Eric Rogers ARCA (from c 1931)
Active: 1928 - 1935
Sculptor, teacher
He studied at Leeds School of Art and the Royal College of Art (1928-31). After which he established himself as an architectural sculptor in the Birmingham area and taught at West Bromwich School of Art.
Works
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Torso
May 1931 (Presumed)
Torso
1931 (Presumed)
Growth
1934 (Presumed)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, The Spring Exhibition, 1931
Multiple works
Exhibited at Society of Staffordshire Artists. First Annual Exhibition (The Museum, Pall Mall, Hanley), 1934
'Growth'
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1928
'Portrait Mask'
Exhibited at Twenty-Five Years of Birmingham Art (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery), 1935
6 November 1935 - 6 December 1935
Exhibited: 'Facade' (plaster, lent by the artist); and 'Kneeling Woman' (cream coloured pottery figure, on base of Austrian oak) - cat. nos 74-75 [summary].
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of Birmingham Art Circle
31 December 1931 - 1934
Described as a maker of 'sculpture'. Ceased to be a member in 1934 because he did not pay his subscription fees.
Student at Leeds College of Art
1927 (Circa)
Sources
Behind the Mosaic: one hundred years of art education
2003
p. 94, fn. 9
Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1928
1928
Cat. No. 191, p. 9
Minutes of meeting held at the Royal Society of Artists on Thursday 31 December 1931 Birmingham Art Circle
31 December 1931
p. 3.
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham. The Spring Exhibition, 1931
1931
p. 27.
Society of Staffordshire Artists. First Annual Exhibition, 27 October 1934
27 October 1934
p. 7.
The Art Circle, Register of Members to Date, 1879-2002 Birmingham Art Circle
2002 (Presumed)
Unpaged.
Twenty-Five Years of Birmingham Art, 1935 Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery Exhibition Catalogues
1935
Unpaged.
Citing this record
'Eric Rogers ARCA (from c 1931)', 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=msib4_1210072069, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
