Art & Letters

Edited by the art critic Frank Rutter (1876-1937) and the painters Charles Ginner and Harold Gilman the magazine was intended for launch in the autumn of 1914 but publication was delayed by the outbreak of World War I. It eventually made its appearance in July 1917 and ceased with the Spring 1920 issue. It was a quarterly survey of what was then considered the avant-garde in British art and literature. In addition to Rutter, Ginner and Gilman, contributors included Herbert Read, Osbert, Sacheverell and Edith Sitwell, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, A.E. Housman, Isaac Rosenberg, Ronald Firbank, Katherine Mansfield, Aldus Huxley. Artists whose work is illustrated included E. McKnight Kauffer, Gaudier-Brzeska, Paul Nash, Walter Sickert, Nina Hamnett, Jacob Kramer, Edward Wadsworth, John Nash, and Jacob Epstein.