Osborne Samuel

Lynn Chadwick

(British, 1914–2003)

Lynn Chadwick

Bird III, 1958

Lynn Chadwick

Dance XII, 1958

Lynn Chadwick

Fish, 1956

Lynn Chadwick

Maquette IV Two Reclining Figures, 1973

Lynn Chadwick

Maquette Jubilee II, 1983

Lynn Chadwick

Pair of Sitting Figures I, 1973

Timeline

1914: Born in Barnes
1933 - 1939: Trained as an architectural draughtsman
1941 - 1944: Pilot in Fleet Air Arm, Royal Navy
1944 - 1949: Returned to work for architect Rodney Thomas, London
1947 - 1952: Produced textile, furniture, and architectural designs
1947: First mobile shown at Building Trades Exhibition
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
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
: Artist in residence for a term at Ontario College of Art, Toronto
: 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
: 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
: Honorary Fellow, Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education
1998: Honorary Fellow, Bath Spa University College, Bath
2001: Elected Senior Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2003: Died on April 25, at Lypiatt Park, buried there in the Pinetum
2004: Awarded the Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts
: 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
: Collection of the Principality of Monaco, Monte Carlo
: Museo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, Mexico
: Marie-Louise and Gunnar Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki
: National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica
: 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
: Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
: 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
: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Sofia Imber, Caracas

Exhibitions

2007: Lynn Chadwick: Prints and Maquettes, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire (solo)
2006: Beaux Arts, London (solo)
: Osborne Samuel, London (solo)
2005: Celebrating Chadwick, The Museum in the Park, Gloucestershire (solo)
2004: Canary Wharf, Osborne Samuel Gallery, London (solo)
: Lynn Chadwick 1914 - 2003, Dexia, Luxembourg curated by Gallery Pangolin (solo)
2003: Coming from the Dark, Gallery Pangolin, Gloucestershire (solo)
: Tate Britain, Duveen Galleries, London (solo)
2002: Buschlen Mowatt Gallery, Palm Desert, California (solo)
: Tasende Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
: JGM Galerie, Paris (solo)
2001: Beaux Arts, London (solo)
1999: Beaux Arts, London (solo)
1996: Gimpel Fils and Berkeley Square Gallery, London (solo)
: Symbols for ’51, The Royal Festival Hall, London
: 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
: Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)
1993: Galeria Freites, Caracas (solo)
: The Economist Plaza, London (solo)
: Galerie Marbeau, Paris (solo)
: Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1992: Gallery Universe, Tokyo (solo)
1991: Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
: The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama (solo)
: Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield (solo)
1990: Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Sofia Imber, Caracas (solo)
1989: Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
: Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
1988: Galeria Freites, Caracas (solo)
: Modern British Sculpture from the Collection, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
1987: Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
: Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1986: British Embassy, sponsored by Christie’s Contemporary Art (solo)
: Beaux Arts, Bath (solo)
1985: Marlborough Gallery, New York (solo)
: Recalling the Fifties: British Painting and Sculpture 1950-60, Serpentine Gallery, London
1984: Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
: 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
: 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)
: Sculpture in Holland Park, London
1974: Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
: Jiyugaoka Gallery, Tokyo (solo)
1972: Galleria Blu, Milan (solo)
1971: Galeria Wspólczesna, Warsaw (solo)
: 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)
: Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1965: British Sculpture in the Sixties, Tate Gallery, London
: Sculptures from Albert A. List Family Collection, New York Art Center
1964: Contemporary British Sculpture (Arts Council open-air touring exhibition)
: 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
: Galleria Blu, Milan (with Kenneth Armitage)
1962: Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, Japan (with Kenneth Armitage)
: British Art Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art
: Marlborough Fine Art, London (solo)
1961: 2ème Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris
: Peter Lanyon, William Scott, Lynn Chadwick, Merlyn Evans, VI Biennale de São Paulo, Museo de Arte Moderna (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
: Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris (solo)
1957: Saidenberg Gallery, New York (solo)
: Contemporary Art – Acquisitions 1954-1957, Albright Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
: Sculpture 1850 and 1950, Holland Park, London
: XXVIII Biennale, Venice (with Ivon Hitchens)
: Exposition Internationale de Sculpture Contemporaine, Musée Rodin, Paris
1956: The Seasons, Tate Gallery, London
1955: Young British Sculptors (touring exhibition by the Arts Club of Chicago)
: 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
: IXème Salon de Mai, Palais de New York, Paris
: 2ème Biennale de la Sculpture, Middelheim Park, Antwerp
1952: New Aspects of British Sculpture, XXXVI Biennale, Venice
: 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

Osborne Samuel

Lynn Chadwick

(British, 1914–2003)

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Lynn Chadwick

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature