Alan Bridgwater ARBSA (from 1937) member 1950

Works

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Startled Doe
1937 (Presumed)

Unemployed
1937 (Presumed)

Boar
1938 (Presumed)

Father time
1942

Head
1943

Portrait of the artist
1944

The copper kettle, St Ives
1944

Flying Torso
1945 (Presumed)

Bernard Hill, Esq.
1946 (Presumed)

W. T. Benslyn, Esq., FRIBA
1948 (Presumed)

Andrew McLaren Young Esq.
1949 (Presumed)

Leslie Norris, Esq.
1950 (Presumed)

Julia
1950 (Presumed)

Pisces
1950 (Presumed)

Startled Doe
1951 (Presumed)

William T. Benslyn, Esq., FRIBA
1951 (Presumed)

Major Lindsay Bullivant, FRIBA
1951 (Presumed)

Locations

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Address Woodhouse Farm Studio Tenal Lane Birmingham | View on map
1937 (Presumed) - 1938 (Presumed)

Address 78 Wellington Road Edgbaston Birmingham | View on map
1942 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1937
Multiple works

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1938
'Boar '

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1945
'Flying Torso'

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946
'Bernard Hill, Esq.'

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1948
'W. T. Benslyn, Esq., FRIBA'

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1949
'Andrew McLaren Young Esq.'

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1950
Multiple works

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951
'Startled Doe'

Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1951
'Major Lindsay Bullivant, FRIBA'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred- and-Sixteenth, 1942
'Father time'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Seventeenth, 1943
'Head'

Exhibited at The Exhibition of The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, One-Hundred-and-Eighteenth, 1944
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Modern Group Third Exhibition, 1927
March 1927

Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1937 - 1962
Exhibited 12 times (4 times up to 1951), one or two works per year.

Exhibited at Exhibition of Works by the Birmingham Group, 1938
7 March 1938 - 19 March 1938
Exhibited 'Old Clown' (bronze), 'Startled Dove' (plaster). The works are undated in the catalogue (cat. nos 100-1).

Institutional and Business Connections

Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1948 - 1961

Elected ARBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1937 - 1948
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as an Associate member in Spring 1937.

Elected RBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1948 - 1950
First listed in the Society's exhibition catalogues as a full Member in Autumn 1948. Still listed as Member in Autumn 1950.

Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1961 - 1962

Member of The Artist-Craftmen's Group
1927 (Presumed)

Member of Birmingham Art Circle
1934 - 1941
Listed as a 'sculptor' in the 'Register of Members' (1879-2002).

Teacher of modeling at Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1935 - 1949
Teacher of Modelling and Sculpture.

Personal and Professional Connections

Apprenticed to William James Bloye
also John Poole and Raymond Kings

Sources

Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 13 September 1948 College of Art and Branch Schools
1948

Central School of Arts and Crafts, Margaret Street, Birmingham. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 13 September 1937 Birmingham School of Art Programmes
1937

Central School of Arts and Crafts, Margaret Street, Birmingham. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 14 September 1936 Birmingham School of Art Programmes
1936

Central School of Arts and Crafts, Margaret Street, Birmingham. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 16 September 1935 Birmingham School of Art Programmes
1935

City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts Prospectus for the Session Commencing 15 September 1947 College of Art and Branch Schools
1947

City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts Prospectus for the Session Commencing 16 September 1946 College of Art and Branch Schools
1946

City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts Prospectus for the Session Commencing 17 September 1945 College of Art and Branch Schools
1945

City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 18 September 1939 Birmingham School of Art Programmes
1939

City of Birmingham College of Arts and Crafts. Prospectus for the Session Commencing 19 September 1938 Birmingham School of Art Programmes
1938

Exhibition of Works by the Birmingham Group, 1938 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogues
1938
Unpaged.

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Public Sculpture of Birmingham: Including Sutton Coldfield Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, National Recording Project
1998
p. 185

Royal Academy Exhibitors 1905-70: A Dictionary of Artists and their Work in the Summer Exhibitions of the Royal Academy of Arts, Vol. I A-Car
1973
p. 193

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1945
1945
p. 5.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1948
1948
p. 13.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1948
1948
p. 6.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1949
1949
p. 12.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Autumn Exhibition, 1950
1950
pp. 6, 16

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1951
p. 14.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Festival of Britain Exhibition, 1951 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1951
p. 15.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1937 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1937
p. 24.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1938 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1938
p. 22.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Autumn Exhibition, 1946 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1946
p. 13.

Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Spring Exhibition, 1937 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
May 1937
p. 3.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending the 31st December, 1948, to be Presented at the Forty-Fifth Ordinary General Meeting, 1949
March 1949
p. 3.

The Art Circle, Register of Members to Date, 1879-2002 Birmingham Art Circle
2002 (Presumed)
Unpaged.

The Modern Group Third Exhibition, March 1927 Ruskin Galleries
March 1927
p. 4.

The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 1, A-D
1991
p. 176