DOI Heft:
No. 275 (February 1916)
DOI Artikel:Yockney, Alfred: Modern british sculptors: Some younger man
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21261#0029
THE CATAPULT
BY W. REID DICK
the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is a native
of Plymouth, proceeding from the Technical
School there to the Royal College of Art and from
thence to the Royal Academy Schools,! where he
secured the Gold Medal in 1901. Since then he
has done much excellent work, his Love and the
Vestal (p. 21) being a typical example. One
°f his small pieces, Pro Patria, has been bought
recently by the Queen, and his memorial to
Captain Scott, one of the latest additions to the
monuments in St. Paul’s Cathedral, was illustrated
m a recent number of this magazine.
Mr. Richard Garbe is widely known, not only
as a sculptor but as a teacher of modelling and
carving at the London County Council Central
School of Arts and Crafts. His work in connec-
tion with architecture includes groups on Thames
House, near Southwark Bridge, and the mediaeval
and modern compositions still in progress for the
Welsh National Museum, Cardiff. Intensity of
expression is apparent in his designs, for example
in The Man and the Masks (p. 25). Here is
a figure embodying thought and concentration.
“the age of imagination”
BY F. V. BLUNDSTONE
23
Modern British Sculptors
A group with a similar depth of meaning is The
Egoist, in which a man disputes ascendency with
an Egyptian Sphinx. It was Mr. Garbe’s first big
work and it gave him a secure place among the
rising men of his generation. His relief, Youth
and the Shadow (p. 24), is full of grim significance.
Among his works with a more tender sentiment
one remembers his Mother and Child, a group with
admirable intentions and due fulfilment.
Oil paintings and pastel drawings form part of
the work of Mr. S. M. Wiens, but sculpture is his
favourite means of expression. In the latter
category several interesting productions will be
remembered. First of all there is the Girl and
Lizard (p. 26) purchased by the Chantrey Trustees
from the 1907 Academy and now in the Tate
Gallery. It was a difficult pose to treat success-
fully, and the fact that the artist was able to perfect
BY W. REID DICK
the Victoria and Albert Museum. He is a native
of Plymouth, proceeding from the Technical
School there to the Royal College of Art and from
thence to the Royal Academy Schools,! where he
secured the Gold Medal in 1901. Since then he
has done much excellent work, his Love and the
Vestal (p. 21) being a typical example. One
°f his small pieces, Pro Patria, has been bought
recently by the Queen, and his memorial to
Captain Scott, one of the latest additions to the
monuments in St. Paul’s Cathedral, was illustrated
m a recent number of this magazine.
Mr. Richard Garbe is widely known, not only
as a sculptor but as a teacher of modelling and
carving at the London County Council Central
School of Arts and Crafts. His work in connec-
tion with architecture includes groups on Thames
House, near Southwark Bridge, and the mediaeval
and modern compositions still in progress for the
Welsh National Museum, Cardiff. Intensity of
expression is apparent in his designs, for example
in The Man and the Masks (p. 25). Here is
a figure embodying thought and concentration.
“the age of imagination”
BY F. V. BLUNDSTONE
23
Modern British Sculptors
A group with a similar depth of meaning is The
Egoist, in which a man disputes ascendency with
an Egyptian Sphinx. It was Mr. Garbe’s first big
work and it gave him a secure place among the
rising men of his generation. His relief, Youth
and the Shadow (p. 24), is full of grim significance.
Among his works with a more tender sentiment
one remembers his Mother and Child, a group with
admirable intentions and due fulfilment.
Oil paintings and pastel drawings form part of
the work of Mr. S. M. Wiens, but sculpture is his
favourite means of expression. In the latter
category several interesting productions will be
remembered. First of all there is the Girl and
Lizard (p. 26) purchased by the Chantrey Trustees
from the 1907 Academy and now in the Tate
Gallery. It was a difficult pose to treat success-
fully, and the fact that the artist was able to perfect