Malcolm Arbuthnot
Visual Artist
1877 – 1967
Who was Malcolm Arbuthnot?
Malcolm Arbuthnot was a pictorialist photographer and artist.
In 1907, he joined the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, an organisation founded in 1892 by Alfred Maskell and others dissatisfied with the ethos of the Royal Photographic Society exhibitions, with the aim to promote naturalistic and aesthetic photography as an independent art.
From 1914, Arbuthnot ran a portrait studio in London's New Bond Street, in the early 20th century photographing many celebrities including the actress Lillah McCarthy, the pianist Harriet Cohen and the poet Robert Nichols. His studio, along with many of his works, was destroyed in a fire. He was a friend of George Bernard Shaw.
Also in 1914, he was one of the signatories - the only photographer - to the manifesto of the Vorticism movement published in the first issue of the literary magazine BLAST.
He combined his interests in photography and art by using gum and oil pigment processes, after joining the Linked Ring making increasingly controversial anti-naturalistic gum prints.
After World War I, he gave up photography in favour of painting, working in oils, watercolours and gouaches.
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- Born
- 1877
Cobham - Spouses
- Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Died
- 1967
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on July 23, 2013
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