LONDON SALON
The Allied Artists Association Ltd. which had been founded in 1908 and the Camden Town Group, which was founded in 1911, made up of the members of the Allied Artists' Association with the support of Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942), Spencer Gore (1878-1914), Lucien Camille Pissarro (1863-1944) and Philip Wilson Steer. The Association, with its registered offices at 67-69 Chancery Lane, London, was set up on a cooperative basis and modelled on the Parisian Société des Artistes Indépendants, to provide an independent venue where the progressives, mostly from Sickert's studio, could show their work with submission of work being jury-free. Until 1916, the annual exhibitions were held at the Albert Hall, London after which they moved to the Grafton Galleries in Chelsea and finally in 1920 to Heal's Mansard Gallery until the Association closed. Initially, the rules of the London Salon as it was known, allowed for fee-paying members to exhibit up to five works each but, as the opening exhibition attracted over three thousand entries, this number was reduced to a maximum of three. The Association provided a forum for the development of innovative ideas at a time when the Modernist movement was emerging, and it became an important showcase for both British and foreign artists, introducing the viewing public to a wide range of styles, from that of the progressives such as Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (1866–1944), Ossip Zadkine (1888–1967), Constantin Brâncuși (1876–1957) and Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), to the ethnic art of India and Russia. There are 39 Suffolk artists that link to this site.
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