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Robert Bevan: From Gauguin to Camden Town
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Title: Robert Bevan: from Gauguin to Camden Town Author: Frances Stenlake List price: £25.00 ISBN: 978 0 906290 92 7 Description: Robert Bevan, friend of Gauguin from his stay at Pont-Aven in Brittany in the early 1890’s and linked with the avant-garde British artists working in London in the years before World War I, became a founder member of the Camden Town Group and the London Group. In 1915, with Gilman, Ginner, John Nash and Nevinson, he formed the Cumberland Market Group. Best known for his studies of London cab-yard and horse-sale scenes, after his marriage to Stanislawa de Karlowska he spent summers in Poland. Bevan’s retiring disposition and ineffectual marketing of his work during his lifetime meant that his reputation as a painter was slow to grow. It was only after his death that many of his works found their way into public collections, and a strong market developed among private collectors. Author: Frances Stenlake was educated at St. Andrews University and at Edinburgh University. Whilst working for West Sussex County Council as a teacher of English Literature and History of Art, she began researching and lecturing on Robert Bevan. From this she wrote From Cuckfield to Camden Town, the story of artist Robert Bevan. Frances’ more recent writings on Bevan include writing a biographical essay for an exhibition at Southampton City Art Gallery, Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group for December 2008.
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