Edgar Silver Frith

Works

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Two Cats
1933

The Wrestler
1933 (Circa)

Dancers
1935

Locations

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Address 1 Ashurst Street Battersea London | View on map
1891 (Circa)

Address 2 Bowerdean Street Fulham London | View on map
1901 (Circa)

Address 51 Rushholme Road London SW15 | View on map
1911 (Circa)

Address 4 Limerton Street Chelsea London | View on map
1928 - 1929

Address 124 Kennington Park Road London SE11 | View on map
1929 - 1934 (Presumed)

Address 11A Trafalgar Square Chelsea London | View on map
1930 (Circa)

Studio located at Elgin Studio Trafalgar Square London | View on map
1923 (Circa) - 1928 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
Multiple works

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
'Two Cats'

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1914
Two years

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
30 March 1932 - 1943
Name was removed from list in 1943; rejoined in 1957.

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1932 - 1961
Removed from membership between 1943-1957 when renominated

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1961 - 1974

Member of Art Workers Guild
2 February 1923 - 1955
Resigned at unknown date, rejoined in 1955.

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1914 (Presumed)
Awarded a two year Landseer Scholarship for sculpture in 1914. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1914', (1915), p. 37.

Teacher at South London Technical School of Art (also Lambeth School of Art and City and Guilds of London Art School)
1929
Frith succeeded Thomas Tyrell as teacher of modelling on the latter's death in 1929. Edgar continued the long-standing connection between his father and the school - William Silver Frith taught there between 1880 and 1924.

Personal and Professional Connections

Daughter/son/child of William Silver Frith

Granddaughter/grandson/grandchild of Henry Frith

Nominated by Edgar Allan Howes
1932 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Alfred James Oakley
1932 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by E. Roland Bevan
1957 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Harold Wilson Parker
1957 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Estcourt James Clack
1940 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Related to E. Roland Bevan
Bevan was the brother-in-law of Edgar Silver Frith

Descriptions of Practice

Listed under Sculptors The London Directory, 1930 Post Office/Kelly London Directories

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Student assisting in Father's business' and a worker

Sources

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1914, 1915 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1915
p. 37.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1923, p.11 and all lists of members' addresses until 1933.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.54.

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1891
2004
RG12 piece 420 folio 34 page 1

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2009
RG14PN2401 RG78PN80 RD26 SD7 ED10 SN20

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Edgar Silver Frith Birth Date: 1 Jan 1890 Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1974 Age at Death: 84 Registration district: Forest of Dean Inferred County: Gloucestershire Volume: 7b Page: 1115

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

London, England, Births and Baptisms, 1813-1906
2010
Name: Edgar Silver Frith Record Type: Baptism Baptism Date: 30 Mar 1890 Father's Name: William Silver Frith Mother's Name: Isabel Jane Frith Parish or Poor Law Union: Battersea St Mary Borough: Wandsworth Register Type: Parish Registers

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1932, to be Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1933
March 1933
p. 4.

The fifty-first annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1935
1935
p.33.

The London Directory, 1930 Post Office/Kelly London Directories
1930
p. 1354