Art Workers' Guild

The guild was not the first organisation to promote the unity of the arts. Two organisations, the Fifteen and St George's Art Society had existed previously, and the guild's founders came from the St George's Art Society. They were five young architects from Norman Shaw's office: W. R. Lethaby, Edward Prior, Ernest Newton, Mervyn Macartney and Gerald C. Horsley, plus metal worker W. A. S. Benson, designer Heywood Sumner, painter C. H. H. Macartney, sculptors Hamo Thornycroft and Edward Onslow Ford,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cZfrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22master+of+the+art+Workers%27+Guild%22+portraits|title=The Encyclopedia of the Victorian|author=Harriet Bridgeman, Elizabeth Drury|page=188|date=1975|publisher=Country Life |isbn=9780600331230}} and the architect John Belcher.{{cite web|url=https://victorianweb.org/art/institutions/awg.html|title=The Art Worker' s Guild|website=Victorian Web|access-date=3 August 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bloomsbury-project/institutions/art_workers_guild.htm|title=UCL Bloomsbury Project - Art Workers Guild|website=UCL|access-date=3 August 2021}} The motive for the guild's creation was the summer exhibition in 1883 at the Royal Academy of Arts, where the "mother of arts" were snubbed to two side walls in one gallery. Edward Prior wrote in November 1883, {{blockquote|Painters, Sculptors, and Architects are in danger of settling permanently into three distinct professions, oblivious of one another's aims. A Society is wanted to restore their former union with one another with a programme of cohesion such as the Royal Academy hardly now suggests, and which the Institute of British Architects has deliberately rejected.}}

Others were soon invited to join, including Fifteen members Lewis Foreman Day, George Blackall Simonds and J. D. Sedding, as well as architects Somers Clarke, John Thomas Micklethwaite, W. C. Marshall, Basil Champneys; painters Herbert Gustave Schmalz, Alfred Parsons, John McLure Hamilton, William R. Symonds and etcher Theodore Blake Wirgman. The first meeting took place on 18 January 1884 at Charing Cross Hotel with Belcher as chair, and after some debate agreed they would invite others "for promoting greater intercourse among the Arts". Several names were proposed, including Guild of Art by Benson, Guild of Associated Arts, Guild of Art Workers, The Art Workers and the Society of Art Workers. Prior combined the name ideas and put forward the Art Workers' Guild and wrote the Guilds prospectus.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gx4OEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Edward+prior%22+art+workers+guild+master&pg=PT162|title=Arts and Crafts Architecture: 'Beauty's Awakening'|author=Holder. J|date=2021|publisher=The Crowood Press |isbn=9781785007965}} The name and prospectus was agreed and the guild was formally created on 11 March and by its first formal annual meeting on 5 December 1884 it had grown to 56 members. The guild was based on the medieval trade guilds, with members called Brothers and its head called Master.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlKhCAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Edward+prior%22+art+workers+guild+master&pg=PT81|title=Encyclopedia of Interior Design|author=Banham.J|date=1997|page=63|publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781884964190}} Its first master was the sculptor, George Blackall Simonds.{{cite book|title=Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward Historical and Global Perspectives|author=Reva Wolf and Alisa Luxenberg|publisher=Bloomsbury|pages=203–226|date=2020|doi=10.5040/9781501337994.ch-009|s2cid=213063811}} In 1885, Walter Crane reiterated the guild's worries to the Fabian Society, {{blockquote|Artistic expression had only reached its noblest and most beautiful results under collective condition of the arts, at all events when all art was decorative, and all were allied to architecture.}}

The guild organised talks, lectures, demonstrations and meetings to bring unity of the arts to its members including guest speakers such as Lucien Pissarro in 1891.{{cite book|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/camden-town-group/lucien-pissarro-r1105344|title=The Camden Town Group in Context|website=The Tate|date=May 2012|isbn=9781849763851|access-date=22 October 2021|last1=(Gallery)|first1=Tate Britain}} Sir Edwin Lutyens was first invited as a guest in 1892 and recalled:{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/design-dreamtime-in-dieppe-1195876.html|title=Design: Dreamtime in Dieppe|author=Powers. A|newspaper=The Independent|date=3 September 1998}} {{blockquote|then, no one knew me and those few that did patronised or snubbed me}} but he joined later and admired the freedom to argue passionately and: {{blockquote|the way those fellows lay into each other}} By 1895 the guild had 195 members and included such luminaries as William Morris and Thomas Graham Jackson. At that year's annual general meeting, the elected Master Heywood Sumner declared to the members: {{blockquote|the authorities are beginning to recognise that if you want a good man for a public post connected with the Arts, the Art Workers' Guild is the place to come for that purpose.}}

