Minutes of the Fourth London Group Meeting 29 November 1913
Minutes of the Fourth London Group Meeting 29 November 1913
Typescript, by James Bolivar Manson (1879-1945)
Tate Archive TGA 806/10/6
© Estate of James Bolivar Manson
Minutes of the Fourth London Group Meeting 29 November 1913
Typescript, by James Bolivar Manson (1879-1945)
Tate Archive TGA 806/10/6
© Estate of James Bolivar Manson
The fourth London Group meeting predominantly concerned election procedures. It was decided that ‘one adverse vote should cancel one favourable vote and that to secure election a member must finally receive the votes of at least half the total number of members of the Group’. Owing to the divergent artistic allegiances of the various members, however, when an election took place at the next meeting on 6 December no one was elected. It was then decided that a candidate could be elected by only one third of the total number of members rather than half (TGA 806/10/6). For minutes of previous meetings, see TGA 806/10/6, TGA 806/10/6 and TGA 806/10/6.
Wendy Baron, Perfect Moderns: A History of the Camden Town Group, Aldershot and Vermont 2000, pp.65–6.
Transcript
[Typescript with some handwritten corrections:]
THE LONDON GROUP
Meeting 29th Nov. 1913
THE LONDON GROUP
Meeting 29th Nov. 1913
Present
Walter Sickert (in the chair)
A.H. Hudson C. Ginner
E. Sands Renee Finch
H. Gilman W. Ratcliffe
W. Bayes H. Sund
H. Squire S.F. Gore
E.A. Wadsworth R.P. Bevan
P.W. Lewis C. Hamilton
C.R. Nevinson J.B. Manson
It was Resolved that
in the election of members one adverse vote
should cancel one favourable vote and that to
secure election a member must finally receive
the votes of at least half the total number of
members of the Group.
Walter Sickert (in the chair)
A.H. Hudson C. Ginner
E. Sands Renee Finch
H. Gilman W. Ratcliffe
W. Bayes H. Sund
H. Squire S.F. Gore
E.A. Wadsworth R.P. Bevan
P.W. Lewis C. Hamilton
C.R. Nevinson J.B. Manson
It was Resolved that
in the election of members one adverse vote
should cancel one favourable vote and that to
secure election a member must finally receive
the votes of at least half the total number of
members of the Group.
That the election of members take place on the
first Saturday in every month.
first Saturday in every month.
That a Finance Committee be appointed to consist of
R.P. Bevan, C. Ginner and H. Sund.
R.P. Bevan, C. Ginner and H. Sund.
That the names of Candidates for membership be posted
immediately after each election.
immediately after each election.
That for the purposes of the election on Dec 6th,
the names of candidates which had been posted only
for three weeks should be considered on this occasion
alone, to have been posted for the full month.
The question of a solicitor was raised and it was resolved that the agreement with Messrs Marchant should be looked at by a solicitor named by Mr Sickert, until this question is settled.
It was agreed to hold an exhibition with the Goupil Gallery in March 1914 and again in March 1915, the upstair rooms on the first floor having been offered for that purpose and that The President should make arrangements for a written agreement with Messrs Marchant to that effect. The question of an Autumn Exhibition at the same gallery was discussed.
the names of candidates which had been posted only
for three weeks should be considered on this occasion
alone, to have been posted for the full month.
The question of a solicitor was raised and it was resolved that the agreement with Messrs Marchant should be looked at by a solicitor named by Mr Sickert, until this question is settled.
It was agreed to hold an exhibition with the Goupil Gallery in March 1914 and again in March 1915, the upstair rooms on the first floor having been offered for that purpose and that The President should make arrangements for a written agreement with Messrs Marchant to that effect. The question of an Autumn Exhibition at the same gallery was discussed.
How to cite
Minutes of the Fourth London Group Meeting, 29 November 1913, in Helena Bonett, Ysanne Holt, Jennifer Mundy (eds.), The Camden Town Group in Context, Tate Research Publication, May 2012, https://www