The Camden Town Group in Context

John Doman Turner became involved with the Camden Town Group through his friendship with Spencer Gore, who taught him in a series of thirty letters from 1908 to 1913. Doman Turner was shy and unsure of his abilities, however, which probably led him to resign his membership of the London Group soon after it was formed on 27 November 1913 (TGA 806/10/6). Shortly afterwards Gore died and Doman Turner did not maintain close ties with many of the group. In this letter Doman Turner requests the return of some of his catalogues and for Manson, who was then Director of the Tate Gallery, to ‘kindly remember me to my artistic friends’. See also TGA 806/1/927, TGA 806/10/6 and TGA 806/10/6.