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Lynn Chadwick    (British, 1914-2003)

 Lynn Chadwick - Maquette IV (Sculptures) h: 44 x w: 35 x d: 29 cm / h: 17.3 x w: 13.8 x d: 11.4 in
Lynn Chadwick
Maquette IV 1984
 
 Lynn Chadwick - Sitting Woman in robes IV (Sculptures) h: 91 x w: 91 x d: 94 cm / h: 35.8 x w: 35.8 x d: 37 in
Lynn Chadwick
Sitting Woman in robes IV 1987
 
 

Biography
1914 Born in Barnes
1933 - 1939 Trained as an architectural draughtsman
1941 - 1944 Pilot in Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy
1947 First mobile shown at Building Trades Exhibition
1944 - 1949 Returned to work for architect Rodney Thomas, London
1949 Small mobile for the window of Gimpel Fils, London, as part of a mixed exhibition
1950 First one-man show at Gimpel Fils, London
1947 - 1952 Produced textile, furniture and architectural designs
1953 One of the 12 semi-finalists for The Unknown Political Prisoner International Sculpture Competition
1956 Won the International Prize for Sculpture, XXVIII Biennale, Venice
1958 Moved to Lypiatt Park
1959 Won first prize, III Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, Padua
1961 Exhibited hors concours at VI Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil
1962 Prize winner at VII Esposizione di Bianco e Nero, Lugano
1962 Artist in residence for a term at Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1962 Took part in a sculpture project for Italsider S.p.A, Genoa with Alexander Calder and David Smith for the Festival dei Due Monde, Rome
1964 Appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1965 Elected member of the Academia di San Luca, Rome
1968 Environmental sculpture for Milan Esposizione Triennale
1988 Invited by the Director of the XLIII Venice Biennale to contribute Back to Venice for a special international sculpture survey
1988 Appointed to the Order of Andres Bello, First Class, Venezuela
1993 Created Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
1995 Created Associate, Academie Royale de Belgique
1995 Created Honorary Fellow, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
1998 Created Honorary Fellow, Bath Spa University College, Bath
2001 Elected a Senior Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003 25th April died at Lypiatt Park, buried there in the Pinetum
2004 Awarded the Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts
Selected Public Collections
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia
Western Australian Art, Perth, Australia
Art Gallery NSW, Sydney
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
National Gallery, Hamilton, Bermuda
Art Gallery of Hamilton, Canada
Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nordjyllands Kuntsmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée Rodin, Paris, France
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv
Jerusalem Foundation, Jerusalem
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
City of Spoleto, Italy
Galeria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Venice, Italy
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Mexico
Collection of the Principality of Monaco, Monte Carlo
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Nasjonalgalleriet, Oslo, Norway
Instituto de Artes Contemporaneas, Lima, Peru
The Berardo Collection, Lisbon, Portugal
South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
Modern Museet, Stockholm
City Museums and Gallery, Birmingham
City of Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Contemporary Art Society, London
British Council, London
Tate Gallery, London
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection, New York
Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvannia
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, Caracas

