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Description: | London was not a fashionable subject for artists in the early 20th century, but the artist C R W Nevinson was fascinated by the detail of the City's streets. This etching captures the run-down, slightly sinister character of Soho's narrow lanes and courts.
Nevinson had come to know Soho well during his time as a student at the Slade in the years before the First World War. He was one of a gang of art students known as 'the Slade Coster gang, because we mostly wore black jerseys, scarlet mufflers, and black caps or hats .... We were the terror of Soho and violent participants, for the mere love of a row, at such places as the anti-vivisectionist demonstrations .... I could not mention the number of occasions on which the crowd turned on our gang and pursued us up Greek Street and round the Palace Theatre. They were usually accentuated by a frenzy of patriotism, as the eccentricity of our clothes proved we were dirty foreigners. Why they should have felt like that in Soho, of all places, heaven only knows.' | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Museum of London | Rights holder: | Bridgeman Copyright Service | Subjects: | Cityscape Art and Design | Temporal: | 1920-1925 | Source: | Museum of London | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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