Great Bardfield Artists

Great Bardfield Artists

The Great Bardfield Artists were a community of artists who lived in Great Bardfield, a village in north west Essex, England, during the middle years of the 20th century.

The principal artists who lived there between 1930 and 1970 were John Aldridge Royal Academy
RA
, Edward Bawden, George Chapman, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Audrey Cruddas, Walter Hoyle, Eric Ravilious, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Kenneth Rowntree and Marianne Straub. Other artists associated with the group include Duffy Ayers, Bernard Cheese, Tirzah Garwood, Joan Glass, David Low and Laurence Scarfe. Great Bardfield Artists were diverse in style but shared a love for figurative art, making the group distinct from the better known St Ives art community in Cornwall, who, after the war, were chiefly dominated by abstractionists.

During the 1950s the Great Bardfield Artists organised a series of large ‘open house’ exhibitions which attracted national and international press attention. Positive reviews and the novelty of viewing modernist art works in the artists own homes led to thousands visiting the remote village during the summer exhibitions of 1954, 1955 and 1958. As well as these large shows the Great Bardfield Artists held exhibitions of their work in Cambridge (1956) and Bristol (1959). The artists also organised a multi-city tour of England and Ireland during 1957 & 1958. The early 1960s saw the majority of the Great Bardfield artists leave the village.

Legacy

In 1985 the Fry Art Gallery at Saffron Walden, Essex was established with the expressed aim of highlighting the paintings, prints, wallpapers, books, fabrics and ceramics made by the Great Bardfield art community between 1930 and 1970. Many of the artists mentioned above have had exhibitions at the Fry Art Gallery and elsewhere.

References

* Colin MacInnes, ‘Introduction’, "Great Bardfield Artists", W. S. Cowell, Ipswich, c.1957
* Martin Salisbury, "Artists at the Fry: Art and Design in the North West Essex Collection", Ruskin Press, Cambridge, 2003
* W. J. Strachan, ‘The Artists of Great Bardfield’, "Studio", March 1958

External links

http://www.fryartgallery.org/


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