The London Group 1913-1939
The Artists and their Works
Denys J. Wilcox
The London Group 1913-1939 is the first detailed record of the largest society devoted to the development of modern art in Britain. The Group's founder members included Walter Bayes, Robert Bevan, Malcolm Drummond, Jacob Epstein, Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore, Duncan Grant, Wyndham Lewis, J. B. Manson, John Nash and Ethel Sands. As the spearhead of modernism in Britain the London Group evoked heated controversy. However, by 1937 the 'News Chronicle' was describing the Group as the 'The Intelligent Man's Royal Academy'.
Drawing on previously unpublished sources, this study lists all member exhibits and non-member exhibitors at the Group's shows between 1914 and 1939, together with brief biographies of the artists. Appendices republish the prefaces and forewards to many of the Group's exhibitions.
The reference book provides valuable information and insight into one of the most significant bodies in 20th-century British painting and sculpture.
Published by Scolar Press
ISBN: 1 85928 048 X
Publication Date: 01/19995
Number of Pages: 264 pages
Binding: Hardback
Binding Options: Available in Hardback only
Book Size: 210 x 148 mm
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The London Group 1913-1939
Denys J. Wilcox
The Atkinson Gallery, Millfield School
February 1995
Number of Pages: 14 pages
Binding: Softback
Illustrations: 10
British Art, Nazi Germany and the London Group
A 'friendship' exhibition as propaganda
Denys J. Wilcox
Apollo
Volume CXLII, Number 404
October 1995
pp. 14-16
Newlyn & St. Ives 1880-1930
The Court Gallery
1995
4 pages
A new drawing from Sickert's stay in St. Ives 1883-84
Denys J. Wilcox
The Burlington Magazine
Volume CXXXVIII, Number III4
January 1996
p. 30
A Forgotten Vorticist: Cuthbert Hamilton
Denys J. Wilcox
London Magazine
Volume 35, Number 11 & 12
February/March 1996
pp. 146-148
Spencer Gore & his Circle
Denys J. Wilcox
ISBN: 1 901192 00 8
Publication Date: 1996
Number of Pages: 44 pages
Binding: Softback
Margaret Geddes
Denys J. Wilcox
ISBN: 0 948385 27 8
Publication Date: 1998
Number of Pages: 70 pages
Binding: Softback
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The Westminster Tradition
Denys J. Wilcox
London Magazine
Volume 37, Number 11 & 12
February/March 1998
pp. 49-58
Marjorie Heather and Friends
Including works by Stanley & Gilbert Spencer, R. O. Dunlop and Helen Robinson
Denys J. Wilcox
The Court Gallery
September 1998
4 pages
Sir Ernest Waterlow, RA (1850-1919)
By John Wilcox
The Court Gallery
April 2000
4 pages
John Lessore
London Paintings
Denys J. Wilcox (introduction)
Berkeley Square Gallery in association with Gillian Jason
Modern & Contemporary Art
2002
Tom Early
The Catalogued Work
Denys J. Wilcox
Michael Miller
Encouraged by Ben Nicholson, the self-taught Tom Early became part of the St. Ives art colony in the late 1940s and 1950s. His first exhibitions, with Denis Mitchell, were held at the Castle Inn, St. Ives, and were followed by election to membership of the Penwith Society of Artists.
Early's work quickly grew in confidence and sophistication, his paintings critically well received a ground-breaking exhibition 'Fifteen Cornish Artists' at Heal's Mansard Gallery, London in 1951, at which he showed alongside Peter lanyon, Patrick Heron, Terry Frost and other eminent St. Ives artists. Here he met his second wife, and two years later left Cornwall.
It was to be seven years before a second flowering of painting was to emerge. During this period and following a return to medicine he was led into a constructive period of reflection which culminated in his taking up painting again after a more to Derby in 1958. Here with Keith Richardson-Jones he founded the Derby Group of Artists in 1961. Early's deeply personal vision aroused interest - not to say controversy - in the local and national media. he also exhibited with the Midland Group of Artists in Nottingham until his premature death in 1967 when his life's work effectively disappeared from view.
It was rescued from oblivion, through the promptings of Sven Berlin, with a first major retrospective in 1994, 'Tom Early - The rediscovery of a St. Ives artist' at the Belgrave Gallery in London, the publication of 'The Magic Shuttle' by Redcliffe Press, and an illustrated lecture at the Tate, St. Ives. A major joint exhibition with Denis Mitchell, 'The Rock and the Light', at the Penwith Galleries, St. Ives in 1996 was followed by a number of mixed exhibitions, All this led led naturally to the publication of this catalogue raisonné, the recording by Michael Miller, artist and friend, of around 150 paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Dr. Denys Wilcox reveals Tom Early to be a rare visionary artist with a profound poetic gift in his appraisal prefacing the catalogue.
Published by: Sansom & Company Ltd
ISBN 1 904537 23 5
Publication Date: 2005
Number of Pages: 157 pages
Binding: Hardback
Book size: 11 x 8.5 inches
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Garnet Wolseley (1884-1967)
Newlyn Summers
John Wilcox
Published by The Court Gallery
Publication Date: October 2005
Number of Pages: 22 Pages
Binding: Softback
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Rupert Lee: Painter, Sculptor and Printmaker
By Denys J. Wilcox
In preparation - To be published by Sansom & Company in 2010