This comment was confirmed in 1900 when the government recruited guild members Thomas Graham Jackson, William Blake Richmond, Edward Onslow Ford, and Walter Crane to the Council for Advice on Art, and they reorganised the Royal College of Art in line with Art Workers' Guild ideals. Under Graham Jacksons' time as Master, the Guildsmen were looking at the purpose of the guild. Many, including Morris wanted the guild to be a more active force and put forward a Councillor to the London County Council to advise on the protection of historical buildings and advocate craftsmanship. However Graham Jackson was against politics and declared the guild should not be: {{blockquote|departing from the old lines on which it had advanced to its present position of usefulness and success}} Graham Jackson decided training the next generation of artists was more important and created the Art Student Guild, which would go onto become the Junior Guild.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=97YUDAAAQBAJ&dq=%22H.+M.+Fletcher%22+art+workers+guild&pg=PA79|title=Oxford Jackson: Architecture, Education, Status, and Style 1835-1924|author=Whyte. W|date=2006|page=78|publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=9780199296583}} The Junior Guild was not a great success and by 1928 was confirmed by members that it had outlived its purpose. However, Masters H. M. Fletcher and Basil Oliver had come through the junior guild.

In 1902, on retiring from the Master's position, George Frampton stressed that only properly qualified candidates should be elected to the guild, and in 1905 the membership election system was amended. By this time the membership had grown to 235. Frampton had also recommended that the guild set up a benevolent fund for hard up members, which became known as the Guild Chest.{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/who-we-are/the-guild-chest/|title=The Guild Chest|website=Art Workers' Guild|access-date=21 October 2021}} However Frampton caused controversy in 1915, calling for Karl Krall, a German-born member, to have his membership revoked due to his nationality during World War I. The guild voted by a one-vote majority to allow Krall to keep his membership, so Frampton resigned. Krall was so upset by the debates that led to the vote that he also resigned and asked that he never be contacted by the guild again.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A3kZCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22George+Frampton%22+art+workers+guild&pg=PA57|title=British Art and the First World War, 1914-1924|author=Fox. J|date=2015|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=9781107105874}}

During World War II the guild's income dropped considerably, however they remained solvent under the "zealous guardianship of the funds" of honorary treasurer Laurence Arthur Turner. In 1945, the War Memorial Advisory Committee asked the guild for its ideas on war memorials, to which the guild responded by deploring mass-produced war memorials and advising on well designed carved inscriptions on the walls of the church cut by individual craftsmen.

The Art Workers Guild gave rise to many offshoots, including the Birmingham, Liverpool,{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=35ovbqnVXk0C&dq=master+of+the+art+workers+guild&pg=PA72|title=Design Culture in Liverpool, 1880-1914: The Origins of the Liverpool School|author=Crouch. C|page=72|date=2002|publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9780853238843}} the Northern Art Workers' Guild in Manchester,{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib5_1233586492|title=Northern Art Workers' Guild|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=21 October 2021}} the Edinburgh Art Workers' Guild and the Junior Art Workers' Guild but the biggest was the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society. There was even a guild set up in Philadelphia.{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4hMAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22art+workers+guild%22+membership&pg=PA29|title=Socities|journal=The American Architect and Building News|page=29|date=14 January 1893}} The guild began as a male-only organisation, leading May Morris to start the Women’s Guild of Arts in 1907 as an alternative for women.{{cite journal|last1=Thomas|first1=Zoe|title='At Home with the Women's Guild of Arts: gender and professional identity in London studios, c. 1880–1925'|journal=Women's History Review|volume=24|issue=6|pages=938–964|date=June 2015|url=http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/tHneiAkTFHfwD6JSskRp/full#.VXHpaUJzy_s|doi=10.1080/09612025.2015.1039348|s2cid=142796942}} In 1914 the women's guild was allowed to use the meeting hall at Queens Square, but they were not allowed to have their roll call on the walls.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inTnDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22art+workers+guild%22+master&pg=PT65|title=Women art workers and the Arts and Crafts movement|author=Thomas. Z|date=2020|publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=9781526140432}} There was great discussion between members about letting in women with Hamilton T. Smith writing to Arthur Llewellyn Smith in 1958 stated: {{blockquote|Ladies. My instinct is against this proposal but I don't know that I feel strong enough to fight it very hard}} In the 1959 Annual Report, it stated that it was "discussed at length but not put to the vote, it being felt that so revolutionary a proposal needed further careful discussion". Further discussions occurred over the next few years, and in 1962 past master Brian Thomas asked: {{blockquote|whether there was any evidence that women wanted to join the guild}} It was not until 1964 that the brothers, at a special meeting, agreed to admit women to the guild. The first women to join was the wood engraver Joan Hassall who became the first female Master in 1972. In 1949, the members of the Junior Art Workers' Guild were invited to join the guild after their organisation closed down.

