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).
Participants
Speaker Ernest George Gillick
Speaker Alec (Alexander) Miller
Speaker Charles Robert Ashbee
Speaker Arthur Joseph Penty
Speaker Harold Speed
Sources
The fifty-second annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1936
1936
p. 13
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 24 Sep 2023]
