Modern talking May 2, 2006
British artists participated in the modern movement: the cubist-centred display Matthew Gale is putting together gives a strong and deserved place to the dynamic fragmenting paintings of CRW Nevinson and David Bomberg; its most spectacular double act of all will be Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and Jacob Epstein's Rock Drill - two sculptures that prophesy a mechanistic inhuman future. Partly through the influence of British modern artists such as the surrealist Roland Penrose, the Tate collection... (Guardian Unlimited)
East End's historical haven closes its doors forever Aug 7, 2005
The playwright Bernard Kops and painters Mark Gertler and David Bomberg all flowered in that maze of teaming streets. And at the centre of it all was the Whitechapel Library, which carries a blue plaque saying the poet Isaac Rosenberg read there. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
The convoluted coils of Michael Knutson Oct 20, 2004
The hand painted shapes, held together loose and tight at once, vaguely remind me of David Bomberg and other artists of Vorticism, an English art movement. The other obvious forefather is Op Art, but to just apply labels is lazy, especially as the work doesn't neatly fit into any of them. (Vanguard, OR)
Visions from the trenches Nov 7, 2003
With Rosenberg, and later Mark Gertler and David Bomberg, they came to be known as "the Whitechapel boys". "We were the slum children, the problem youth, the beneficiaries of the Board of Guardians and the soup kitchen, and some of us (like Rosenberg and Bomberg) of the Jewish Educational Aid Society," wrote Leftwich, who became a writer (Guardian, UK)