The Gleaner
Created by John Knox
Date: 1951
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: figure
Description: figure of farm girl gleaning wheat
Inscriptions
Thrift is the Gleaner Behind All Human Effort
Location: around base of statue
Notes: Commissioned by the Ulster Savings Committee for the Festival of Britain, 1951. During festival statue displayed in the grounds of the Ulster Farm & Factory Exhibition at Castlereagh, Belfast. After exhibition statue moved to grounds at Stormont. Ulster Savings Committee also considered possibility of reproducing replicas to award to local Committees & Savings Groups of outstanding merit.
Citing this record
'The Gleaner', 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=msib3_1266757941, accessed 01 Oct 2023]
