Harold James Youngman FRBS

Works

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Retro Satanas

Mannequin

Thomas Called Didymus

Flying Fish

Portrait Bust

St George

Ishmael

St Christopher

Spring

Faunesse

Making a Film
1933 (Presumed)

Joy

Making a Film
1933 (Presumed)

The Spanish Shawl
1926 (Circa)

Thomas called Didymus
1929

Flying Fish
1929 (Circa)

St Christopher
1931 (Circa)

Speedway
1931 (Circa)

Making a Film
1933 (Circa)

St George and the Dragon
1938

Mother and Child
1938

Locations

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Address 54 Lamont Road London England | View on map
1911 (Circa)
Lodging at this address with the painter, Arthur Scott (born Hanley Staffordshire, c.1882)

Address 45 Hamilton Gardens St. John's Wood London England | View on map
1920 (Circa) - 1922 (Circa)

Address 18 Paulton's Square Chelsea London SW3 England | View on map
1923 (Circa) - 1925

Address 6 Edith Grove Chelsea London SW10 England | View on map
1929 (Circa) - 1968

Studio located at The Studio, 34 St John's Wood Terrace London NW England | View on map
1915 (Circa)

Studio located at 1 Cedar Studios Glebe Place London SW3 England | View on map
1926 (Circa) - 1927

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1949
'Mannequin'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1928
'Thomas Called Didymus'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1930
'Flying Fish'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1932
'St George'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1933
'Ishmael'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1934
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1935
'Making a Film'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1936
'Joy'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventieth Annual Exhibition, 1931
'St Christopher'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1926
Multiple works

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1929
'Flying Fish'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1931
'Speedway'

Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
1933
£100

Exhibited at Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland, 1938
1938

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1915 - 1956
Exhibited 22 times (20 times up to 1951), one or two works per year.

Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1922 - 1939
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 4 times: 1922 (1 work), 1935 (1 work), 1937 (2 works) and 1939 (2 works)

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1923 - 1938 (Presumed)
Became fellow in 1938.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1938 - 1967

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1967

Member of Art Workers Guild
6 February 1931 - 1968

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1941
Elected to the Council in 1941 in place of Joseph Else who was unable to take up the membership

Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1908 (Circa) - 1912
Listed as a student at the College for four years. Left the College in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as 'Sculptors Assistant to Sir [another initial is inserted here that is unclear in the manuscript but presumably W.] Goscombe John - R. A.': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 58.

Personal and Professional Connections

Assistant to William Goscombe John
1912 (Circa)
Left the Royal College of Art in the 1911-1912 session and is listed as 'Sculptors Assistant to Sir [another initial is inserted here that is unclear in the manuscript but presumably W.] Goscombe John - R. A.': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 58. Youngman's obituary in 'The Times' by Charles Wheeler confirms this connection.

Nominated by William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Thomas John Clapperton
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Albert C. Carter
1927 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of George Henry Ford
1944
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of Philip Lindsey Clark
1958 (Presumed)
For president of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Art Student'

Sources

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Nineteenth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1926
November 1926
p. 83

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twentieth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1929
November 1929
p. 71

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-first Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1931
November 1931
p. 61

Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-second Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1933
November 1933
p. 67 (436)

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1931, p.11 and lists of members' addresses 1932-1933.

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.64.

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1928
1928
Cat. No. 209, p. 10

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1930
1930
Cat. Nos. 271, 300, pp. 11, 12

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1932
1932
Cat. Nos. 301, 303, p. 13

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1933
1933
Cat. Nos. 263, 264, p. 11

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1935
1935
Cat. No. 307, p. 11

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1936
1936
Cat. No. 334, p. 11

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1949
1949 (Presumed)
Cat. Nos. 226, 233, pp. 8, 9

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1934
1934
Cat. Nos. 250, 256, pp. 10, 11

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN374 RG78PN12 RD4 SD1 ED2 SN620

England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Harold J Youngman Birth Date: abt 1886 Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1968 Age at Death: 82 Registration district: Wandsworth Inferred County: London Volume: 5e Page: 662

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
2010
Name: Harold James Youngman Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1887 Spouse Name: Dorothy Ruth Wainwright Spouse Age: 26 Record Type: Marriage Event Date: 1 Jun 1914 Parish: Hampstead St Stephen the Martyr Borough: Camden Father Name: Frederick Youngman Spouse Father Name: Joseph Wainwright Register Type: Parish Register

Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition Scotland 1938 The Fine Art Section of the Empire Exhibition
1938
P. 18 (150)

Register of Royal College of Art Students, 1907-1924 Royal College of Art
1907
p. 58.

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. VI SHERR-ZUL
1982
p. 347

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council and Accounts For the Year ending 21 December 1921. To be Presented at the Eighteenth Ordinary General Meeting, 1921
1921
p. 5

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1941, to be Presented at the Thirty-Eight Ordinary General Meeting, 1942
March 1942
p. 2.

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 4, R-Z
1991
p.481

The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
"Mr Harold Youngman." by Sir Charles Wheeler Times [London, England] 12 Oct. 1968: 12. The Times Digital Archive. Web. (accessed 1 Aug. 2012)

West Yorkshire, Non-Conformist Records, 1646-1985
2011
Name: Harold James Youngman Birth Date: 17 Oct 1886 Event Type: Baptism Father: Fredk Jas Youngman Mother: Beatrice Youngman Baptism Date: 24 Apr 1887 Archive Location: Bradford Reel Number: BNC9 Reference Number: 5D74/1