In 1985, a centenary exhibition was held at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. In a review of the exhibition by Colin Amery in The Burlington Magazine, Amery stated that the exhibition showed "the current Guildsmen work did not have the weight and quality to carry hope of a new spring".{{cite magazine|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/882054|title=Brighton and Cheltenham Art Workers Guild|magazine=The Burlington Magazine|date=March 1985|volume=127 |issue=984|pages=182–185|jstor=882054}}

The guild held its meetings initially in rented space. Between 1884 and 1888, it used the Century Club's rooms at 6 Pall Mall Place in Pall Mall, London,{{cite web|url=https://web.prm.ox.ac.uk/sma/index.php/articles/article-index/404-century-club.html|title=Century Club|website=The Invention of Museum Anthropology, 1850-1920|access-date=17 October 2021}} from 1888 to 1894 it used Barnard's Inn, Holborn and then between 1894 and 1914 they used Clifford's Inn. In 1914, the lease on Clifford's Inn was to end and the organisation was looking for a new home. The Central School of Art and Design was offered as temporary accommodation by London County Council, with negotiations being held by F. V. Burridge, the college's principal.{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/organization.php?id=msib2_1206479696|title=Art Workers' Guild|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=17 October 2021}}[http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095558717 Overview: Central School of Arts and Crafts]. Oxford Reference. Accessed July 2013.

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However, the architects Arnold Dunbar Smith and Cecil Claude Brewer had an office in the front of the early Georgian house at 6 Queen Square, Bloomsbury and, when they heard that the freehold was for sale, encouraged the guild to buy it. The back part of the building was reconstructed as a meeting hall, designed by Francis William Troup and inaugurated on 22 April 1914.{{cite web|url=https://www.ribapix.com/art-workers-guild-6-queen-square-london-the-great-hall_riba28983#|title=Ar Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London: The Great Hall. RIBA Ref No RIBA28983|website=RIBAPIX|access-date=21 October 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1139091|title=NUMBER 6 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS|website=Hustoric England|access-date=21 November 2021}} At the opening, Master Harold Speed said to his fellow Brothers that he knew they would miss, {{blockquote|the picturesque and loveable old hall and Inn}} but encouraged them to enjoy {{blockquote|the satisfaction of being our own masters in our own home, and shall doubtless accumulate in the future, traditions and properties in Queen Square, which will render the new home even dearer and more interesting to us than the old}} The hall was furnished with rush-seated chairs made in Herefordshire by Philip Clissett and his grandsons between 1888 and 1914,{{cite book|last=Carruthers|first=Annette|title=Good Citizens Furniture: the Arts and Crafts Collection at Cheltenham.|year=1994|publisher=Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum|location=Cheltenham|page=81|isbn=9780853316503}} and afterwards copied by Ernest Gimson and his successors. The Master sits in a seat designed by Lethaby and a table by Benson. The names of all members up to the year 2000 are painted on a frieze around the walls of the Hall. The list of names now continues in the front room known as the ‘Master’s Room’.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} In 2017 the building was modernised under the direction of Simon Hurst, the honorary architect of the guild.{{cite news|url=https://www.e-architect.com/london/art-workers-guild-in-bloomsbury|title=Art Workers' Guild in Bloomsbury: New Glass Roof|newspaper=Square Building News|date=8 October 2021}} The building contains portraits of every Master since 1884.{{cite web|url=https://openhouselondon.open-city.org.uk/listings/2003|title=The Art Workers' Guild Georgian|website=openhouselondon|access-date=15 October 2021}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z1jrAAAAMAAJ&q=%22master+of+the+art+Workers%27+Guild%22+portraits|title=Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910): Unity in Design and Industry|author=Hansen, J. M|page=287|date=2007|publisher=Antique Collector's Club |isbn=9781851495344}}

The guild rents space to the British Society of Master Glass Painters at Queen Square. The top two floors are rented as an apartment to designers Ben Pentreath and Charlie McCormick.{{cite news|url=https://www.thetimes.com/life-style/property-home/article/interior-designer-to-the-royals-ben-pentreath-on-the-joy-of-being-a-long-term-tenant-and-why-gardening-stressed-him-out-v9wh68d69|title=Interior designer to the royals Ben Pentreath on the joy of being a long-term tenant and why gardening stressed him out|newspaper=The Times|author=Wintle. A|date=13 May 2018}}{{cite magazine|url=https://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/nz-house-garden/91536931/expat-kiwis-bold-bright-and-botanical-living-room|title=Ex-pat Kiwi's bold, bright and botanical living room|magazine=Stuff|date=25 April 2017}}

The guild is today a society of artists, craftsmen and designers with a common interest in the interaction, development and distribution of creative skills.{{cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/art-workers-guild|title=Art-Workers Guild|website=Royal Academy|access-date=17 October 2021}} Its 350 members work at the highest levels of excellence in their professions, representing over 60 creative disciplines. Their main charitable aim is to support the visual arts and crafts in any way that may be beneficial to the community. The guild continues to programme lectures and workshops for its members to promote the exchange of knowledge among art workers of all disciplines.{{cite web|url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/friends-excursions-the-art-workers-guild-09-2017|title=Friends excursions: the Art Workers' Guild|website=Royal Academy|date=2017}}

