Kenneth Armitage: [exhibition] May 1962, Marlborough Fine Art [and] the New London Gallery

Marlborough Fine Art Limited. Good. 1962. Illustrated Card Cover. 8.25" By 9" Tall. Illustrated Card Cover creased. Numerous photographs. Small crease to upper corners. Numerous photographs. Toby TrevesKenneth Armitage was a sculptor of the human body. For over fifty years he used his prodigious sculptural imagination to make figurative work that had ‘an instinctive concern with a human condition or attitude’.1 It was an ambition shared by many artists of his generation and one that was given considerable critical support in the early part of his career.Renowned for his figurative works, Kenneth Armitage came to international attention back in 1952 as one of a group of young British sculptors who were pushing the boundaries. His sculptures, fragmented and abstract, proved powerful and emotive despite their distinct economy in detail and unforgiving geometric form. Moon Figure, Kenneth Armitage He had in the 30s, following in the steps of Barbara Hepworth whose estate The New Art Gallery now represents, landed the Gregory Fellowship and attended Leeds college of Art on a scholarship. With World War 11 behind him he took up the post as head of sculpture at the Bath Academy of Art in Corsham where he stayed for the next decade. .