Sculpture in the Home . 1st Exhibition 1946
Catalogue of the 1st Arts Council “Sculpture in the Home” exhibition, held in 1946. List of 74 works, 5 monochrome plates. Artists include: Adrian Allison, Richard Bedford, Atri Brown, Frank Dobson, Mary Duras, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Anna Mahler, Henry Moore, Loris Rey, Auguste Rodin, Renée Sintenis, Elizabeth Spurr, John Smith, Aristide Maillol and many more.
Between 1946 and 1958 the Arts Council of Great Britain staged a series of travelling displays of contemporary sculpture designed to attract buyers of modest means.
Dr Robert Burstow has pointed out that “with their slim catalogues, small review literature, and depleted archival materials, the Arts Council’s Sculpture in the Home exhibitions of the 1940s and 50s have received little critical attention. Yet they offer illuminating evidence that alongside the Arts Council’s well known support of ‘public sculpture’, its early mission included a commitment to small-scale domestic sculpture.” They also offer important evidence that the exhibitions were “related to the reconstruction and modernisation of the home and family in post-war Britain.” – Robert Burstow “The sculpture in the home exhibitions: reconstructing the home and family in post-war Britain” in Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture, 2008. This essay was published to accompany the exhibition organised by the Henry Moore Institute SCULPTURE IN THE HOME: RE-STAGING A POST-WAR INITIATIVE Leeds Art Gallery 2 October 2008 – 4 January 2009.
Price: £30
Title: Sculpture in the Home
Author: Frank Dobson
Publisher: Arts Council
Date: 1946
Format: Stapled wraps
Pages: 12pp
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: The library of art historian Alastair Grieve
Collections:
Stock Number: RB02035
Catalogue of the 1st Arts Council “Sculpture in the Home” exhibition, held in 1946. List of 74 works, 5 monochrome plates. Artists include: Adrian Allison, Richard Bedford, Atri Brown, Frank Dobson, Mary Duras, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Anna Mahler, Henry Moore, Loris Rey, Auguste Rodin, Renée Sintenis, Elizabeth Spurr, John Smith, Aristide Maillol and many more.
Between 1946 and 1958 the Arts Council of Great Britain staged a series of travelling displays of contemporary sculpture designed to attract buyers of modest means.
Dr Robert Burstow has pointed out that “with their slim catalogues, small review literature, and depleted archival materials, the Arts Council’s Sculpture in the Home exhibitions of the 1940s and 50s have received little critical attention. Yet they offer illuminating evidence that alongside the Arts Council’s well known support of ‘public sculpture’, its early mission included a commitment to small-scale domestic sculpture.” They also offer important evidence that the exhibitions were “related to the reconstruction and modernisation of the home and family in post-war Britain.” – Robert Burstow “The sculpture in the home exhibitions: reconstructing the home and family in post-war Britain” in Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture, 2008. This essay was published to accompany the exhibition organised by the Henry Moore Institute SCULPTURE IN THE HOME: RE-STAGING A POST-WAR INITIATIVE Leeds Art Gallery 2 October 2008 – 4 January 2009.
Price: £30
Title: Sculpture in the Home
Author: Frank Dobson
Publisher: Arts Council
Date: 1946
Format: Stapled wraps
Pages: 12pp
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: The library of art historian Alastair Grieve
Collections:
Stock Number: RB02035
Catalogue of the 1st Arts Council “Sculpture in the Home” exhibition, held in 1946. List of 74 works, 5 monochrome plates. Artists include: Adrian Allison, Richard Bedford, Atri Brown, Frank Dobson, Mary Duras, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Anna Mahler, Henry Moore, Loris Rey, Auguste Rodin, Renée Sintenis, Elizabeth Spurr, John Smith, Aristide Maillol and many more.
Between 1946 and 1958 the Arts Council of Great Britain staged a series of travelling displays of contemporary sculpture designed to attract buyers of modest means.
Dr Robert Burstow has pointed out that “with their slim catalogues, small review literature, and depleted archival materials, the Arts Council’s Sculpture in the Home exhibitions of the 1940s and 50s have received little critical attention. Yet they offer illuminating evidence that alongside the Arts Council’s well known support of ‘public sculpture’, its early mission included a commitment to small-scale domestic sculpture.” They also offer important evidence that the exhibitions were “related to the reconstruction and modernisation of the home and family in post-war Britain.” – Robert Burstow “The sculpture in the home exhibitions: reconstructing the home and family in post-war Britain” in Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture, 2008. This essay was published to accompany the exhibition organised by the Henry Moore Institute SCULPTURE IN THE HOME: RE-STAGING A POST-WAR INITIATIVE Leeds Art Gallery 2 October 2008 – 4 January 2009.
Price: £30
Title: Sculpture in the Home
Author: Frank Dobson
Publisher: Arts Council
Date: 1946
Format: Stapled wraps
Pages: 12pp
Condition: Very Good
Provenance: The library of art historian Alastair Grieve
Collections:
Stock Number: RB02035
