The London Sketch Club is a private members' club for artists working in the field of commercial graphic art, mainly for newspapers, periodicals, and books.
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| Formation | 1898 |
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| Founder | Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Cecil Aldin, Walter Churcher, Tom Browne |
| Type | Private members' club for artists |
| Headquarters | London, England |
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President | Mark Prizeman |
| Website | www |
History
editThe club was founded in 1898 by a breakaway group of members from the Langham Sketching Club, following a disagreement over whether to have hot or cold suppers after an evening's drawing. The founding members were Dudley Hardy, Phil May, Cecil Aldin, Walter Churcher, and Tom Browne. George Charles Haité was its first president.
A joint exhibition with the Langham Sketching Club was held at the Mall Galleries in 1976.[1]
For a while in the late 1970s, the Society of Strip Illustration held its monthly meetings at the Sketch Club.[2]
Clubhouse
editThe club relocated in 1903 from its original location to premises in Wells Street, off Oxford Street. In 1957, the club moved to 7 Dilke Street in Chelsea.
Members
edit- Salomon van Abbé
- Cecil Aldin
- H. M. Bateman
- James Bateman (artist)
- Arnold Beauvais
- Tom Browne (illustrator)
- Fred Buchanan
- René Bull
- Terence Cuneo
- George Charles Haité
- Edmund Dulac
- Dudley Hardy
- John Hassall (illustrator)
- Frederick Hamilton Jackson
- David Langdon
- Alfred Leete
- Horatio Joseph Lucas
- Phil May (caricaturist)
- Christopher Nevinson
- George Parlby
- Bertram Prance
- James Pryde
- Charles Robinson (illustrator)
- W. Heath Robinson
- Gyrth Russell
- Lance Thackeray
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "London Sketch Club | Artist Biographies". www.artbiogs.co.uk. Retrieved 27 December 2017.
- ^ "Page 45’s Bryan Talbot Interview," Page 45 website (April 2007). Retrieved Dec. 11, 2020.
Bibliography
edit- Philippe Kaenel (2005). Le métier d'illustrateur, 1830-1880: Rodolphe Töpffer, J-J Grandville, Gustave Doré (in French) (2 ed.). Librairie Droz. p. 543. ISBN 978-2-600-00531-9.
- The Pall Mall Gazette 2 April 1898