Current notable members include artist Chila Kumari Burman,{{cite news|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/chila-kumari-burman-artist-covent-garden-tiger-b958067|title=People treat me like a different person now'—artist Chila Kumari Burman on finding fame and the lack of diversity at top galleries|newspaper=Evening Standard|author=ANNA VAN PRAAGH|date=4 October 2021}} Jane Cox, a Fellow of the Craft Potters Association and Chair of the Outreach Committee of the Art Workers Guild (who run projects across various institutions such as the V&A, Courtauld Institute, Watts Gallery and Imperial College London){{cite web|url=https://www.onthewight.com/binnel-studios-welcome-to-you-their-seventh-summer-exhibition|title=Binnel Studios welcome to you their seventh summer exhibition|website=On the Wight|date=9 August 2021}} and Fleur Oates, a lacemaker and embroiderer who is the artist in residence at Imperial College's vascular surgery department.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.frieze.com/article/what-can-surgeon-learn-tailor-harnessing-healing-art-thread|title=What Can a Surgeon Learn from a Tailor? Harnessing the Healing Art of Thread|magazine=Frieze|author=Butchart. A|date=17 April 2020}}

The guild was visited by Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall in 2015 as part of the London Craft Week.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2015020523273/prince-charles-duchess-of-cornwall-london-engagements|title=Prince Charles and Duchess of Cornwall have fun at London engagements|magazine=Hello|date=5 February 2015}} In 2018, the guild staged the exhibition Salon des Refusés, 30 pieces of work by RIBA’s Traditional Architecture Group that had been rejected by the Royal Academy's Piers Gough architecture room.{{cite news|url=https://www.bdonline.co.uk/rejected-classical-architects-hold-rebel-show/5094131.article|title=Rejected classical architects hold rebel show|newspaper=Building Design|author=Elizabeth Hopkirk|date=18 June 2018}}

In 2023, the guild put forward designs from eight of its Brothers to create rough designs for King Charles coronation invitations. Andrew Jamieson was chosen and his floral design was printed on recycled card.{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/royal-family/king-coronation-invitation-westminster-abbey-b2314474.html|title=Artist who painted for King's coronation sworn to secrecy|newspaper=The Independent|date=5 April 2023}}

