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Article: Poets of the metropolis. Spencer Gore and Harold Gilman emerge as the central figures of the Camden Town group in this Tate exhibition.(EXHIBITIONS)
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- April 1, 2008
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If we consider the short-lived, 16-member Camden Town Group as embodying a style, or as a moment in English culture, only three names really matter. Some 'big names'--Wyndham Lewis, Augustus John--exhibited with the group but never painted in a recognisably Camden Town manner and can be set aside, as they have been by the curators of this exhibition. Several members were never more than pupils, friends or satellites of core artists and, apart perhaps from Malcolm Drummond, who is well represented in the show, remain peripheral. Even Robert Bevan and Charles Ginner--founder members (at the conspiratorial dinner at Gatti's in April 1911 from which Sickert emerged, rather ...