POST OFFICE ART CLUB
The Post Office Art Club of Great Britain was founded in 1906 by a small group of amateur painters and photographers from the Inland Section of the Postal Service. With little else but talent and enthusiasm, this handful of pioneers created an interest and cultural outlet in the arts for Post Office people which over the years has become a tradition. The newly formed club, with a membership of barely fifty, staged its first exhibition and 148 works were shown but by 1914 the membership was around 300 and at the inaugural exhibition of the Civil Service Arts Council at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the majority of the entries were from Post Office artists and the Post Office Art Club of Great Britain still plays a leading role in the Association of Civil Service Art Clubs. Its members have from time to time achieved the distinction of acceptance by the Royal Academy, the Royal Institute and also gained major awards at international exhibitions of postal art and the annual exhibition of the Post Office Art Club has become a noteworthy event in the calendar of London art shows, and it receives wide coverage in the national press. Suffolk artists who have exhibited with the Post Office Art Club include Frederick Marcus Arman