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• 1884–85 George Blackall Simonds{{cite book|url=http://www.artworkersguild.org/media/2358/past-master-list.pdf|title=Past Master List|publisher=Art Workers' Guild}}{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1206051288|title=George Blackall Simonds|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=16 October 2021}}
• 1886–87 John D. Sedding{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z0IPAQAAIAAJ&q=%22john+d.+sedding%22+|title=Reconstruction Problems|author=Ministry of Reconstruction, Great Britain|date=1918|page=7}}
• 1888–89 Walter Crane{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PdElT4dS_9oC&dq=master+of+the+art+workers+guild&pg=PA223|title=Societies|journal=Architecture and Building: A Journal of Investment and Construction|issue=16|page=223|date=30 April 1892}}
• 1890 John Brett{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1213368977|title=John Brett|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=17 October 2021}}
• 1891 Sir W. B. Richmond{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnRHAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22art+workers+guild%22+richmond&pg=PA62|title=The Art Workers' Guild Expeditions|journal=The Reviews of Reviews|issue=6|page=62|date=1893}}
• 1892 William Morris
• 1893 J. T. Micklethwaite{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jkcNAQAAIAAJ&q=%22art+workers+guild%22+J.+T.+Micklethwaite|title=British Sculpture 1850-1914: Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Sculpture and Medals Sponsored by the Victorian Society, 30th September-30th October 1968|year=1968|page=29}}
• 1894 Heywood Sumner{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SqzKa8ERPOAC&dq=master+of+the+art+workers+guild&pg=PA292|title=The History and Philosophy of Art Education|author=Macdonald. S|page=292|isbn=9780340094204|date=1970|publisher=James Clarke & Co. }}
• 1895 Edward Onslow Ford{{cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/in-focus/the-singer-and-applause-edward-onslow-ford/ford-and-the-decorative-arts|title=Ford and the Decorative Arts, The Singer exhibited 1889 and Applause 1893 by Edward Onslow Ford|author=Jason Edwards|year=2013|website=Tate|access-date= 10 September 2021}}
• 1896 Sir T. Graham Jackson{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1213351236|title=Sir Thomas Graham Jackson|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=17 October 2021}}
• 1897 Lewis Foreman Day{{cite journal|last1=Rycroft|first1=Elizabeth|title=Lewis Foreman Day (1845-1910) and of the Society of Arts|journal=RSA Journal|date=April 1992|jstor=41375825|volume=140|issue=5428|page=334}}
• 1898 Thomas Stirling Lee{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203635537|title=Thomas Stirling Lee|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow|access-date=19 October 2021}}
• 1899 Sir Mervyn Macartney{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q2qbAAAACAAJ|title=Mervyn Edmund Macartney, architect, 1853-1932|author=Ward. J|date=1998|publisher=Jan Ward |isbn=0953464105}}
• 1900 Selwyn Image{{cite book |title=Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1 |date=2012 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199923052 |pages=1344 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&q=selwyn+image+bodiam+sussex&pg=PA601 |access-date=21 July 2018}}
• 1901 Sir Frank Short{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_JdFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Frank+Short%22+|title=The Year's Art|date=1901|page=123}}
• 1902 Sir George Frampton{{cite book|title=British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum|first1=Diane |last1=Bilbey |first2=Marjorie |last2=Trusted|date=2002|page=262|publisher=V & A Publications |isbn=9781851773954}}
• 1903 Charles Harrison Townsend
• 1904 Sir Emery Walker{{London Gazette|issue=33566|page=2|date=31 December 1929}}
• 1905 Sir Charles Holroyd{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MZ1FAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Charles+Holroyd%22+|title=The Years Art|date=1905|page=142}}
• 1906 Edward S. Prior{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=My3hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Edward+prior%22+art+workers+guild+master|title=The Book Collector, Volume 29|date=1980|page=213}}
• 1907 William Strang{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VgDAAAAMAAJ&q=%22William+Strang%22+master+art+workers+guild|title=The Reformers' Year Book|author=Joseph Edwards, Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence Baron Pethick-Lawrence|date=1908|issue=14|page=208}}
• 1908 F. W. Pomeroy{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mFOhWSH9B6wC&dq=%22Frederick+William+Pomeroy%22+master+of+art+workers+guild&pg=PA457|title=Public Sculpture of Greater Manchester|author=Terry Wyke, Harry Cocks|date=2004|page=457|publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=9780853235576}}
• 1909 Sir George Clausen{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl1HAQAAIAAJ&q=%22George+Clausen%22+master+of+art+workers+guild|title=Sir George Clausen, R.A. 1852-1944|author=Kenneth McConkey|date=1980|page=78|publisher=City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council and Tyne and Wear County Council |isbn=9780905974040}}
• 1910 Halsey Ricardo{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivNymj-0nZwC&dq=%22Halsey+Ricardo%22+master+art+workers+guild&pg=PA86|title=The Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects Town Planning Conference, London. 10-15 October 1910|date=1911|page=86|isbn=9780415677394|author1=Riba|publisher=Routledge }}
• 1911 W. R. Lethaby{{cite book|author=Watkinson, Ray.|title="Godfrey Rubens's Lethaby" (well-informed book review).|publisher=William Morris Journal. 7.1|date=Autumn 1986|issue=68|pages=25–35}}
• 1912 C. W. Whall
• 1913 Edward Prioleau Warren{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1215788059|title=Edward Prioleau Warren|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=21 October 2021}}
• 1914 Thomas Okey{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217242063|title=Thomas Okey|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=22 October 2021}}
