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Adams, Robert [1917-1984. UK. Sculptor]
Adams, Robert [1917-1984. UK. Sculptor]
Robert Adams was born in Northampton, England on 5 October 1917 and studied at Northampton School of Art (1934-42) and at the Royal College of Art in London (1949-59). He died in Great Maplestead, Essex on 5 April 1984.
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Profile of Robert Adams courtesy of Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries:
In 1957, Robert Adams won a commission to design a sculpture for the city theatre at Gelsenkirchen in Russia. This towering, abstract concrete relief was his most important architectural work, and when he returned to his London studio in Pilgrims Lane, the memory of it changed his entire outlook on sculpture. Unlike his gently carved wood sculptures from his days at the Northampton School of Art, he began welding iron and bronze, cutting and joining together huge strips of metal as Julio Gonzalez had done before him. Furthermore, the growing public acceptance of abstract art after the Second World War allowed him a truly expressive use of material, unhindered by the restrains of representation.
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Profile of Robert Adams courtesy of Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries:
In 1957, Robert Adams won a commission to design a sculpture for the city theatre at Gelsenkirchen in Russia. This towering, abstract concrete relief was his most important architectural work, and when he returned to his London studio in Pilgrims Lane, the memory of it changed his entire outlook on sculpture. Unlike his gently carved wood sculptures from his days at the Northampton School of Art, he began welding iron and bronze, cutting and joining together huge strips of metal as Julio Gonzalez had done before him. Furthermore, the growing public acceptance of abstract art after the Second World War allowed him a truly expressive use of material, unhindered by the restrains of representation.
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Alastair Grieve, ‘Adams, Robert (1917–1984)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [Subscription service]
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Alastair Grieve, ‘Adams, Robert (1917–1984)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [Subscription service]
ART UK
Artist Biographies [Subscription service]
British Council
Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries
Royal Academy of Arts Collections
Tate
Wikipedia