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Events relating to british_art
The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian
Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs the interior of Miss Cranston's Ingram Street Tea Rooms in Glasgow
Ebenezer Howard republishes his earlier book of 1898 as Garden Cities of Tomorrow
Augustus John meets his favourite subject Dorothy McNeill, to whom he gives the Gypsy name Dorelia
The English painter G.F. Watts is made a founding member of the Order of Merit
Charles Rennie Mackintosh completes the Willow Tea Rooms in Glasgow for Miss Cranston
Work begins on England's first garden city, at Letchworth, based on the theories of Ebenezer Howard
The American sculptor Jacob Epstein moves from New York to settle in London
Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts
The critic Roger Fry presents in London's Grafton Galleries an influential exhibition of Post-Impressionist art
The part-time English painter L.S. Lowry begins a lifetime career in a Manchester property company
Walter Sickert and other painters, sharing his preference for everyday subjects, adopt the name Camden Town Group
Walter Sickert paints Ennui, depicting a difficult or dreary moment in a marriage
Wyndham Lewis and others launch Vorticism with a new magazine, Blast
Jacob Epstein completes his sculpture The Rock Drill, the outstanding work of the Vorticist movement
Stanley Spencer joins the Royal Army Medical Corps, with whom he finds a wealth of subject matter
Eric Gill completes his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral
John Singer Sargent completes Gassed, a powerful image of one of the particular horrors of the recent war
The Japanese potter Shoji Hamada accompanies Bernard Leach on his return to England
On his return to Britain from the far east, Bernard Leach sets up a pottery studio in St Ives
Four Scottish Colourists (Cadell, Fergusson, Hunter, Peploe) exhibit together in Paris
English potter Michael Cardew sets up a studio at Winchcombe, in Gloucestershire
Stanley Spencer completes his large visionary canvas The Resurrection: Cookham
28-year old Staffordshire potter Clarice Cliff launches a range of highly coloured geometric designs that she calls Bizarre Ware
English typographer Eric Gill designs a type face without serifs, commissioned by Monotype and to be known as Gill Sans-Serif
