Cumberland Market Group

A group of practicing British artists formed by Robert Bevan, Harold Gilman and Charles Ginner in 1914. They were joined by other leading artists of the day, including John Nash, McKnight Kauffer and Christopher Nevinson. The name derived from meetings held at Bevan's studio in Cumberland Market. The group also convened at the Goupil Gallery where an exhibition of their work was mounted by William Marchant in the spring of 1915. Members deliberately adopted the style called "Neo-Realism", exploring the subject matter of daily life. Their intentions were proclaimed in Ginner’s contemporaneous manifesto "New Age" which was also used as the preface to Gilman and Ginner’s two-man exhibition in 1914. The group never officially disbanded but lapsed in about 1918. An exhibition "Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group" was held at the Southampton Art Gallery in the autumn of 2008.