The Euston Road School was a group of English

England

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 painter

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...

s, active in London

London

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 between 1937 and 1939.

William Coldstream

William Coldstream

Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British realist painter and a long standing art teacher.-Biography:...

, Victor Pasmore

Victor Pasmore

Edwin John Victor Pasmore was a British artist and architect. He pioneered the development of abstract art in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s.-Biography:...

, Claude Rogers, Maurice Field and Graham Bell

Graham Bell (artist)

Graham Bell , was an artist and journalist.Painter of portraits, landscapes and still life. Bell first worked in a bank and on a farm before turning to art. He studied at the Durban Art School and held first one-man exhibition at the City Hall in Durban in 1931. Came to England 1931...

 set up a School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road

Euston Road

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 in 1937; other associated artists included Lawrence Gowing

Lawrence Gowing

Sir Lawrence Gowing was a British artist, writer, curator and teacher. Initially recognized as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and eventually, curator and museum trustee...

, Tom Carr, Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon

Peter Lanyon was a Cornish painter of landscapes leaning heavily towards abstraction. He also made constructions, pottery and collage....

 and Rodrigo Moynihan

Rodrigo Moynihan

Rodrigo Moynihan was an English painter.-Biography:Moynihan was born in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, in 1910. His Anglo-Spanish family moved to London in 1918 and then to Wisconsin...

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The painters emphasised naturalism

Naturalism (art)

Naturalism in art refers to the depiction of realistic objects in a natural setting. The Realism movement of the 19th century advocated naturalism in reaction to the stylized and idealized depictions of subjects in Romanticism, but many painters have adopted a similar approach over the centuries...

 and realism

Realism (visual arts)

Realism in the visual arts is a style that depicts the actuality of what the eyes can see. The term is used in different senses in art history; it may mean the same as illusionism, the representation of subjects with visual mimesis or verisimilitude, or may mean an emphasis on the actuality of...

, in contrast to the various schools of avant-garde

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art then prevalent. Many of the members were on the political left, and naturalism was seen as an attempt to make art more relevant and understandable to non-specialists.

Several exhibited at the Storran Gallery

Storran Gallery

The Storran Gallery was a fashionable avant-garde art gallery in London in the 1930s. In 1937 it was run by the prominent art critic Eardley Knollys with Ala Storey and the artist Frank Combes...

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