St. Ives School

The St Ives School refers to a group of artists living and working in the Cornish town of St Ives. The term is often used to refer to the 20th century groups which sprung up after the first Word War around such artists as Borlase Smart, however there was considerable artistic activity thre from the late 19th Century onwards.

The town became a magnet for artists following the extension to West Cornwall of the Great Western Railway in 1877.

Among others, Sydney Laurence and Alexandrina Dupre, (a fellow artist he had met in New York City), after marrying in May 1889, sailed for England to pass the summer on the scenic coast at St. Ives, where their stay in the fishing village and art colony eventually extended for nearly fifteen years.Albert Julius Olsson was an important figure in the St Ives school of artists where, from circa 1890 to 1912, despite having little or no formal artistic training himself, he taught alongside Louis Grier and later Algernon Talmage. The latter tutored Emily Carr during her studies at St Ives in England (1899-1905) when Talmage lived and worked in his studio (then called 'The Cabin', located on Westcotts Quay, St Ives).John Noble Barlow settled in St. Ives, Cornwall in 1892, although later, he had a studio in the Lamorna Valley, Cornwall. Thomas Millie Dow moved with his family to St Ives, Cornwall, in 1894, where Dow joined his friends and fellow painters Louis Grier and Lowell Dyer as members of the St Ives Art Club.

The Sloop Inn in St Ives, located on the wharf, was the favourite haunt of Victorian artists including Louis Grier. Many of his paintings hung there in earlier years.

In 1920 Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up a pottery in St Ives, creating a further international art connection for the town.

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