Cumberland Market Group

[2] They defined what they did as exploring the shapes and colours of daily life (in particular those of north-west London), while also paying attention to their proper disposition compositionally and maintaining sensitivity to the medium of paint itself as key to an expressive image; the strong emphasis on natural observation was a differentiation from the Camden Town Group.

The group was subsequently enlarged by the addition of the American artist Edward McKnight Kauffer[5] and by Christopher Nevinson, but it held no further formal exhibitions.

[2] Goupil’s continued to be of help by allowing the group's Saturday afternoon "At Homes" to be moved to their Grey Room.

[2] In 1921 Bevan organised, with Ginner, an exhibition of Un Groupe de Peintres Anglais Modernes at the Galerie Druet in Paris to present their own work and that of Stanislawa de Karlowska, Gilman, and the next generation artists E.M. O'Rourke Dickey, McKnight Kauffer, John Nash, Edward Wadsworth, William Roberts and Ethelbert White.

A Countryman in Town: Robert Bevan and the Cumberland Market Group was held at Southampton City Art Gallery, 26 September – 14 December 2008.