Northern Art Workers' Guild
Foundation date: 1896
Active: 1896 - 1911
Function: Art guild
History or description: The Northern Art Workers' Guild was founded in 1896. It was reported in 'The Studio' that 'Mr. Walter Crane recently addressed, at Manchester, a meeting convened for the purpose of forming an Association of Art-workers, to be called "The Northern Art-workers' Guild." A committee was appointed, and Messrs. H. C. D. Charlton and Edgar Wood consented to act as the honorary secretaries of the new Guild.' ('The Studio’ August 1896 p.156)
The Guild's first major exhibition, showing work by members and entitled ‘Arts & Crafts’ was held at the City Art Gallery, Manchester in September-October 1898. ('The Studio', September 1898, p. 284). The poster for the exhibition, designed by Elizabeth Ellen Houghton (1853-1922), was illustrated in ‘The Studio’ in November 1898, p.126. A second exhibition of work by Guild members was mounted at the City Art Gallery, Manchester in 1903.
This record includes information submitted by Chris Mees, Editor of the online database, Arts: Search.
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Organized Exhibits of the Northern Art Workers' Guild (Manchester), 1911
Associated People
Members included Thomas Stirling Lee
1911 (Circa)
Members included John Jarvis Millson
1911 (Circa)
Members included Alfred Ernest Bramley
1911 (Circa)
Members included James Smithies
1911 (Circa)
Members included James Robert Cooper
1911 (Circa)
Members included Charles Henry Bishop
1911 (Circa)
Citing this record
'Northern Art Workers' Guild', 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/organization.php?id=msib5_1233586492, accessed 29 May 2023]
