 33 Warwick Square, the former home of the Grosvenor School of Modern Art (scaffolded, centre) | |
| Active | 1925 (1925)–1940 (1940)[1] |
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| Founder | Iain Macnab |
| Location | , 51°29′23″N0°08′30″W / 51.4896°N 0.1418°W /51.4896; -0.1418 |
| Campus | 33 Warwick Square,Pimlico |
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TheGrosvenor School of Modern Art was a private Britishart school and, in its shortened form ("Grosvenor School"), the name of a brief British-Australian art movement.[2] It was founded in 1925 by the Scottishwood engraverIain Macnab in his house at 33 Warwick Square inPimlico, London.[1][3]: 31 From 1925 to 1930Claude Flight ran it with him, and also taughtlinocutting there; among his students wereSybil Andrews,Cyril Power,Lill Tschudi and William Greengrass.[4]: 400
The school had no formalcurriculum and students studied what and when they wished. There were day and evening courses:life classes, classes in composition and design, and classes on thehistory of Modern Art.Frank Rutter taught a course entitled "From Cézanne to Picasso".[3]: 31 Macnab's wife, the dancer Helen Wingrave, gave a dance course.[5]: 9 Though there was no formal curriculum, all students attended Claude Flight'slinocut classes.[6]
The Grosvenor School closed in 1940, merging with theHeatherley School of Fine Art.[7]
The school did much to revive interest inprintmaking in general, and particularly in the linocut, in the years between the Wars.[8] Artists associated with it have come to be known as the "Grosvenor School", and their work commands high prices.[9]
In June–September 2019, theDulwich Picture Gallery in London hosted the first major exhibition presenting solely the output of the Grosvenor School alumni in a public museum; it was also the first major exhibition outside Australia to have considerable examples of the works by the Australian alumniEthel Spowers,Dorrit Black and others.[10]
Among those who studied at the school were:
Spowers, Black and Syme became instrumental in organising exhibitions and promoting the school in Australia.[citation needed]
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