David Buckman July 11, 2018

David Buckman Spitalfields Life 20/12/2012 How is it that one of the most innovative, commercially successful, and – in its time – hugely publicized British art groups of the twentieth century became neglected? That was the case until my book From Bow to Biennale: Artists of the East London Group was published last month. During the writing of it, whenever I mentioned the Group to experts in this period, the response was usually – East London Group,…

Simon Tait

Simon Tait The London Magazine 01/08/2016 When David Buckman’s From Bow to Biennale, Artists of the East London Group was published in 2012 it was the result of nine years of research and shone a light on an unknown group of East End painters who briefly flourished for a decade across the twenties and thirties. They were amateurs, night school pupils of a messianic teacher called John Cooper. Their fame resounded briefly internationally, but then was forgotten.…