ST IVES SOCIETY OF ARTISTS
St Ives Society of Artists was formed by members of the St Ives Arts Club in 1927 after a meeting held the previous year when a proposal was put forward by George Fagan Bradshaw (1887-1960) and Herbert Truman (1883-1957) that a society be established to further the interests and promote the work of the many artists living in the St Ives area of Cornwall. No. 5 Porthmeor Studios, formerly those of Albert Julius Olsson (1864-1942), were purchased as an exhibiting gallery. Amonst those who agreed to become honorary members of this new Society were Adrian Durham Stokes (1902-1972), John Alfred Arnesby Brown, Moffat Peter Lindner (1852-1949), Albert Julius Olsson (1864-1942), Algernon Mayow Talmage and Stanhope Alexander Forbes (1857-1947) with Lindner being elected the first President. At the time of the Second World War and the arrival of the modernist's when friction developed between them and the traditionalist members and in 1949 resulted in a split and the formation by the modernists of the Crypt Group, later to become the Penwith Society. The St Ives Society holds an annual exhibition in the old Mariners Church, with the Crypt Group using the Crypt of the same church. Its galleries are open to visitors from March to November and over the Christmas period. Other Suffolk artists associated with the St Ives Society of Artists include David Cox, Phyllis Mary Pulling, Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird, George Edgar Treweek and John Millar Watt.
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