Editing Vorticism (section)

== Group X ==
[[File:Poster for the Group X exhibition 26 March – 24 April 1920.jpg|thumb|120x160px|right|Poster for the Group X exhibition, 1920]]
In the post-war years it was difficult for artists to receive patronage and to secure sales. Nevertheless, Lewis, Wadsworth, Roberts and Atkinson all had one-man shows by the early 1920s – each artist navigating his own path between modernism and potentially more saleable recognisable subjects.<ref>Wadsworth – Adelphi Gallery, March 1919; Lewis  – 'Guns', Goupil Gallery,  February 1919; Roberts – Chenil Gallery, November 1923; and Atkinson – 'Abstract Sculpture and Painting', Eldar Gallery, May 1921.</ref> Lewis organised one more group show, in 1920 at the Mansard Gallery, bringing together ten artists under the banner '[[Group X]]'.<ref>Group X exhibited at the Mansard Gallery in Heal's & Son, Tottenham Court Road, London, from 26 March to 24 April 1920.</ref> Now, however, there was little attempt to unify the artists's contributions beyond Lewis's belief that 'the experiments [by artists] undertaken all over Europe during the last ten years should .... not be lightly abandoned.'<ref>Wyndham Lewis, 'Introduction', in  Group X exhibition catalogue, 1920.</ref> The diversity of styles on display, for example, included four self-portraits by Lewis, while Roberts exhibited four quite radical works in his evolving 'Cubist' style.<ref>''Athletes Exercising in a Gymnasium'', ''The Wedding'', ''The Auction Room'' and ''The Cockneys'' – see 'William Roberts: Catalogue raisonné' available at http://www.englishcubist.co.uk/catchron.html.</ref> Six of the Group X artists had been in the 'Vorticist' group – Dismorr, Etchells, Hamilton, Lewis, Roberts and Wadsworth – and they were joined by the sculptor [[Frank Dobson (sculptor)]], the painter [[Charles Ginner]], the American graphic designer [[Edward McKnight Kauffer]], and the painter John Turnbull. The exhibition was mainly seen as a failure to 'rekindle a flame of adventure'.<ref>Andrew Gibbon Williams, ''William Roberts: An English Cubist'' (Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2004), pp. 52–5.</ref>