Society of Graver-Printmakers in Colour

This group was established in February 1909 by a group of artists whose founder members included Théodore Roussel, Thomas Austen Brown, John Dickson Batten, Sydney Lee and William Lee Hankey. Later members included Morley Fletcher, Frederick Marriott, Alfred Hartley, William Giles, Allen Seaby, John Platt, for many years The Society's President, Helen Stevenson, Elyse Lord, Loxton Knight and others. One of the fundamental principles of the organisation was that all works should not only be the invention of the artist but that all proofs should be guaranteed printed in colour by the artist, and not coloured or completed by hand after printing. Thus the Society rationale was simply the exhibiting of colour prints and not coloured prints.

Early exhibitions were staged at the gallery of Manzi, Joyant & Co. whose premises were later taken over by the Goupil Gallery in Bedford Street, London. After World War I and into the 1920's exhibitions were held at the Bromhead Gallery owned and run by the eponymous Harold Watts Bromhead (1869-1943) and located in London's, Cork Street. The Gallery which appears to have specialised in the work of Society members was established c. 1926 but it is not known when it ceased to function. It was still running in 1929.

Number of Artists referenced: 36