SOUTHAMPTON City Art Gallery has Britain’s largest collection of work by The London Group. The collection was started in 1954 after a highly successful London Group exhibition held during that year, and it has continued to be built up until today.
For the first time, 60 years later, the gallery is showing the historic works together alongside contemporary work by current members in a dynamic show representing many of Britain’s greatest 20th and 21st century artists including David Bomberg, Walter Sickert, LS Lowry, Henry Moore, Vanessa Bell, William Scott, Nina Hamnett, Jacop Epstein, Graham Sutherland, Mary Fedden and Paula Rego.
Several of the artists including Lowry and Christopher Nevinson created paintings about Southampton.
The London Group was formed by an amalgamation of the Camden Town Group and the English Cubists (later Vorticists) in 1913.
This grouping of radical young artists came together as a reaction to the stranglehold that the Royal Academy had on exhibiting contemporary art.
- The major London Group in Southampton exhibition gets under way today and runs until November 1.
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