London’s Women Artists, 1900–1914 by Mengting Yu

Author:Mengting Yu
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789811557057
Publisher: Springer Singapore

A further split can then be observed between students who remained loyal to the ethos of the NEAC, which clearly no longer seemed quite so “New,” and those who became associated with exhibition societies such as Rutter’s Allied Artists’ Association, the Bloomsbury Group, and Fry’s Omega Workshop, at which Vanessa Bell was the director and ex-Slade students such as Barbara Hiles, Dora Carrington, and Dorothy Brett showed an interest. From another point of view, the sharp increase of women non-member exhibitors also suggests that between 1910 and 1914, the NEAC had won the trust and appreciation of women artists who considered it a relatively tolerant platform.

While the New English Art Club was certainly open-minded regarding women as potential exhibitors, it must be mentioned that no women artists were elected as NEAC officers throughout the period 1910–1914. When compared with the WIAC and the AAA, the NEAC was less democratic and being criticized as “a male-run and male dominated exhibiting group” in which women had only “a token role in the decision-making process of the Club” (Deepwell, 2010, pp. 138–139). Around the same time, fewer female students enrolled at the Slade between 1900 and 1914 exhibited with the NEAC in 1905–1914. Some, such as Anna Airy, Essil Elmslie, Elsie McNaught, and Dorothy Stevens continued to exhibit there, but others sought alternative venues for more opportunities, such as the London Group. There were now home-grown exhibition groups and societies that allowed women’s participation in hanging committees, had abandoned restrictive jury systems (specifically the AAA, founded in 1908), even excluded men entirely in the case of the WIAC (1900), as well as other more radical movements that were emerging. Before long, the London Group would include members such as Thérèse Lessore, and as like the Vorticist Group would count among its members Jessica Dismorr and Helen Saunders.Table 4.3NEAC women members and their works of art in NEAC exhibitions between 1910 and 1914

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