Rivelin Valley artists

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Ben Baines (1922), Rivelin Valley Corn Mill

The Rivelin Valley artists were a group of professional and amateur landscape artists in the early 1920s, based in the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield. The most prominent was Robert Scott-Temple. Others were William WE Goodrich, Ben Baines, Charles Edwin Dyson, Vernon Edwards and Charles Pigott.

Their work was shown and celebrated at Sheffield's Weston Park Gallery in July 2017. [1]

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References

  1. "Artists who captured the Valley". Sheffield Telegraph. 2017-07-20. Retrieved 2017-08-07.