Artistic Collapse in the Reign of Victoria (Art Workers Guild), 1935

End Date: 18 October 1935

Type: Lecture and discussion

Description: G. Val Myer gave 'provocative' paper and showed slides, followed by Vernon Compton. C. R. Ashbee spoke post-interval, followed by H. Speed, A. J. Penty, L. D. Luard, M. O'Gorman, A. Miller, F. Emanuel, D. Braddell, J. H. Amshewitz and Williamson. Gillick provided concluding comments (Fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1936, p. 13).

Policy: 'Founded in 1883, with the object of bringing into closer union the workers in various arts and crafts - architects, painters, designers of all kinds, sculptors and wood-carvers, metal-workers, goldsmiths, and many others - chiefly by evening meetings and discussions on different lines and methods in art. 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

'Artistic Collapse in the Reign of Victoria (Art Workers Guild), 1935', 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_1220627219, accessed 22 Mar 2023]