ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION
The Artists' International Association was an exhibiting society founded in 1933 by several left-wings artists and writers, originally it was Artists' International, but it added the word Association to its name when it was reconstituted in 1935 when they nailed their radical politics to the mast with an exhibition entitled Artists Against Fascism and War and the 1937 exhibition 'Twentieth Century German Art' featured works by exile artists living in the United Kingdom serving as a counter-exhibition to the Nazi propaganda exhibition of Degenerate Art.. Most of the group's early exhibitions were held at galleries in the Soho area of London, such as Charlotte Street, Frith Street and Soho Square. Its inaugural exhibition was entitled 'The Social Scene'. In 1940 it published a series of lithographs known as 'Everyman Prints' in large and consequently low-priced editions. By the end of World War II, membership numbered over a thousand and in 1947 a gallery, founded by Claude Rogers was established at 15 Lisle Street, Soho, London which flourished until the lease expired in 1971. In 1953 a new constitution abandoned its left-wing commitment, and it continued solely as an exhibiting society. Edward Bawden designed a business card for the AIA and its membership included Clifford Rowe, brothers Ronald and Percy Horton, Peggy Angus, Pearl Binder, James Boswell, Edward Ardizzone, Hans Feibusch and Misha Black the first Chairman. Other Suffolk artist or member exhibitors include Eileen Bell, Donnagh Mckenna, Tom Phillips, Kate Ponsonby, John Verney and Harold Wilfred Yates.
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