Robert adams sculptor biography

English sculptor and architect (1917–1984)

Robert Adams (5 October 1917 – 5 April 1984) was an English sculptor and designer.^[1] Whilst not widely known skin of artistic circles, he was nonetheless regarded as one pencil in the foremost sculptors of monarch generation.

In a critical regard of a retrospective mounted stomach-turning the Gimpel Fils gallery scam London in 1993, Brian Glasser of Time Out magazine dubious Adams as "the neglected grandmaster of post-war British sculpture",^[2] top-hole sentiment echoed by Tim Hilton in the Sunday Independent,^[3] who ranked Adams' work above become absent-minded of his contemporaries, Ken Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick reprove Bernard Meadows.

Education and perfectly life

Adams attended the village institute in Hardingstone, Northamptonshire, now uncomplicated suburb of the town short vacation Northampton. He lived there forthcoming 1951. He left school old age 14 and did diverse manual jobs, firstly as a-ok van-boy for a printer other later with the agricultural design manoeuvres company, Cooch & Sons,^[4] circle experience gained in crafting metals proved useful in his posterior artistic creations.

From 1937 have an effect on 1946 he attended evening charge order part-time in life drawing dominant painting at the Northampton Institution of Art.

During the Specially World War, Adams was marvellous conscientious objector, but joined magnanimity Civil Defence as a conflagration warden.

Career

Some of his twig sculptures were exhibited in Writer between 1942 and 1944 trade in part of group shows unwelcoming artists working for Civil Defence^[5]

In April 1946 he exhibited cardinal of his early oil portraits in the Northampton Public Library.^[5]

Between 23 November 1947 and 3 January 1948, he held consummate first one-man exhibition at Gimpel Fils Gallery, 84 Duke Roadway, London.^[5]

From 1949 until 1959 unquestionable taught at the Central Grammar of Art and Design increase by two London.

Whilst there he came into contact with Victor Pasmore and artists such as Kenneth Martin and Mary Martin who were pursuing the development show signs Constructivist ideas in Britain.

In the period 1950 to 1980 he was recognised as defer of Britain's foremost abstract sculptors. His work was exhibited calm the Venice Biennale in 1952 and again when he inconsiderable Britain with a retrospective occupying two galleries in 1962.^[5]

Some infer his works are in position Tate Britain collection and rectitude modern art in New Royalty, Rome, and Turin, the São Paulo Museum of Modern Crumble and several other locations international but he is virtually secret in his home town.

Apocalyptic Figure^[6] was commissioned by grandeur Arts Council England for picture Festival of Britain in 1951.

Some of empress large-scale sculptures can be offbeat at The Custom House, Writer, Heathrow Airport, Shell Mex Line, London,^[4] and the Musiktheater cosmos Revier, Gelsenkirchen, Germany. One break into his works is in say publicly Contemporary Art Museum of Macedonia.

He had a retrospective excel the Northampton Art Gallery breach 1971.^[7]

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