# Camden Town Group > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Camden_Town_Group > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Camden_Town_Group.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Town_Group > Source revision: 1329607373 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Group of English Post-Impressionist artists [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert) The **Camden Town Group** was a group of English [Post-Impressionist](/source/Post-Impressionism) artists founded in 1911 and active until 1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert) in the [Camden Town](/source/Camden_Town) area of [London](/source/London). ## History In 1908, critic [Frank Rutter](/source/Frank_Rutter) created the [Allied Artists Association](/source/Allied_Artists_Association) (AAA), a group separate from the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) artistic societies and modelled on the French [Salon des Indépendants](/source/Salon_des_Ind%C3%A9pendants). Many of the artists who became the Camden Town Group exhibited with the AAA. [Harold Gilman](/source/Harold_Gilman). *Mrs Mounter at the Breakfast Table*, 1917 The members of the Camden Town Group included [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert), [Harold Gilman](/source/Harold_Gilman), [Spencer Frederick Gore](/source/Spencer_Gore_(artist)), [Lucien Pissarro](/source/Lucien_Pissarro) (the son of [French](/source/France) [Impressionist](/source/Impressionism) painter [Camille Pissarro](/source/Camille_Pissarro)), [Wyndham Lewis](/source/Wyndham_Lewis), [Walter Bayes](/source/Walter_Bayes), [J. B. Manson](/source/J._B._Manson), [Robert Bevan](/source/Robert_Bevan_(artist)), [Augustus John](/source/Augustus_John), [Henry Lamb](/source/Henry_Lamb), [Charles Ginner](/source/Charles_Ginner), and [John Doman Turner](/source/John_Doman_Turner). Influences include [Vincent van Gogh](/source/Vincent_van_Gogh) and [Paul Gauguin](/source/Paul_Gauguin) whose work can clearly be traced throughout this group's work. Their portrayal of much of London before and during [World War I](/source/World_War_I) is historically interesting and artistically important.[1] [Robert Polhill Bevan](/source/Robert_Polhill_Bevan). *Mare and Foal*, 1917 *In the Cinema* by [Malcolm Drummond](/source/Malcolm_Drummond) is noted for its claustrophobic feeling. It is an interesting foil to the work of Sickert who painted many rowdy music hall scenes, including *Gallery of the Old Mogul* (also depicting the viewers of a film). Sickert's *Ennui* of 1914 is often considered the masterpiece of this group's work, with its portrayal of boredom and apathy in the mold of Flaubert and others. The group organized the exhibition of [Cubist](/source/Cubism) and Post-Impressionist paintings. A major retrospective of the group's works was held at [Tate Britain](/source/Tate_Britain) in [London](/source/London) in 2008. The show did not include eight of the members, among them Duncan Grant, J. D. Innes, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, John Doman Turner, Wyndham Lewis and J. B. Manson, who was, according to Wendy Baron, of "too little individual character".[2] ## Members [J. B. Manson](/source/J._B._Manson). *Lucien Pissarro Reading*, est. 1913 It was decided that there should be a 16-member, men only, limit on the group: [Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot](/source/Maxwell_Gordon_Lightfoot) died after the first exhibition, and [Duncan Grant](/source/Duncan_Grant) was elected to take his place.[3] - [Walter Bayes](/source/Walter_Bayes) - [Robert Bevan](/source/Robert_Bevan_(artist)) - [Malcolm Drummond](/source/Malcolm_Drummond) - [Harold Gilman](/source/Harold_Gilman) - [Charles Ginner](/source/Charles_Ginner) - [Spencer Frederick Gore](/source/Spencer_Gore_(artist)) - [Duncan Grant](/source/Duncan_Grant) - [James Dickson Innes](/source/James_Dickson_Innes) - [Augustus John](/source/Augustus_John) - [Henry Lamb](/source/Henry_Lamb) - [Wyndham Lewis](/source/Wyndham_Lewis) - [Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot](/source/Maxwell_Gordon_Lightfoot) - [J. B. Manson](/source/J._B._Manson) - [Lucien Pissarro](/source/Lucien_Pissarro) - [William Ratcliffe](/source/William_Ratcliffe%2C_artist) - [Walter Sickert](/source/Walter_Sickert) - [John Doman Turner](/source/John_Doman_Turner) Although women were excluded from the Camden Town Group, a few women artists like [Ethel Sands](/source/Ethel_Sands), [Anna Hope Hudson](/source/Anna_Hope_Hudson) and [Marjorie Sherlock](/source/Marjorie_Sherlock) were involved on the periphery; others, like [Sylvia Gosse](/source/Sylvia_Gosse), were cut out altogether.[4] ## See also [Spencer Gore](/source/Spencer_Gore_(artist)). *Hartington Square* - [Frank Rutter](/source/Frank_Rutter) - [John Doman Turner](/source/John_Doman_Turner) - [The London Group](/source/The_London_Group) ## Notes and references 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Spalding, *Dictionary of British Art*, vol. VI, pp. 19-22 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Lambirth, Andrew (5 March 2008). ["Velvet revolutionaries"](http://www.spectator.co.uk/2008/03/velvet-revolutionaries/). *[The Spectator](/source/The_Spectator)*. Retrieved 13 March 2016. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Baron, Wendy and Sickert, Walter. *Sickert: Paintings and Drawings*, p. 81, Yale University Press, 2006. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [0-300-11129-0](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-300-11129-0), [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-300-11129-3](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-300-11129-3). Available on [Google books](https://books.google.com/books?id=4S5K_DSH4hgC&pg=PA508&dq=Sickert:+Paintings+and+Drawings,+p.+81&sig=ACfU3U1BfOSDOFz3KnByGFMIJNDNnIoikQ#PPA81,M1). 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Ian Chilvers, [*A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art*](https://www.questia.com/read/74370572) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100417003059/http://www.questia.com/read/74370572) 17 April 2010 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 110. ## Further reading - Wendy Baron, *Perfect Moderns: A History of the Camden Town Group*, Ashgate, 2000 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1840142914](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1840142914) - Robert Upstone, *Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group*, exhibition catalogue, Tate Britain, London, 2008 [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [1-85437-781-7](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-85437-781-7) - Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), *The Camden Town Group in Context*, Tate, May 2012, [http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group](http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group) ## External links - [Camden Town Group in Context at Tate](http://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group) - [James Beechey on the Camden Town Group](https://web.archive.org/web/20080305020845/http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue12/camdentown.htm) - [John Doman Turner](http://johndomanturner.com) v t e Camden Town Group Artists Walter Bayes Robert Bevan Malcolm Drummond Harold Gilman Charles Ginner Spencer Frederick Gore Duncan Grant James Dickson Innes Augustus John Henry Lamb Wyndham Lewis Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot J. B. Manson Lucien Pissarro William Ratcliffe Walter Sickert John Doman Turner Related groups Fitzroy Street Group Allied Artists Association Vorticism London Group Cumberland Market Group v t e Walter Sickert Paintings Little Dot Hetherington at the Old Bedford (1888–89) Jack the Ripper's Bedroom (1906–07) The Camden Town Murder (1908) Ennui (1914) Brighton Pierrots (1915) Related Ellen Cobden (first wife) Christine Angus (second wife) Thérèse Lessore (third wife) Oswald Sickert (father) Helena Swanwick (sister) Richard Sheepshanks (grandfather) Camden Town Group Portrait of a Killer (2002 book) Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF National United States France BnF data Israel Artists ULAN Other Yale LUX --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Camden Town Group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Town_Group) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camden_Town_Group?action=history)). 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