Exhibitions
2007 Lynn Chadwick: Prints and Maquettes, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire (solo)
2006 Beaux Arts, London (solo)
2006 Osborne Samuel, London (solo)
2005 Celebrating Chadwick, The Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire (solo)
2004 Canary Wharf, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Lynn Chadwick 1914 - 2003, Dexia, Luxembourg curated by Gallery Pangolin (solo)
2003 Coming from the Dark, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire (solo)
2003 Tate Britain, Duveen Galleries, London (solo)
2002 Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, California (solo)
2002 Tasende Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
2001 Beaux Arts, London (solo)
2001 JGM Galerie, Paris (solo)
1999 Beaux Arts, London (solo)
1996 Gimpel Fils and Berkeley Square Gallery, London (solo)
1996 Symbols for ’51, The Royal Festival Hall, London
1996 Les Champs de la Sculpture, Champs Elyseés, Paris
1994 A Changing World of Sculpture from the British Council Collection, The State Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
1994 Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)
1993 Galeria Freites, Caracas (solo)
1993 The Economist Plaza, London (solo)
1992 Gallery Universe, Tokyo (solo)
1992 Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1992 Galerie Marbeau, Paris (solo)
1991 Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
1991 The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (solo)
1991 Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (solo)
1990 Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas (solo)
1989 Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1989 Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
1988 Galeria Freites, Caracas (solo)
1988 Modern British Sculpture from the Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1987 Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1986 British Embassy, sponsored by Christie’s Contemporary Art (solo)
1986 Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)
1986 Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1985 Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
1985 Recalling the Fifties: British Painting and Sculpture 1950-60, Serpentine Gallery, London
1984 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1984 Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1983 Mercury Gallery, Edinburgh (solo)
1982 Christie’s Contemporary Art, New York (with Victor Pasmore)
1981 British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1980 Galerie Regards, Paris (solo)
1979 Keys Gallery, Londonderry (solo)
1978 Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1977 A Silver Jubilee Exhibition of Contemporary British Sculpture, Battersea Park, London
1977 Carved, Modelled, Constructed: three aspects of British 20th century sculpture, Tate Gallery, London
1975 Arte Contacto Galeria de Arte, Caracas (in collaboration with Marlborough Gallery, New York) (solo)
1975 Sculpture in Holland Park, London
1974 Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1974 Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1972 Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1971 Galeria Wspólczesna, Warsaw (solo)
1971 IVème Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris
1969 Galerie Withofs, Brussels (solo)
1968 Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1966 Marlborough New London Gallery (solo)
1966 Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1965 British Sculpture in the Sixties, Tate Gallery, London
1965 Sculptures from Albert A. List Family Collection, New York Art Center
1964 Contemporary British Sculpture (Arts Council open-air touring exhibition)
1964 Exhibition of Venice Biennale Prizewinners since 1948, Galeria d’Arte Moderne, Venice
1963 Sculpture in the Open Air (London County Council exhibition), Battersea Park, London
1963 Galleria Blu, Milan (with Kenneth Armitage)
1962 Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan (with Kenneth Armitage)
1962 British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
1961 2ème Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris
1961 Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Lynn Chadwick, Merlyn Evans, VI Biennale de São Paulo, Museo de Arte Moderna (solo)
1961 Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1960 Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanover (with Kenneth Armitage)
1959 John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 2, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
1958 50 Ans d’Art Moderne, Palais International des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1958 Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris (solo)
1957 Saidenberg Gallery, New York (solo)
1957 Contemporary Art – Acquisitions 1954-1957, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
1957 Sculpture 1850 and 1950, Holland Park, London
1956 The Seasons, Tate Gallery, London
1956 Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris
1956 XXVIII Biennale, Venice (with Ivon Hitchens)
1955 Young British Sculptors (touring exhibition by the Arts Club of Chicago)
1955 54th London Group, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1954 Sculpture in the Open Air, Holland Park, London
1953 The Unknown Political Prisoner (sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary Arts), Tate Gallery, London
1953 IXème Salon de Mai, Palais de New York, Paris
1953 2ème Biennale de la Sculpture, Middelheim Park, Antwerp
1952 New Aspects of British Sculpture, XXXVI Biennale, Venice
1952 Gimpel Fils, London (solo)
1951 Festival of Britain, South Bank, London
1950 Gimpel Fils, London (solo)

Literature
Lynn Chadwick, in Artists of Our Time, Herbert Read, Künstler Unserer Zeit, IV, Bodensee-Verlag, Amriswil, Switzerland, 2nd edn. 1960
Lynn Chadwick, Judith Collins; Intro. by Eva Chadwick, Ruder Finn Press Inc, New York, 2006
Lynn Chadwick,Dennis Farr, Tate, London, 2004
Lynn Chadwick, Osborne Samuel, London, 2004
Chadwick, Edward Lucie- Smith, Lypiatt Studio, 1997
Lynn Chadwick, Dennis Farr, Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Kyoto & Hakone Open-Air Museum; 1991
Lynn Chadwick, Sculpture 1951-1991, Andrew Causey, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 1991
Lynn Chadwick. Sculptor. A Complete Illustrated Catalogue 1947-1988, Dennis Farr & Eva Chadwick, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1990
Lynn Chadwick: The Sculptor and His World, Nico Koster & Paul Levine, SMD Informatief Spruyyt, Van Mantgem & De Does, Leiden, 1988
Lynn Chadwick, in Art in Progress, Alan Bowness, Methuen, London, 1962
Chadwick, in Modern Sculptors, Josef Paul Hodin Zwemmer, London, 1961
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