Camden Town Group

The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London.

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English - Post-Impressionist - Walter Sickert - Camden Town - London

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The members included Harold Gilman, Frederick Spencer Gore, Lucien Pissarro (the of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro), Walter Bayes, J.B. Manson, Robert Bevan, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, and Charles Ginner.

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Harold Gilman - Frederick Spencer Gore - Lucien Pissarro - French - Impressionist - Camille Pissarro - Walter Bayes - J.B. Manson - Robert Bevan - Augustus John - Henry Lamb - Charles Ginner

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Critic Frank Rutter joined the group in 1908 and argued the group should model itself on the French Salon des Indépendants. They worked to created the Allied Artists Association, a group separate from the Royal Academy artisitic societies. In the group officially became the Camden Town Group.

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Frank Rutter - Salon des Indépendants - Allied Artists Association - Royal Academy

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The group organized the exhibition of Cubist and Post-Impression paintings.

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