Malcolm Arbuthnot
Malcolm Arbuthnot(bornMalcolm Lewin Stockdale Parsons,1877,Cobham, Surrey– died 27 March 1967) was apictorialistphotographer and artist. In his teenage years he was a keen cyclist, who participated in renowned endurance events like the Bath Road Cycling Club's 100 miles race.[1]
In 1907, he joined theBrotherhood of the Linked Ring,an organisation founded in 1892 by Alfred Maskell and others dissatisfied with the ethos of theRoyal Photographic Societyexhibitions, with the aim to promote naturalistic and aesthetic photography as an independent art.[2][3]
From 1914, Arbuthnot ran a portrait studio in London'sNew Bond Street,in the early 20th century photographing many celebrities including the actressLillah McCarthy,the pianistHarriet Cohenand the poetRobert Nichols.His studio, along with many of his works, was destroyed in a fire.[4]He was a friend ofGeorge Bernard Shaw.[5]
Also in 1914, he was one of the signatories - the only photographer - to the manifesto of theVorticismmovement published in the first issue of theliterary magazineBLAST.[6]
He combined his interests in photography and art by using gum and oil pigment processes, after joining the Linked Ring making increasingly controversial anti-naturalisticgum prints.[7]
AfterWorld War I,he gave up photography in favour of painting, working in oils, watercolours andgouaches.[4]
He married twice, and had numerous adopted children.[8]His first marriage to Florence Emily Goold ( "Daisy" ) ended in divorce following her adultery with the poetJohn Gould Fletcher,whom she later married. (The settlement from Fletcher for her upkeep was instrumental in Arbuthnot financing the launch of his London studio).[9]His second wife Florence Annie Davison was the widow ofGeorge Davison,a millionaire through investments inKodak,and her inherited wealth enabled the couple to retire toJerseyin 1931.[6]
References
[edit]- ^"Bath Road 100 - 1896".CyclingRanking.
- ^Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839-1960,Helmut Gernsheim, Courier Dover Publications, 1981,ISBN0-486-26750-4
- ^"The Linked Ring" days,Malcolm Arbuthnot, The Photographic Journal, Royal Photographic Society, 1955
- ^abMalcolm Arbuthnot,National Portrait Gallery page
- ^"luminous-lint".
- ^abModernism: An Anthology,Lawrence S Rainey, Blackwell Publishing, 2005,ISBN0-631-20448-2
- ^John Taylor "Arbuthnot, Malcolm", The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, Ed. Robin Lenman, Oxford University Press, 2005, Oxford Reference Online
- ^Early British photography imitating artArchived2012-02-06 at theWayback Machine
- ^Fierce Solitude: A Life of John Gould Fletcher,Ben F Johnson, University of Arkansas Press, 1994,ISBN1-55728-351-6
External links
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Media related toMalcolm Arbuthnotat Wikimedia Commons
- Malcolm Arbuthnotprints at National Portrait Gallery
- Genealogy and picture[usurped]
