ABSTRACT
Lewis (1882-1957), painter, novelist and critic, was a student at the Slade School between 1898 and 1901. In his subsequent travels on the Continent he became familiar with developments in French art and in 1911 became, together with Sickert, Gore and others, a founder member of the Camden Town Group and later the London Group. The exhibition of English Post-Impressionists, Cubists and Others at the Brighton art gallery between December 1913 and January 1914 was divided into two sections. The catalogue introduction to the more conservative Camden Town painting was written by J.B. Manson and included painting by Ginner, Bevan, Gore, Gilman, Sickert, Pissarro, Sands, John and Paul Nash, Drummond, Bayes and others. Wyndham Lewis wrote the introduction to the second section (later published in The Egoist) which included the work of Epstein, Hamilton, Wadsworth, Etchells, Bomberg, Nevinson and Lewis himself.
