Black Crab
Created by Bernard Meadows
Date: 1952
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: sculpture
Material: metal - bronze
Technique: cast
Description: An abstracted representation of a crab
Notes: Meadows became interested in the behaviour of crabs while stationed on the Cocos Islands in the South Indian Ocean during the Second World War. This sculpture, he explained, represented 'the distillation or essence of crabness'.
Makers, Owners and Exhibitors
Owned by Tate Gallery
Catalogue number: T03409. http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9422&searchid=10614 (accessed 2 September 2010)
Sources
Tate online: Art and Artists (previously General Collection)
http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9422&searchid=10614 (accessed 2 September 2010)
Citing this record
'Black Crab', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/object.php?id=ann_1283441638, accessed 05 Oct 2022]
