Harry Parr

Works

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Ryuson C. Matsuyama Kun

E. Trevelyan Turner, Esq.

Statuette
1921 (Presumed)
£15 15s.

Motherhood
1926 (Presumed)
£50

Primavera
1926

A Christ's Hospital Boy
1929 (Presumed)
£12 12s.

Nathaniel Sparks, Esq., MP
1929 (Presumed)
£50

Locations

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Address 54 Lamont Road London | View on map
1910 (Circa)

Address 14A Cheyne Row Chelsea London | View on map
1914 (Circa) - 1954 (Circa)

Address 14 Chelsea Farm House Milman Street London SW10 | View on map
1955 (Circa) - 1964 (Circa)

Studio located at The Studios, 13 Edith Terrace Chelsea London | View on map
1911 (Circa) - 1912 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at The Spring Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Eighteenth London Exhibition), 1915
'Ryuson C. Matsuyama Kun'

Exhibited at Twenty-second Exhibition of the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (London), 1917
Multiple works

Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists. First Annual Exhibition (The Museum, Pall Mall, Hanley), 1934
'Primavera'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1910 - 1964
Exhibited 38 times (27 times up to 1951), usually one to two works per year, 51 works in all

Exhibited at The Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921

Exhibited at Art Exhibitions of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Competitive Exhibits at the Patti Pavilion, 1926
26 July 1926 - 12 August 1926
Exhibited in Competition No.21

Exhibited at The Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1929-1930
4 November 1929 - 8 February 1930

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1935
Exhibited once - one work

Institutional and Business Connections

Member of Art Workers Guild
4 February 1927 - 1929
Resigned in 1929.

Studied at Burslem School of Art
1900 - 1920
See Haggar (1953), p. 32.

Teacher of modeling at Camberwell School of Art
September 1930 - June 1940
Listed as a teacher of evening classes in modelling for potters and sculptors.

Descriptions of Practice

Listed as medallist Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
Listed as a contemporary sculptor and medallist living in London. Forrer notes that Parr exhibited a bronze medal of Professor Lanteri at the Royal Academy, London, in 1912. See vol. 8, (1930), p. 114.

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Sculptor and Assistant Art Master', teaching at Woolwich Polytechnic and also 'Worker own account' and 'At home three days a week'

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Modeller Potter's Earth' (living with parents in Wolstanton, Staffordshire)

Sources

A Century of Art Education in the Potteries. With notes on the Artists, 1953 Local Studies
1953 (Circa)
p. 32 and p. 46.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1927, p.10, p.32; 1928, p.33; 1929, p.11.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.60.

Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, Coin, Gem, and Seal-Engravers, Mint Masters, &c., Ancient and Modern with References to their Works, B.C. 500 - A.D. 1900, Volume VIII, 1930 Biographical Dictionary of Medallists
1930
p. 114.

Catalogue for the Eighty-Fourth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1929
1929

Catalogue for the Seventy-Sixth Annual Exhibition of the Royal West of England Academy, 1921
1921

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, 1915, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W. (Eighteenth London Exhibition)
1915
p.56.

Catalogue of the Twenty-second Exhibition, 1917, held at the Grosvenor Gallery, 51a New Bond Street., W.
1917
p.64.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2001
Class: RG13; Piece: 2585; Folio: 9; Page: 10

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
Reference RG14PN372 RG78PN12 RD4 SD1 ED1 SN162

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
This is presumed to be the correct record: Name: Harry Parr Death Registration Month/Year: 1966 Age at death (estimated): 64 Registration district: Chelsea Inferred County: London Volume: 5a Page: 531

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Harry Parr Han-Feb-Mar 1882 Wolstanton, Staffs. Vol. 6b Page 107

England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Harry Parr Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1882 Registration District: Wolstanton Inferred County: Staffordshire Volume: 6b Page: 107

London County Council Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Peckham Road, S.E. Prospectus and Time-Table 1939-1940 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts Prospectuses
1939
p. 13.

London County Council Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts, Peckham Road, S.E. Prospectus and Time-Table for the Session 1930-1931 Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts Prospectuses
1930
p. 14.

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts Vol. V LAWR-SHER
1981
pp. 276-7

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 3, L-P. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1991 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1991
p. 338

The Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales. Catalogue of the Competitive Art Exhibition 1926
1926

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