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Article: Little pictures for little patrons ; The late Edwardian painters of Camden Town, currently at Tate Britain, aspired to provide low-cost art for ordinary people
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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IN TATE Britain's new exhibition devoted to the painters of
Camden Town early in the 20th century, I sense the consequences of a
long-lived but very quiet conspiracy to elevate to undue importance
a group who, in the great cat's cradle of art history, matter not a
jot. More than half a century ago, one of my tutors at the Courtauld
Institute, Michael Kitson who should have become the institute's
director after Anthony Blunt suggested that I should look at Robert
Bevan, Charles Ginner, Harold Gilman, Spencer Gore and other
painters who had briefly gathered at the knee of Sickert; and look I
did, with amusement and enthusiasm, for in their various hesitant
ways they seemed a tentative, ...