Born
November 24, 1914
Barnes
Died
April 25, 2003
Lypiatt Park
Education
1926-32 Attended Merchant Taylor's School, London
Exhibitions
b>Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2011 'Lynn Chadwick', Osborne...
b>Selected Posthumous Exhibitions
2011 'Lynn Chadwick', Osborne Samuel, London
2005 'Out of the Melting Pot', Dexia Banque International, Luxembourg
2004 Banque Internationale a Luxembourg, Dexia
2004 'Pyramids and Beasts', Canary Wharf, London
2004 Osborne Samuel, London
2003-04 Tate Britain, London
Selected Exhibitions
1973 Four lithographs for Club S. Erasmo, Milan
1970 Made jewellery for Rebecca John
1968 Environmental sculpture for Milan Esposizione Triennale
1958 Represented in London Group 1914-64 Jubilee Exhibition
1958 Elected member of the Accademia di San Luca, Rome
1958 Elected member of the Accademia Firentina delle Arti e Disegno, Florence
1958 Received Carborundum Company's Sculpture Major and Minor Awards to produce circular sculpture in fibreglass, Manchester Sun, for the front of the Williamson Building for Life Science, University of Manchester
1958 Appointed Commander, Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the New Year Honours
1958 Two Winged Figures, monumental steel box structures, exhibited at Spoleto
1958 Artist in residence for a term at Ontario College of Art, Toronto
1958 Invited by Italsider S.p.A., Genoa, with Alexander Calder and David Smith, to carry out an open-air sculpture project for the Festival dei Due Monde at Spoleto, on recommendation of Giovanni Carandente, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Rome
1958 Won first prize, III Concorso Internazionale del Bronzetto, Padua
1958 Signed two year contract with Marlborough Fine Art, London; regularly exhibited with them
1958 Exhibited hors concours at VI Bienal de SPaulo, Brazil
1958 Prize-winner at VII Esposizione di Bianco e Nero, Lugano
1957 First International Solo Exhibition, New York
1956 Won the International Prize for Sculpture, XXVIII Biennale, Venice
1953 First solid sculptures produced
1953 one of twelve semi-finalists for The Unknown Political Prisoner International Sculpture Competition organised by the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London - awarded honourable mention and 250 prize.
1952 Second One-Man exhibition at Gimpel Fils, also shown at the Galerie de France, Paris.
1952 British Council's 'New Aspects of British Sculpture', exhibition for the XXVI Biennale, Venice. Member of the London Group
1951 Festival of Britain South Bank Exhibition: metal and wood mobile for Tower, Riverside Restaurant and stabile, Cypress, for the Regatta Restaurant Garden.
1951 Exhibited Green Finger (Mobile) at the second Open-Air Sculpture Exhibition, Battersea Park Festival Garden.
1951 Fisheater mobile commissioned by the Arts Council, shown at the RBA Galleries
1950 First one-man exhibition, Gimpel Fils, London
1950 Commissioned by Jane Drew to make a mobile for the Riverside Restaurant Tower and by Misha Black for a stabile, Cypress, to be placed in the garden of the Regatta
Restaurant, both for the Festival of Britain South Bank site.
1949-50 Exhibited with the London Group
1949 Small mobile for window of Gimpel Fils, London, as part of a mixed exhibition
1948 Mobile for Morris Furniture Company of Glasgow stand at British Industry's Fair
1947 First mobile shown at the Builder's Trades Exhibition, on the Aluminium Development Association's stand, which he had designed.
Honours and Awards
2004 Awarded the Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts,...
2004 Awarded the Goldhill Award for Sculpture, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2001 Elected a Senior Royal Academician, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1998 Created Honorary Fellow, Bath Spa University College, Bath
1995 Created Associate, AcadRoyale de Belgique, Belgium and Honorary Fellow, Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education
1993 Created Commandeur, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
1988 chairman of Jury, sculpture project for new Glaxo Building, Verona
1988 Appointed the Order of the Andreas Bello - First Class, Venezuela
1988 Invited by the Director of the XLIII Venice Biennale to contribute bronze, Back to Venice, in special international sculpture survey
1988 Inauguration of Hello Paris at Le Pontant de Paris
1984 Commissioned by the British Art Medal Society to design a medal, Diamond, struck by the Pobjoy Mint for the BAMS
1984 created Officier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France
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