The Golden Names of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1922
End Date: 3 November 1922
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: A. Keen read paper about G. Horsely and E. Newton. H. A. Bone spoke on T. E. Harrison, J. Powell and T. R. Spence. Lethaby spoke on G. Horsely and E. Newton. J. Cooke spoke on Stirling Lee. Hawes Turner spoke on C. Holroyd. After interval S. Image and D. B. Cockrell spoke, J. Leighton 'referred briefly' to Archie MacGregor. F. W. Lawson exhibited some of his sketches of members and visitors at past Guild meetings. Townsend and L. A. Turner spoke of the late W. Aumonier, both alluding to E. Newton. Warren spoke of the late W. Aumonier too, and of Cleverley, A. H. Skipworth, Holroyd and Stirling Lee. F. V. Burridge spoke on F. Golding, F. E. Jackson on Holroyd and Newton, on C. C. Brewer and E. G. Hardy; Weir spoke on Sedding, Horsley, J. J. Stevenson and E. Gimson. Ricardo spoke on W. Marshall, C. E. Alwyn Carr on H. Arnold. Aumonier, Lessore and A. S. Hartrick each spoke on C. Furse. Eavestaff was the only member of the Junior Art Workers' Guild to speak; he was followed by F. W. Lawson on Broadbent, Eve, J. Belcher. G. E. Kruger Grey and L. A. Turner spoke of H. Stannus and R. Mullins. E. Jackson 'also had a few words to say'. Lastly, Warren spoke of Bentley. 'There was a small representative exhibition consisting chiefly of architectural designs by Ernest Newton and Gerald Horsley, wall-paper designs by Lewis F. Day, Walter Crane, Alan F. Vigers, and others, and of Bro. Lawson's sketches' (AWG Annual Report, 1922, pp. 9-10).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Citing this record
'The Golden Names of the Guild (Art Workers Guild), 1922', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib2_1218622706, accessed 29 May 2020]
