Group X

For the taxonomic synonym, see Poposauroidea.

Group X
Lithograph poster by E. McKnight Kauffer for the Group X exhibition 26 March – 24 April 1920
Years active1920
LocationUnited Kingdom
Major figures
InfluencesVorticism
Cover of the catalogue of the Mansard Gallery exhibition

Group X was a short-lived British artistic movement in the years after the First World War, which held an exhibition in 1920 and planned others that never happened.

In 1920, some former members of the pre-War Vorticist movement abruptly left the London Group of which they had been part. Six – Jessica Dismorr, Frederick Etchells, Cuthbert Hamilton, Wyndham Lewis, William Roberts and Edward Wadsworth – were joined by the sculptor Frank Dobson, Charles Ginner, the American Edward McKnight Kauffer and John Turnbull to found Group X.[1][2]

The group exhibited at the Mansard Gallery in Heal's in the Tottenham Court Road from 26 March to 24 April 1920.[3]: 246 

References

  1. ^ Monica Bohm-Duchen. Group X. Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Accessed May 2017. (subscription required).
  2. ^ Glossary of art terms: Group X. London: Tate Gallery. Accessed May 2017.
  3. ^ Nigel Vaux Halliday (April 1987). The Identity of Wyndham Lewis's Painting at Group X. The Burlington Magazine 129 (1009): 245–247. (subscription required).

Further reading

  • Charles Harrison (1981). English Art and Modernism 1900–1939. London: Allen Lane.