90:. What concerned them was being simply painters, said the critic Robert Ayre. who spoke elsewhere of their honesty of purpose. The group had a serious concern with the art of painting and took pleasure in familiar life as a jumping-off place, wrote the same critic. It was an informal fellowship but the members had similarities of views on fundamentals such as an openness to European art. But by 1950 in a show at the
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