Pauline Boumphrey
Pauline Boumphrey | |
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| Born | Pauline Firth 11 October 1886 Boston, USA |
| Died | 25 January 1959 (aged 72) New York, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Known for | Sculpture |
Pauline Boumphrey (née Pauline Firth, later Pauline Firth Haworth; 11 October 1886 – 25 January 1959) was an American sculptor who spent the majority of her career working in Britain.[1]
Biography
Boumphrey was born in Boston in Massachusetts but was educated in Britain, attending Roedean School on the English south coast.[2] She settled in London and later lived at Sandiway in Cheshire.[3]
Boumphrey specialised in statuettes and small group compositions, often in bronze, and often of equine subjects.[3][1] In 1925 she was awarded an honourable mention for a piece she showed at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris.[4] Boumphrey also exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Glasgow and Edinburgh.[1][3] She was a regular exhibitor with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and was elected an associate member of that Academy in 1925.[2] Among the works she exhibited in Manchester was a 1942 design for a war memorial to the civilian victims of the Blitz.[5] Boumphrey died in New York in 1959.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Mrs JW Pauline Boumphrey". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ a b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
- ^ a b c James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club.
- ^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini-Bulow. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
- ^ University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Design for a Memorial to the Women and Children Killed by Enemy Action 1939-1942". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
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