Staithes Group Art
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Bewick Club & Cullercoats Artists
Bewick Club & Cullercoats Artists Information
The Bewick Club was conceived by members of the Newcastle Life School in the early 1880s. It was named in honour of Thomas Bewick, the Newcastle engraver (1753 - 1828).Members of the Bewick Club painted in a range of differing styles, and the ones whose work is of interest to us are those who paint in the impressionist style favoured by Staithes artists. A number of members of the Club were also members of the Staithes Group and/or the Cullercoats Colony. The American artist, Winslow Homer, worked with the Cullercoats artists in a similar style.
We stock only pictures by members of the club who worked in a plein-air, Impressionist style.
Work in stock at present includes examples by: John Atkinson, John William Gilroy, Ralph Hedley, George Edward Horton, Robert Jobling and John Falconar Slater.
John Atkinson 1863 - 1924
We have many more sketches by John Atkinson than those featured here. He is one of the artists featured in the Staithes Group Centenary Catalogue.
Ralph Hedley R.B.A. 1848 - 1913
Ralph Hedley was also a member of the Staithes Group and his life and work is featured in the Centenary Catalogue.
George Edward Horton 1859 - 1950
George Horton, a member of the bewick Club and the Cullercoats Colony, was born in North Shields and, on leaving school became a delivery boy for his father, a butcher. His mother, bizarrely, asked him to leave home when she found him drawing an animal's skull. As he then decided to become a professional artist, having moved in with relatives, his mother's reaction did the art world a service! Horton exhibited widely in the North and moved to London in 1918. From the late 1890s he made regular trips to Holland. His work is very distinctive and has always been considered undervalued commercially. Hopefully the recent recognition and increase in value of works by the Staithes Group and linked Impressionist artists of the Bewick Club and Cullercoats Colony will lead to Horton's work receiving the acclaim it deserves.
Exhibited: FIN 52, GI 1, GOU 1, I 4, L 3, RA 6, RI, 4, RSA 9, and widely on Tyneside.
Thomas Swift Hutton 1860-1935
Hutton was born in Edinburgh and lived in Wavertree, Liverpool for a while before moving to Newcastle. He exhibited at major galleries throughout the British Isles.
Robert Jobling 1841 - 1923
Robert Jobling's life and work is featured in the Staithes Group Centenary Catalogue. Much of Jobling's Staithes Group period work shows the influence of Winslow Homer's subject matter on his compositions which Jobling would have seen when they were both painting in Cullercoats. Jobling interprets this in style of his own.
We are always interested in buying good examples by Rober Jobling.
John Falconar Slater 1857 - 1937
John Falconar Slater was a Northumbrian artist who exhibited prolifically in his own area. Initially, however, he worked as a bookeeper for his father's corn mill and then ran a store in the diamond fields of South Africa before turning to art as a career. He was a member of the Bewick Club and President of the North East Art Club, based in Whitley Bay, and also a member of the Cullercoats Colony. He could be one of the best Northern Impressionist artists, and was expert at depicting the many moods of the North Sea. The last twelve years of his life were spent in Cullercoats.
Exhibited: L. 5, M. 1, R.A. 22 and widely on Tyneside.
Staithes Group Art
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Bewick Club & Cullercoats Artists
