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Dictionary definition: Camden Town Group
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- A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
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Camden Town Group.
Group of British painters formed in 1911 who took their name from the drab working-class area of London (as it was then) made popular as a subject by
Sickert
. In addition to being the prime inspiration of the group, Sickert suggested the name, saying that the district had been so watered by his tears that something important must come from its soil. The group lasted only two years and held only three exhibitions, but the name is also used in a broader sense to characterize a distinctive strain in British painting from about 1905 to 1920, and as Wendy Baron, the group's leading historian, has written, ‘If we define Camden Town painting as the objective record of ...