Malcolm Drummond
1880-1945
After graduating from Christ Church, Oxford, in 1903 Drummond then spent four years at the Slade School of Art and then a further year at the Westminster School of Art under Walter Sickert. His association with Sickert proved to be long lasting and he was a founder member of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group. Drummond was a very active member of both groups, serving on hanging committees and also acting as Treasurer. He was a painter mainly in oils and an etcher of figure and town subjects - he delighted in figures and groups going about their daily business - interiors of theatres, cinemas, studios and courtrooms were common themes. His strongly constructed pictures displayed a keenness for vivid bright colours and he was much influenced by Roger Fry's two Post Impressionist exhibtions in 1910 and 1912. Indeed his simplification of form often provoked the critics and his large canvas entitled Common Jury exhibited at the London Group in 1920 was scorned by the Daily Mail: 'The challenging picture of the show is Mr Drummond's Common Jury, a drastic affair indeed. The Jury men are sternly simplified: the economy (a poster like economy) of this large and severely ugly canvas is remarkable.' His work is represented in public collections worldwide and the Arts Council staged a retrospective exhibition of his work in 1963.
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Interior with Woman Sewing