The Euston Road School was a group of English painters, active in London between 1937 and 1939.
William Coldstream, Victor Pasmore, Claude Rogers, Maurice Field and Graham Bell set up a School of Drawing and Painting in Euston Road in 1937; other associated artists included Lawrence Gowing, Tom Carr, Peter Lanyon, Rodrigo Moynihan and Thelma Hulbert.
The painters emphasised naturalism and realism, in contrast to the various schools of avant-garde art then prevalent. Many of the members were on the political left, and naturalism was seen as an attempt to make art more relevant and understandable to non-specialists.
Several exhibited at the Storran Gallery.
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