• 1915 H. R. Hope-Pinker{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hQQSAAAAIAAJ&q=Henry+Richard+Hope-Pinker|title=The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year|author=Burke. Edmund|issue=169|page=121|date=1928}}
• 1916 Harold Speed{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rQvyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Harold+Speed%22+|title=Mr. Harold Speed|journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|volume=105|date=1956|page=430}}
• 1917 Henry Wilson{{cite web|url=https://aim25.com/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=3056&inst_id=40&nv1=search&nv2=|title=WILSON, Henry (1864-1934)|website=AIM25|access-date=17 October 2021}}
• 1918 Walter Shirley, 11th Earl Ferrers{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b9FAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Walter+Knight+Shirley%22+master+of+art+workers+guild|title=The Year's Art|date=1938|page=323}}
• 1919 Arthur Rackham{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&dq=%22Arthur+Rackham%22+master+of+art+workers+guild&pg=RA1-PA245|title=Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1|author=Bury. S|date=2012|publisher=Oup USA |isbn=9780199923052}}
• 1920 R. W. S. Weir(previously known as Robert Weir Schultz){{cite magazine|url=https://www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/country-gardens-and-gardening-tips/the-owners-of-weirs-barn-brought-robert-weir-schultzs-arts-crafts-gardens-back-to-life|title=Weirs Barn: A Hampshire garden where Robert Weir Schultz's Arts-and-Crafts vision came back to life|magazine=Countrylife|author=Daneff. T|date=21 April 2021}}
• 1921 R. Anning Bell
• 1922 Laurence A. Turner{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I1TqAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Laurence+Arthur+Turner%22+master+art+workers+guild|title=British Sculpture 1470 to 2000: A Concise Catalogue of the Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum|author=Bilbey. D|date=2002|page=470|publisher=Harry N. Abrams |isbn=9781851773954}}
• 1923 Francis W. Troup{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8XpZAAAAYAAJ&q=workers+guild|title=Who's who in Architecture, 1923|author=Chatterton. F|date=1923|page=252}}
• 1924 C. F. Annesley Voysey{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2tt1CQAAQBAJ&dq=%22voysey%22+art+workers+guild&pg=PA15|title=The Art and Architecture of C.F.A Voysey: English Pioneer Modernist Architect & Designer|author=David Cole|date=2015|publisher=Images |isbn=9781864706048}}
• 1925 Gilbert Bayes{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203020390 |title= Gilbert William Bayes HRI, PRBS|year=2011|access-date=27 April 2020|work=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951}}
• 1926 John Leighton
• 1927 Sir Francis Newbolt{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217255971|title=Sir Francis Newbolt|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=22 October 2021}}
• 1928 F. Ernest Jackson{{cite web|url=https://collections.arts.ac.uk/people/229/f-ernest-jackson|title=F. Ernest Jackson|website=University of the Arts, London|access-date=23 October 2021}}
• 1929 C. R. Ashbee{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1206481367|title=Charles Robert Ashbee|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=23 October 2021}}
• 1930 Henry Martineau Fletcher (also known as H. M. Fletcher) {{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1212502135|title=Henry Martineau Fletcher|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=23 October 2021}}
• 1931 Edmund J. SullivanBryant, Mark. World War I in Cartoons. London: Grub Street Pub, 2006, page 17, {{ISBN|190494356X}}
• 1932 Basil Oliver{{cite web|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100248898|title=Basil Oliver (1882—1948)|website=Oxford Reference|access-date=24 October 2021}}
• 1933 Sir Edwin Lutyens{{cite journal|url=https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-edwin-lutyens|title=The rise and fall and rise of Edwin Lutyens|journal=The Architectural Review|date=19 November 1981|author=Stamp. G|issue=170:1017|pages=311–18}}
• 1934 F. L. Griggs{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=APdIAQAAIAAJ&q=%22F.+L.+Griggs%22+art+workers+guild|title=The Etched Work of F. L. Griggs R.A., R.E., F.S.A.|author=Wright. H. J. L|date=1941|page=12}}
• 1935 Ernest G. Gillick{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m75FAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Ernest+Gillick%22+|title=The Year's Art|date=1936|page=104}}
• 1936 Harry Morley{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Cb9FAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Harry+Morley%22+art+workers+guild|title=The Year's Art|date=1937|page=106}}
• 1937 Frederick Marriott{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5b9FAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Frederick+Marriott%22+|title=The Year's Art|date=1938|page=103}}
• 1938 Richard Garbe{{Cite web|title=Richard Louis Garbe RA|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1210166472|access-date=17 August 2020|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011}}
• 1939–40 Hamilton T. Smith{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=msJFAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Hamilton+T.+Smith%22+art+workers+guild|title=The Year's Art|date=1940|page=91}}
• 1941 Percy J. Delf Smith{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8VNDAAAAYAAJ&q=Percy+J.+Delf+Smith+art+workers+guild|title=The Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|issue=95|page=190|date=1947}}
• 1942 George Parlby{{cite web|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1217244252|title=George Parlby|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII|access-date=25 October 2021}}
• 1943 Sir Albert Richardson{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tUjAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Albert+Richardson%22+art+workers+guild|title=Sir Albert Richardson: The Professor|author=Houfe. S|date=1980|page=117|publisher=White Crescent Press |isbn=9780900804267}}
• 1944 William Henry Ansell{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9lPAAAAMAAJ&q=%22W.+H.+Ansell%22+art+workers+guild|title=Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary|author=Alexander Stuart Gray|page=89|date=1986|publisher=University of Iowa Press |isbn=9780715610121}}
