Fitzroy Street Group
The Fitzroy Street Group was an organisation created to promote and support artists. It was established in 1907 by Walter Sickert and merged in 1913 with the Camden Town Group to form the London Group.
Overview
[edit]In 1907 Walter Sickert formed the Fitzroy Street Group. Initial members were Walter Russell, Spencer Gore, and brother Albert Rutherston and William Rothenstein. Robert Bevan, Lucien Pissarro, Nan Hudson and Ethel Sands also joined the organization.[1]
The Fitzroy Street Group and the male member only Camden Town Group, a male-member organization,[2] merged in 1913 to become the London Group.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Linden Peach. (2010). "6: Virginia Woolf and Realist Aesthetics[dead link]," in The Edinburgh Companion to Virginia Woolf and the Arts, ed. Maggie Humm. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. p. 113.
- ^ Ian Chilvers, A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art Archived 17 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 110.
- ^ Ethel Sands. Tate. Retrieved 17 January 2014.