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Group of English painters formed in 1911.
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.
Members
The members included Harold Gilman, Frederick Spencer Gore, Lucien Pissarro (the son of French Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro), Walter Bayes, J.B. Manson, Robert Bevan, Augustus John, Henry Lamb, and Charles Ginner.
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 artistic societies. In the group officially became the Camden Town Group.
The Camden Town Group painted everyday urban surroundings in vivid Post-Impressionist colours, but only a few of their members actually lived in Camden. Walter Sickert and Spencer Gore were among those and often depicted the area's seedy urban sites, music halls and dingy bedsits from their succession of Camden studios.
The group organized the exhibition of Cubist and Post-Impression paintings.
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