• 1945 James Humphries Hogan{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4eZTJPOp1HgC&q=%22James+H.+Hogan%22+art+workers+guild|title=The Studio|issue=135|page=156|date=1948}}
• 1946 Cecil Thomas{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64419|title=Thomas, Cecil Walter|last=Simmons|first=Frances|date=October 2007|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/64419|access-date=6 January 2016}} {{Subscription or membership required}}
• 1947 Stephen J. B. Stanton{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pvRUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Stephen+Stanton%22+masters++art+workers+guild+%221947%22|title=Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects|date=1951|page=407}}
• 1948 Eric Hesketh Hubbard{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QkEPAQAAIAAJ&q=%22+Hesketh+Hubbard%22++|title=The Voice of Industry|date=1947}}
• 1949 T. A. Darcy Braddell
• 1950 Leonard Walker{{cite web|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG50219|title=Leonard Walker|website=The British Museum|access-date=25 October 2021}}
• 1951 Cyril Kenneth Bird (also known as Fougasse){{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HtocAQAAMAAJ&q=%22+Kenneth+Bird%22+art+workers+guild|title=Artists' Guide|date=1951|page=63}}
• 1952 Gerald Cobb
• 1953 W. Godfrey Allen
• 1954 William Washington
• 1955 Reginald Robert Tomlinson{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/tomlinson-reginald-robert-18851978|title=Reginald Robert Tomlinson 1885–1978 British, English|website=artuk.org|access-date=26 October 2021}}
• 1956 Donald H. McMorran{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wV5IAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Donald+McMorran%22+art+workers+guild|title=McMorran & Whitby: Twentieth Century Architects|author=Denison. E|date=2009|page=141|publisher=RIBA |isbn=9781859463208}}
• 1957 Brian D. L. Thomas{{cite journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GfdUAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Brian+Thomas%22+art+workers+guild|title=I. Formative Years|journal=Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects|volume=64|date=1957|page=218}}
• 1958 Laurence Bradshaw{{Cite web|title=Laurence Henderson Bradshaw - Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951|url=https://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=ann_1269000135|access-date=2021-04-25|website=sculpture.gla.ac.uk}}
• 1959 Henry Medd{{cite magazine|url=https://www.abingdon.org.uk/uploads/school/files/abingdonian/1978_June_V017_N002.pdf|title=Deaths|magazine=The Abingdonian|date=June 1978|volume=17|issue=2|page=57}}
• 1960 Stuart Tresilian{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU8QAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Stuart+Tresilian%22+art+workers+guild |title=An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord|author=Whitaker. J|date=1961|page=980}}
• 1961 Sydney M. Cockerell{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xOBCAAAAIAAJ&q=%22sydney+morris+cockerell%22+art+workers+guild|title=Sydney M. Cockerell |magazine=British Bookbinding Today|date=1976|page=18}}
• 1962 Sir Gordon Russell{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o2VJAQAAIAAJ&q=+art+workers+guild|title=Gordon Russell: Designer of Furniture, 1892-1992|author=Myerson. J|date=1992|page=6|publisher=Design Council |isbn=9780850723069}}
• 1963 Milner Grey{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_1NQAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Milner+Gray%22+art+workers+guild|title=Design, Issues 169-174|page=75|date=1963}}
• 1964 Arthur Llewellyn Smith{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x0zWAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Arthur+Llewellyn+Smith%22+art+workers+guild|title=Annual Report|author=William Morris Society|date=1978|page=4}}
• 1965 William J. Wilson{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5kkAQAAMAAJ&q=%22william+j.+Wilson%22+art+workers+guild|title=William J. Wilson|magazine=Glass|volume=50|date=1973|page=7}}
• 1966 William F. Howard
• 1967 John Brandon-Jones
• 1968 Charles Hutton{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituaries-charles-hutton-1575742.html|title=Charles Hutton|newspaper=The Independent|date=2 October 1995}}
• 1969 Frederick Bentham
• 1970 Bruce Allsopp
• 1971 Paul Edward Paget
• 1972 Joan Hassall
• 1973 David Peace{{cite journal|title=Boston Artists and Craftsmen at the Opening of the Twentieth Century|journal=The New England Quarterly|pages=387–408|issue=3|date=September 1977|doi=10.2307/364275|jstor=364275|last1=Whitehill|first1=Walter Muir|volume=50}}
• 1974 Rodney Tatchell
• 1975 Dennis Flanders{{cite news |author=Skipwith. Peyton|url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-dennis-flanders-1377139.html|title=Obituary: Dennis Flanders|date=17 August 1994|access-date=31 August 2016|newspaper=The Independent}}
• 1976 Roderick Enthoven
• 1977 Arthur Bultitude{{cite magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mWs9AQAAIAAJ&q=%22Arthur+Bultitude%22|title=Obituary - Arthur Richard Bultitude MBE Bowmaker|magazine=The Strad|volume=101|date=1990|page=430}}
• 1978 Sean Crampton{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/1999/aug/19/guardianobituaries1|title=Sean Crampton Obituary|author=Bailey. Colette|newspaper=The Guardian|date=18 August 1999}}
• 1979 Rev. Gordon Taylor
• 1980 John Peter Foster{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7416231/Peter-Foster.html |title=Peter Foster|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=10 March 2010}}{{cite journal|url=https://www.sal.org.uk/2020/02/sal230/|title=Lives remembered|journal=Salon |issue=230|date=14 February 2020}}
• 1981 Philip Bentham
• 1982 Margaret Maxwell{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/margaret-maxwell-6108126.html|title=Margaret Maxwell|author=Hamilton. James|newspaper=The Independent|date=28 February 2006}}
• 1983 John R. Biggs{{cite web|url=http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/alumni-arts/biggs,-john-r-1909-1989|title=John R Biggs|website=University of Brighton|access-date=28 October 2021}}
