New Art in The New Age:

What was Modern? (1910-1914)

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Map of Soho, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury (Peter Brooker; used with permission of the author)

Exhibitions and The New Age

Located at 38 Cursitor Street off the Chancery Lane in Holborn, The New Age’s offices were a short distance from the galleries, cafés, and bookstores where the artists and literati discussed in its pages exhibited and created their work. Their activities took place in a relatively circumscribed space – a visitor to London would have to walk less than half a mile to travel from The New Age offices to most of the galleries frequented by its art critics.

The aesthetic debates presented in The New Age represented a contest for control over local gallery space, even as their participants claimed the universal significance of their theories. Discussions of art in The New Age make reference almost exclusively to paintings, sculpture and even drawings that were being shown in London at the time.

Most notably, this is the case with Sickert. He held two one-man drawing shows at the small Carfax Gallery, housed in a small basement in Bury Street, St. James, in the months prior to and during the time his work was reproduced in The New Age. Additional Sickert drawings displayed in the magazine were shown at the Carfax Gallery with the Camden Town Group. The inclusion of Sickert’s drawings in The New Age lent the artist extra publicity for these shows.

Other correlations exist as well. Russolo’s La Revolté, presented in the series of abstract paintings edited by Carter, was featured prominently at the Exhibition of Italian Futurist Painters that opened less than a week later at the nearby Sackville Gallery. Similarly, Epstein’s Oscar Wilde Memorial was on display in his central London studio at the time that The New Age printed its photograph, and his drawing, Rock Drill, appeared while a major show of his sculpture and drawings was taking place at the Twenty-One Gallery. T.E. Hulme also mentions that artists included in the “Contemporary Drawings” series were showing locally: he discusses the London Group Show where Nevinson’s The Chauffeur and Wadsworth’s Farmyard were exhibited shortly after or contemporaneously with their appearances in The New Age.

New Art in The New Age:	What was Modern? (1910-1914)
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Map of Soho, Fitzrovia and Bloomsbury (Peter Brooker; used with permission of the author)	Exhibitions and The New Age Located at 38 Cursitor Street off the Chancery Lane in Holborn, The New Age’s offices were a short distance from the galleries, cafés, and bookstores where the artists and literati discussed in its pages exhibited and created their work. Their activities took place in a relatively circumscribed space – a visitor to London would have to walk less than half a mile to travel from The New Age offices to most of the galleries frequented by its art critics. The aesthetic debates presented in The New Age represented a contest for control over local gallery space, even as their participants claimed the universal significance of their theories. Discussions of art in The New Age make reference almost exclusively to paintings, sculpture and even drawings that were being shown in London at the time. Most notably, this is the case with Sickert. He held two one-man drawing shows at the small Carfax Gallery, housed in a small basement in Bury Street, St. James, in the months prior to and during the time his work was reproduced in The New Age. Additional Sickert drawings displayed in the magazine were shown at the Carfax Gallery with the Camden Town Group. The inclusion of Sickert’s drawings in The New Age lent the artist extra publicity for these shows. Other correlations exist as well. Russolo’s La Revolté, presented in the series of abstract paintings edited by Carter, was featured prominently at the Exhibition of Italian Futurist Painters that opened less than a week later at the nearby Sackville Gallery. Similarly, Epstein’s Oscar Wilde Memorial was on display in his central London studio at the time that The New Age printed its photograph, and his drawing, Rock Drill, appeared while a major show of his sculpture and drawings was taking place at the Twenty-One Gallery. T.E. Hulme also mentions that artists included in the “Contemporary Drawings” series were showing locally: he discusses the London Group Show where Nevinson’s The Chauffeur and Wadsworth’s Farmyard were exhibited shortly after or contemporaneously with their appearances in The New Age.
John Nicholas Brown Center Carriage House Gallery \| Exhibition: Sept. 29—Oct. 30, 2005 47 Power St \| Providence, RI Mon—Fri 1—4pm \| Phone: 401.863.1177	This exhibit is made possible with support from the Cogut Center for the Humanities, the John Nicholas Brown Center, and the Modernist Journals Project.