x 61 cm Signed Provenance: The Artist’s Estate Edition 30/75 6 7 JoHn BRATBY 1928 –1992 RoBERT BuHLER / 1916 –1989 Royal Hill / 1978 St. Didier, near Macon Pastel / 37 x 54 cm oil on board / 42 x 55 cm Signed, titled and dated Signed and titled Provenance: The Alma Gallery, Bristol 8 9 JEFFERY CAMP b.1923 RICHARD CARLInE 1896 –1980 Laetitia with Roses / 1966 untitled / 1966 oil on board / 41 x 41 cm (octagonal) Watercolour and pencil / 55 x 36.5 cm Titled and dated on label on reverse Signed and dated Exhibited: The New Art Centre 10 11 ALAn DAVIE 1920 –2014 Magic Picture no.1 / 1977 Lithograph / 55 x 74 cm ToM CRoSS 1931 –2009 Printed by Curwen Studio, In a Window – Still Life / 1979 London Signed and dated oil on canvas / 76 x 61 cm Edition 339/500 Signed, titled and dated on reverse There is a copy of this work in the Tate Collection 12 13 DEnnIS CREFFIELD 1931 –2018 JuLES DE GoEDE 1937 –2007 Cilgerran, Pembrokeshire / 2001 untitled II / 2006 Charcoal on paper / 38 x 56.5 cm Collage / 14.5 x 20 cm Signed and dated Signed and dated Provenance: Private Collection 14 15 RonALD oSSoRY DunLoP AnTHonY FRY 1927 –2016 1894 –1973 untitled Boating on Thames, kingston oil on board / 39.5 x 37 cm oil on canvas / 26 x 36 cm Signed Signed Provenance: The Estate of Joe and Mary Hope Joe Hope was the former Head of Fine Art at Bath Academy of Art, Corsham Court, 1968 –1981 16 17 DunCAn GRAnT 1885 –1978 ELISABETH FRInk 1930 –1993 Washerwoman II / 1974 Lying Down Horse (Wiseman 57) / 1972 Lithograph / 74.5 x 43 cm (image) Lithograph / 50 x 70 cm 77.5 x 57.5 cm (sheet) Printed by Curwen Studio, London, published Printed at the Curwen Studio and published by Leslie Waddington Prints Ltd. by Observer Art, London 1975 Unsigned proof aside from the edition of 250 Signed Edition of 350 There is a copy of this work in the Tate Collection There is a copy of this work in the Tate Collection 18 19 TERRY FRoST 1915 –2003 TERRY FRoST Brown Figure (kemp 25) / 1957 Three Graces / 1960 Lithograph / 42.5 x 56.5 cm Acrylic and watercolour on paper Signed and dated 43 x 57.5 cm Edition 14/30 Signed and dated Literature: Terry Frost Prints, Provenance: Waddington Galleries Dominic Kemp, 2010, illus. p25 (as ‘Yellow Watercolour’) Lady Joan Zuckerman (bought from above) Gillian Jason Gallery 20 21 BARBARA HEPWoRTH 1903 –1975 BARBARA HEPWoRTH Moon Landscape / 1973 olympus / 1971 Lithograph / 56 x 77 cm (sheet) Lithograph / 76.5 x 54.5 cm (image) From the Penwith Portfolio, a From ‘The Aegean Suite’ mixed portfolio of 11 lithographs in Printed by Curwen Studios, London aid of the Penwith Gallery, St Ives Signed Edition 32/60 Signed Edition 57/90 22 23 PATRICk HERon 1920 –1999 PATRICk HERon 5:15 p.m. June 11 : 1984 untitled / 1950 (with charcoal) / 1984 Monoprint / 45 x 33 cm oil and charcoal on canvas / 41 x 51 cm Signed and dated Signed, titled, dated and inscribed Provenance: Roger Mayne – acquired on the reverse direct from the artist in the 1960s Also titled on the canvas overlap Exhibited: London, Barbican Art Gallery, Patrick Heron, 11 July – 1 September 1985, cat. no.64 Provenance: Waddington Galleries, London 24 25 ADRIAn HEATH 1920 –1992 JoSEF HERMAn 1911 –2000 Black and Lemon Abstract / 1960 Tree I oil on canvas / 104 x 91 cm Coloured inks on paper / 19 x 24 cm Signed and dated Signed and titled on reverse Also signed and dated February ‘60 on reverse Further titled and dated on the canvas overlap Provenance: Private Collection 26 27 DAVID HAuGHTon 1924 –1991 JACoB kRAMER 1892 –1962 untitled (St Just Drawing) Mother and Child / 1922 Pencil on paper / 27 x 35.5 cm Watercolour / 40 x 28.5 cm Signed Signed, dated and inscribed ‘To Sir Michael Sadler from Jacob Kramer’ This drawing is from a portfolio of drawings salvaged from a studio Sir Michael Sadler was Vice Chancellor of the fire in 1981 that destroyed much University of Leeds between 1911 –1923 and he or the artist’s work became one of the leading figures promoting Modern Art between the two world wars.
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