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Euston Road|ˈjuːstən ˈrəʊd|
The name of a road in London, site of a short-lived School of Drawing and Painting (1938–39), used attrib. or absol. to designate a group of English post-Impressionist realistic painters of the late 1930s or their type of art. Hence Euˈstonian, ˈEuston ˈRoader, a member or follower of this group.
1941Horizon May 349 The painters of the Euston Road school resemble each other in that they all paint almost entirely from nature. 1945P. Nash Let. 24 June in A. Bertram Nash (1955) ix. 264 The Euston Road boys, and their ruddy realism. 1945C. Bell V. Pasmore 14/1 The Euston Road School was founding. In that school Pasmore was to be the principal teacher; yet he was and is far from being a typical Eustonian. Euston Road was a call to order and an antidote to the sensationalism and amateurism of the school of Paris. 1959Listener 3 Dec. 981/3 The Euston Roaders owed a little to Tonks. |