East London Group of Artists

the celebrated East London Group of Artists also ventured further afield in search of subject matter and today we preview a new exhibition which explores this aspect of their work. The East London Group of Artists – Out of the City opens at the Beecroft Gallery in Southend on 19th March and runs until 25th June.

Windy Day on Marine Parade, Southend by Brynhild Parker (courtesy of Beecroft Gallery)

Poole Harbour by Elwin Hawthorne, 1934

Thorpe Bay by Henry Silk, 1933

Tattingstone Wonder by Walter Steggles, 1937

Church at Cranham by Essex Lilian Leahy, 1934

Bungay by Harold Steggles, 1934

The Wharfe at Arthington Viaduct by John Cooper, mid- thirties

North Foreland Lighthouse by Elwin Hawthorne, 1931

Chesil Bank from Portland by Harold Steggles, 1938

The Quay, Appledore by Brynhild Parker, 1931

Essex Landscape by Harold Steggles, 1934

The Thames At Cookham by Walter Steggles, 1931

Essex Landscape by Harold Steggles, 1930

Felpham by Walter Steggles, 1936

Entrance to the Port by Brynhild Parker, 1938

Ilfracombe by Elwin Hawthorne, 1933

Alnwick by Harold Steggles, 1936

At Brighton by Cecil Osborne, 1936

The new enlarged edition of From Bow to Biennale: Artists of the East London Group by David Buckman can be ordered direct from the publisher Francis Boutle and copies are on sale in bookshops including Brick Lane Bookshop, Broadway Books, Newham Bookshop, Stoke Newington Bookshop and London Review Bookshop.