The 'East London Group'

The East London Group was one of the most innovative art movements to have flourished in the UK in the first half of the Twentieth Century. As a movement it bubbled up organically from classes at the Bow & Bromley Evening Institute in East London in the early 1920s, supported by an inspirational teacher John Cooper. A forerunner of the group, the East London Arts Club exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1928 with members work soon being shown at the National Gallery Millbank (now the Tate). The ELG were regular exhibitors at the prestigious Lefevre Galleries in the West End throughout the Thirties.

Our focus on Chimni is the work undertaken by ELG members to depict houses and street scenes. For a wider appreciation of the East London Group we would recommend the East London Group Website

ELG Paintings of Houses

A celebration of art projects where the house is both the subject and the canvas.

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  End of terrace Georgian Terraced Houses 'Adelaide Road, Hampstead, London' by Henry Silk

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  Georgian Terraced Houses depicted in 'Coborn Street, Bow' by Harold Steggles

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  'Old Houses, Bow' by Grace Oscroft 1934

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  'Old Houses, Bethnal Green by Walter Steggles

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  'Oast Houses by John Cooper 1934

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  ‘Prefabs’ by Albert Turpin

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  ‘Heybridge’ by Elwin Hawthorne of the from 1938 was actually the lock-keeper's cottage on the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation at Heybridge

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  ‘The Mill’ by Phyllis Bray from 1933 which was painted at Chalford, in the Cotswolds.

ELG Paintings of Shops & Flats

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  'Farringdon Road' Cecil Osborne 1930

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  'Cumberland Market' by Elvin Hawthorne

Other ELG Paintings of Buildings

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  'Marian Square, Hackney' by Albert Turpin

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  'The Red Hut' by Harold Steggles 1931

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  ‘Rayleigh Mount’ by Walter Steggles 1936

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  The Mill at Upminster by Lilian Hawthorn (nee Leahy).

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  Cluddeley Mill, Wrockwardine, Shropshire by Harold Steggles.

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  A watercolour sketch for "The Martello Tower, Aldeburgh" by Walter Steggles.

Other Interesting Web Sites

The East London Group Website http://www.eastlondongroup.co.uk

See Also In Chimni

ChimniWiki Page: Houses As Art

ChimniWiki Page: Red Houses

ChimniWiki Page: Blue Houses

ChimniWiki Page: Black Houses

References

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