(Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt
Other names: Mrs Huxley-Jones, Mrs Eric Gordon
Born 1909
Died 1995
Active: 1933 - 1969
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor, ivory carver, wood carver
Born in West Bromwich. She studied at Wolverhampton School of Art and with Richard Garbe at the Royal College of Art. He is said to have given her his ivory working tools at the end of his career. Holt worked in a variety of media but was particularly known as a sculptor in ivory. Her work in this medium is discussed by Carson I.A. Ritchie in 'Modern Ivory Carving', New Jersey, 1972, p. 12.
Holt was married to the sculptor, Thomas Bayliss Huxley-Jones for about thirty years and they lived in Aberdeen and Essex. After Huxley-Jones' death in 1968, Holt married Bishop Eric Gordon, the author of a history of Eynsham Abbey. They lived in Eynsham near Oxford for the remainder of their lives. Holt carved a St Leonard for the local parish church.
Works
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Statuette
1933 (Presumed)
Panel
1935 (Circa)
Ivory Carving
1937
The Annunciation
1946 (Presumed)
The Forester
1946 (Presumed)
Pisa
1946 (Presumed)
Goat
1948 (Presumed)
Torso
1951 (Circa)
Magnolia
1951
Locations
Address The Rosary Franchise Street Wednesbury | View on map
1933 (Presumed) - May 1933 (Presumed)
Address 82 Stanley Street Aberdeen | View on map
1938 (Circa)
Address West Park Primrose Hill Avenue Cults | View on map
1939 (Circa) - 1948 (Circa)
Address High House Broomfield Chelmsford | View on map
1949 (Circa) - 1969 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Awarded Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1948
Won this for her ivory statuette entitled 'Mother and Child', which was exhibited a the Royal Academy of Arts in 1947.
Exhibited at Royal Society of Artists Birmingham, The Spring Exhibition, 1933
Multiple works
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 1st Spring Exhibition for Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1946
'Pisa'
Exhibited at Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Spring Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1948
'Goat '
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
'Panel'
Exhibited at Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1938 - 1969
Exhibited 29 times (12 times up to 1951), usually one or two works per year.
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
30 March 1943
Served as a Member of the Council.
Personal and Professional Connections
Friends with Mary Gwenllian Gibson
Gibson and Holt were part of a circle of artists and friends who met in Robert Jackson's Castle Street studio. Holt gave a portrait of Mary Gibson by Emerson to Wolverhampton Art Gallery.
Nominator of Albert Willetts
1950
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Studied under Richard Louis Garbe
Presume at the Royal College of Art
Wife/husband/spouse of Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
1934 - 1969
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1935
November 1935
p. 70
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Fourth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1937
November 1937
p. 69
England & Wales Marriages, 1538-1940
2002
First name(s) ROSE G
Last name HOLT
Marriage quarter 3
Marriage year 1934
Registration month -
MarriageFinder™ ROSE G HOLT married
THOMAS B JONES
Spouse's last name JONES
District BIRMINGHAM
District number -
County Warwickshire
Country England
Volume 6D
Page 1697
Record set England & Wales marriages 1837-2008
Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records
Record collection Marriages & divorces
Collections from Great Britain
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists 1st Spring Exhibition for Oil Painting and Sculpture, 1946
1946
p. 5.
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Spring Exhibition of Oil Paintings and Sculpture, 1948
1948
p. 13.
Royal Society of Artists Birmingham. The Spring Exhibition, 1933
1933
p. 16.
Citing this record
'(Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt', 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_1210667809, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
