Influence
In many respects the Leeds Arts Club can be seen as the closest England came to a genuine expressionist art movement, and this was accentuated not only by its interests, which mirror those seen in German expressionist art groups of the time, but in the Club's direct links to Kandinsky in Germany. It also produced its own expressionist artists, including Jacob Kramer and the little known, but remarkable, painter Bruce Turner.
It also was the seed ground from which the eminent art critic and theorist Herbert Read emerged, and Henry Moore has been linked to it. If one takes Orage and Jackson's New Age as England's equivalent to the German expressionist journal Der Sturm, then it seems reasonable to view the Leeds Arts Club as the centre of English Expressionism.
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