Sculpture in the Home 1950-51

Catalogue of the second of the Arts Council “Sculpture in the Home” exhibitions, held in 1950-51. List of 86 works, 12 monochrome plates. Artists include: Robert Adams, Dora Gordine, Barbara Hepworth, Karin Jonzen, Rita Ling, Helen Meyer, F.E. McWilliam, Henry Moore, Eduardo Paolozzi, Elizabeth Spurr, Patricia Thoburn.

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.

Title: Sculpture in the home. Second exhibition, 1950-51
Author: Philip James
Publisher: The Arts Council of Great Britain
Date: 1950-51
Format: Stapled wraps
Condition: Fine
Provenance: The library of art historian Alastair Grieve
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Stock Number: RB02039