• 1984 Sir Peter Shepheard{{cite news |title=Sir Peter Shepheard: Urban architect with a lifelong vision of the natural world |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/apr/15/guardianobituaries.obituaries |work=The Guardian |date=15 April 2002|access-date=15 October 2014}}
• 1985 John Skelton{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-john-skelton-1130606.html|title=Obituary: John Skelton|author=Powers. A|newspaper=The Independent|date=6 December 1999}}
• 1986 Paddy (Patricia) Curzon-Price
• 1987 Roderick Gradidge{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/25/guardianobituaries.alanpower|title=Roderick Gradidge. Architect who led the rehabilitation of Lutyens|first=Alan |last=Powers |newspaper=The Guardian|date=24 January 2001}}
• 1988 Carl Dolmetsch{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-carl-dolmetsch-a3309391.html|title=Obituary: Carl Dolmetsch|author=Godwin. S|newspaper=The Independent|date=23 October 2011}}
• 1989 Roderick Ham{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/mar/02/roderick-ham-obituary|title=Roderick Ham obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Foster. T|date=2 March 2017}}
• 1990 John Lawrence{{Cite web|url=http://www.childrensbookillustration.com/view_artist.php?id=25|title = John Lawrence Collection}}
• 1991 Anthony Ballantine
• 1992 Kenneth Budd
• 1993 Marthe Armitage
• 1994 Robin Wyatt
• 1995 Richard Grasby
• 1996 Glynn Boyd Harte{{cite news|author=Patrick O'Connor |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/dec/19/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries |title=Obituary: Glynn Boyd Harte | Global |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=2 March 2016}}
• 1997 Josephine Harris{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/19/josephine-harris-obituary|title=Josephine Harris obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Jensen. A|date=19 November 2020}}{{cite news |last1=Jensen |first1=Alison |title=Josephine Harris obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/nov/19/josephine-harris-obituary|access-date=26 January 2021|work=The Guardian|date=19 November 2020|language=en}}
• 1998 Peyton Skipwith{{cite news|url=https://www.apollo-magazine.com/skeleton-armor-walter-crane-frieze-rouen/|title=A Viking-inspired frieze by Walter Crane finds a new home in Rouen|magazine=Apollo. The International Art Magazine|author=Skipwith. P|date=11 February 2020}}
• 1999 Ian Archie Beck
• 2000 Donald Buttress
• 2001 Zachary Taylor
• 2002 Edward Greenfield{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/02/edward-greenfield|title=Edward Greenfield obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|author=David McKie and Meirion Bowen|date=2 July 2015}}
• 2003 Christopher Boulter
• 2004 Sally Pollitzer
• 2005 Dick Reid{{cite news|url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/19019918.obituary-dick-reid-obe-carver-wood-stone/|title=Obituary: Dick Reid OBE, carver in wood and stone|newspaper=The York Press|author=Lewis. S|date=19 January 2021}}
• 2006 Stephen Gotlieb
• 2007 Assheton Gorton
• 2008 Brian Webb{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YaLQDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22master+of+the+art+workers%27+Guild%22+%22Brian+Webb%22&pg=PT214|title=Eileen Hogan: Personal Geographies|first1=Elisabeth R. |last1=Fairman |first2=Eileen |last2=Hogan |first3=Duncan |last3=Robinson |first4=Roderick Conway |last4=Morris |first5=Todd |last5=Longstaffe-Gowan |first6=Sarah Victoria |last6=Turner|page=214|date=2019|publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=9780300241471}}
• 2009 Alison Jensen
• 2010 Sophie MacCarthy
• 2011 Sir Edmund Fairfax Lucy{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/may/12/edmund-fairfax-lucy-obituary|title=Edmund Fairfax-Lucy obituary|newspaper=The Guardian|author=Hills. P|date=12 May 2020}}
• 2012 George Hardie{{cite web|url=https://www.slanted.de/george-hardie-exhibition/|title=George Hardie Exhibition|website=Slanted|date=16 July 2020}}
• 2013 Julian Bicknell
• 2014 Prue Cooper
• 2015 Anthony Paine
• 2016 David Birch
• 2017 Phil Abel
• 2018 Jane Cox
• 2019 Anne Thorne{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/what-we-do/events/outreach-evening-conversation/|title=Outreach Evening Conversation|website=Art Workers' Guild|access-date=21 October 2021}}
• 2020-21 Alan Powers{{cite web|url=https://www.battleofideas.org.uk/2019/speaker/alan-powers/ |title=Alan Power; teacher; leader for history and theory, London School of Architecture; author, Bauhaus Goes West|website=Battle of Ideas Festival|access-date=21 October 2021}}
• 2021-22 Tracey Sheppard{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/news-page|title=News|website=Art Workers' Guild|access-date=21 January 2021}}{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/about-us/constitution/|title=Constitution|website=Art Workers' Guild|access-date=21 January 2021}}

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• 2023 Fred Baier{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/news-page/|title=Thursday 5 October 2023|website=Art Worker's Guild|access-date=11 February 2024}}

• 2024 Rob Ryan{{cite web|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/what-we-do/guild-meetings/|title=Guild meetings|website=Art Workers' Guild|access-date=11 February 2024}}

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• J. L. J. Masse, The Art-Workers Guild 1884–1934 Oxford: Printed for the Art-Workers' Guild at the Shakespeare Head Press, 1935. {{OCLC|559542296}}

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• {{cite web|access-date=17 October 2005|url=http://www.artworkersguild.org|title=Art Workers Guild|work=Official website of the Guild| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20051024183825/http://www.artworkersguild.org/| archive-date= 24 October 2005 | url-status= live}}
• {{cite web|access-date=10 March 2013|url=https://www.artworkersguild.org/media/3731/awg-history-gavin-stamp-edited-feb-2022.pdf|title=A Hundred Years of the Art Workers Guild|author=Gavin Stamp|author-link=Gavin Stamp}}
• [http://www.artworkersguild.org/about-us/the-guild-today/the-guild-constitution/ The Guild Constitution]
• [http://www.artworkersguild.org/about-us/history/ Artworkers’ Guild History]

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