Professor Ernest Arthur Gardner
Born 16 March 1862
Died 27 November 1939
Active: 1880 - 1939
Country of birth and death: England
Classical scholar, archaeologist, teacher
Yates professor of archaeology in the University of London, 1896, established a school of classical archaeology at University College. He was editor of the 'Journal of Hellenic Studies',1897-1932.
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Speaker at The Sculptor's Craft (Art Workers Guild), 1899
Speaker at Application of colour to Greek Sculpture and Architecture (Art Workers Guild), 1908
Speaker at Sculpture at Olympia (Art Workers Guild), 1910
Speaker at The Influence of Mathematics on Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1912
Speaker at Evolution of the Mediaeval Statue (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at Greek Drapery (Art Workers Guild), 1913
Speaker at The Horse in Design (Art Workers Guild), 1914
Speaker at European Bronzes (Art Workers Guild), 1925
Speaker at Beginnings of Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1926
Speaker at Bronze Casting (Art Workers Guild), 1928
Speaker at Animals in Art (Art Workers Guild), 1929
Speaker at Wood as a Sculptors' Medium (Art Workers Guild), 1931
Speaker at Reparation of Ancient Painting and Sculpture (Art Workers Guild), 1923
Sources
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1885-1900
1899, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1901-1912
1908, p.5; 1910, p.7; 1912, p.5.
Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1913, p.12; 1914, p.10; 1925, pp.6-7; 1926, p.4; 1928, p.8; 1929, p.8; 1931, p.8.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2004
J. M. C. Toynbee and H. D. A. Major, ‘Gardner, Ernest Arthur (1862–1939)’, rev. David Gill, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33327, accessed 4 Aug 2014]
The fifty-sixth annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1940
1940
p.20.
Citing this record
'Professor Ernest Arthur Gardner', 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/person.php?id=msib2_1214922197, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
