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(2013) <i>The London Group: A History 1913–2013</i>. The London Group:\r\n\r\nThe Working Committee was R.P. Bevan, D. Fox-Pitt, M. Godwin, Sylvia Gosse, C.R.W. Nevinson and R. Schwabe from a total of thirty-seven members. There had been some membership changes since the last exhibition in May. Edward McKnight Kauffer (who had been the Honorary Secretary) had resigned. Others not listed were Charles Ginner (although he continues to exhibit with the Group through the inter-war years), Wyndham-Lewis, William Roberts, Edward Wadsworth and Frederick Etchells.\r\n\r\nWalter Sickert appears again on the list as a full member having been first elected in 1916, along with new members Vanessa Bell, Bernard Meninsky, Keith Baynes and Boris Anrep. This was a large exhibition of one hundred and twenty-nine works, much more than previous years. Thirteen non-members exhibited up to two works each, (members were entitled to show five each), amongst them being E.M. O’R. Dickey, Rupert Lee, F.J. Porter, Mathew (sic) Smith, Cicely Stock and E. Wolfe. All of these artists were destined to be voted into the Group as full members, previous selection being a condition of London Group membership. The titles listed in this catalogue were predictable and unchanging, “Portrait”, “Landscape”, “Interior”, “Study”, “Still Life”, “Flowers”, “Trees”. By contrast there was “The Hunger Marcher” from David Bomberg and circus themes from Mark Gertler and Boris Anrep. Exhibit number 129 (the last!) was “Brown Bear” (sculpture) by Rupert Lee, the first three-dimensional object in a London Group exhibition for a while...\r\nSylvia Gosse exhibited a number of etching and lithographic prints. The catalogue was a curious construction of two folded sheets of cheap, beige paper folded A5. Given that there were so many designers in the Group (McKnight Kauffer was Honoraray Secretary), or at least known to group members, the quality of these catalogues was disappointing.'\r\n\r\n\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"The following reference is from Kauffer, E., Condell, C. and Orr, E., 2020. E. McKnight Kauffer. Rizzoli Electa, p.p. 40.\r\n\r\n\"Kauffer's poster for the November 1919 exhibition of the London Group was by far his most successful integration of lettering and image to date for the group. The striding silhouetted figure from the 1918 poster [see E.181-1987]...has doubled and taken on a confrontational stance. The two figures are each in themselves doubled: they face up to each other, head to head (or mask to mask), teeth bared, fists up, yet they also seem to face away from each other, elbows out. Their legs join at the base, making a shape suggestive of ancient amphoras. They are set against a rhythmic amalgamation of flat pink quadrilaterals. In the lettering of the poster, Kauffer deploys triangles as crossbars in the A's and E's, and playfully stresses the O's by twisting them askew, sometimes in opposing directions. For no apparent reason, a lone lower case <i>i</i> appears in the otherwise all uppercase 'exhibition'.\""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"<i>The Poster King. E. McKnight Kauffer</i> London: Estorick Collection of modern italian art, 2011. 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