The Camden Town Group was a group of English Post-Impressionist artists founded in 1911 and active until 1913. They gathered frequently at the studio of painter Walter Sickert in the Camden Town area of London.

The Camden Town Group held just three exhibitions in 1911–12, but its name has become synonymous with a distinctive period in the history of British art before the First World War.

Artists associated with the Camden Town Group painted realist scenes of city life and some landscape in a range of post-impressionist styles. The group is named after the seedy district of north London where Walter Sickert had lived in the 1890s (and again from 1907).

Oct 1, 2021 · With three brief exhibitions between 1911 and 1912, the group were swiftly swept aside by the revolution of abstraction and modernism. Nevertheless, by ditching the moral conventions of Victorian painting, the group did attempt …

Based in the North London studio of Walter Sickert, The Camden Town Group ran from 1911 to 1913. It was an exclusively male set (although female artists such as Ethel Sands were closely linked to the group) of 16 of the most promising artists of the day.

A short-lived group of sixteen - all male - artists, who met on a weekly basis, often at the studio of Walter Sickert in Camden, north London, from which the group derived their name. They held three exhibitions together at the Carfax Gallery in 1911 and 1912.

The Camden Town Group was a short-lived movement that dissolved in 1913, but the expressive, figurative painting they promoted led the way for the much larger and long lasting London Group, which is still going today.

The art of one of the more significant, if shortlived, British artistic movements of the early 20th century, the Camden Town Group, received a landmark retrospective at London’s Tate Britain museum, which closed in May.

The Camden Town Group was a short-lived group set up by Walter Sickert in 1911 to provide a platform for modern art. Of the 16 members, the main protagonists were Robert Bevan, Harold Gilman, Charles Ginner and Spencer Gore, all of whom shared visual affinities, including an interest in post-Impressionism, and were representative of Sickert's ...

The Camden Town Group was a group of artists inspired by the dark and impressionistic paintings and engravings of Walter Sickert's, who worked in this working-class section of London. The group held three exhibitions at Carfax Gallery in 1911 and 1912.