Editing David Bomberg (section)

==Early years==
[[File:DavidBomberg-SelfPortrait19.png|thumb|''Self-Portrait'' (1931), charcoal and wash.]]
David Bomberg was born in the [[Lee Bank]] area of [[Birmingham]] on 5 December 1890.<ref name="Hyman">[http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/biography/80/david_bomberg.html "David Bomberg"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140202214635/http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/biography/80/david_bomberg.html |date=2 February 2014 }} Retrieved 29 January 2014.</ref> He was the seventh of eleven children of a [[Poland|Polish]] [[Jewish]] immigrant leatherworker, Abraham, and his wife Rebecca.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://heni.com/talks/the-outsider-genius-david-bombergs-self-portraits|author=Richard Cork|title=The Outsider Genius: David Bomberg’s Self-Portraits|work=HENI Talks}}</ref>  He was Orthodox but she less so and supported David's painting ambitions.<ref name="JewishQ">[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0449010X.1987.10703750?journalCode=rjeq20 "David Bomberg: an East End childhood"] ''www.tandfonline.com''{{dead link|date=November 2016|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> In 1895, his family moved to [[Whitechapel]] in the [[East End of London]] where he was to spend the rest of his childhood.<ref name="dnb">{{cite encyclopedia|last=Cork|first=Richard|author-link= Richard Cork|encyclopedia=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|title=Bomberg, David Garshen (1890–1957)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/37206|access-date=2008-01-18|edition=Online|date= May 2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/37206}}</ref>

After studying art at [[City and Guilds]], Bomberg returned to Birmingham to train as a [[lithography|lithographer]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.search.digital-ladywood.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=9109 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721040538/http://www.search.digital-ladywood.org.uk/engine/resource/default.asp?resource=9109 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-07-21 |title=The artist David Bomberg |access-date=2008-01-19 |work=Digital Ladywood }}</ref> but quit to study under [[Walter Sickert]] at [[Westminster School of Art]] from 1908 to 1910. Sickert's emphasis on the study of form and the representation of the "gross material facts" of urban life were an important early influence on Bomberg,<ref name="abbothall">{{cite web|url=http://www.abbothall.org.uk/exhibitions/bomberg06.shtml |title=David Bomberg: Spirit in the Mass |access-date=2008-01-19 |last=Cork |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Cork |year=2006 |publisher=Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070924233127/http://www.abbothall.org.uk/exhibitions/bomberg06.shtml |archive-date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead}}</ref> alongside [[Roger Fry]]'s 1910 exhibition ''Manet and the Post-Impressionists'', where he first saw the work of [[Paul Cézanne]].<ref name="dnb" />

Bomberg's artistic studies had involved considerable financial hardship but in 1911, with the help of [[John Singer Sargent]] and the [[Jewish Education Aid Society]], he was able to attain a place at the [[Slade School of Art]].<ref name="tate">{{cite web|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=777&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio|title=David Bomberg|access-date=2008-01-18|last=Cork|first=Richard|author-link=Richard Cork|publisher=Tate|archive-date=22 June 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080622142242/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=777&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio|url-status=dead}}</ref>