Lynn Chadwick BRITISH, 1914-2003
Study Related To Bird III, 1958
Ink and wash
33 x 48.9 cm
13 x 19.3 inches
13 x 19.3 inches
A museum quality work closely related to one of his famous sculptures, half bird, half beast. Ken Johnson noted in his New York Times obituary of Chadwick, “In the 1950’s...
A museum quality work closely related to one of his famous sculptures, half bird, half beast.
Ken Johnson noted in his New York Times obituary of Chadwick, “In the 1950’s [Chadwick] developed a spiky vocabulary
of skeletal lines and rough planes organized into generalized images of people or animals.”
Chadwick rejected what he saw as the amorphousness of stone, preferring to work with iron because
it allowed him to “do a three-dimensional drawing…which has a very definite shape.” Chadwick’s beast
sculptures were an important contributor to his International Prize for Sculpture at the 1956 Venice
Biennale.
Ken Johnson noted in his New York Times obituary of Chadwick, “In the 1950’s [Chadwick] developed a spiky vocabulary
of skeletal lines and rough planes organized into generalized images of people or animals.”
Chadwick rejected what he saw as the amorphousness of stone, preferring to work with iron because
it allowed him to “do a three-dimensional drawing…which has a very definite shape.” Chadwick’s beast
sculptures were an important contributor to his International Prize for Sculpture at the 1956 Venice
Biennale.
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