Lynn Chadwick

b. 1914 and died 2003

Lynn Chadwick was an important British expressionist sculpture of welded iron and bronze. Chadwick’s work was often described as an amalgam of Modernist abstraction, existential despair and human representation. He used construction and assemblage methods in his sculptures. In his obituary in the New York Times they described his sculptures as, “Clad in rough drapery with geometric, pyramidal heads, these works blended Surrealism, the angst of Alberto Giacometti and the monumentalism of Henry Moore.” Despite seeing various but diverse artists’ influence in his work, Chadwick was able to carve out his own unique vocabulary expressing anxiety, pain and rage and used the generic shapes of people or animals to convey these ideas.