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(Joseph) Hermon Cawthra RBS ARCA

Born 1886
Died 1 September 1971 (Circa)

Active: 1910 - 1963

Country of birth and death: England

Sculptor

Cawthra was born in Shipley, Yorkshire. He was a wood carver's apprentice (c.1901) and then an uncertified teacher (c.1911). He studied at Salts Art School in Shipley, the Leeds School of Art, the Royal College of Art and the Royal Academy Schools.

After the First World War he received a number of commissions for war memorials including: the bronze panels on the Bury War Memorial, Lancashire (unveiled 1924); the War Memorial at Bootle, Lancashire; and St. John on the memorial at Hackney Churchyard Gardens, Lower Clapton, Essex. Among his other major commissions are: the Earl of Meath Memorial at Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, 1934; a statuary group for the Burns Mausoleum in Dumfries, Scotland; the 'Mother and Child' in Bishop’s Park, Hammersmith, London; and relief work on Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Islington.

Wealth at death: £3,937 0s. 0d.
Probate date: 19 October 1971

Works

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Designs for Panel, Chimneypiece

Design for a Panel

Study of a Head

The Roisterer

Design for Music Panel

The Fledgeling
1935 (Circa)

Little Old Lady
1939

Leopard
1948

Saint George
1948

Affection
1948 (Circa)

Locations

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Address The Studio, 44 South Side London SW4 | View on map
1922 (Presumed) - 1929 (Presumed)

Address 90 Elystan Street London SW3 | View on map
1928 (Presumed) - 1932

Address The Studio, Elysium Place London | View on map
1932 (Circa) - 1945 (Circa)

Address c/o, Hull College of Art Anlaby Road Hull | View on map
1945 (Circa) - 1948 (Circa)

Address 65 York Avenue London SW14 | View on map
1971
Living at this address when he died.

Studio located at The Studios, 36 Maxwell Road Walham Green London SW | View on map

Studio located at 4 Fulham Park Gardens London SW | View on map
1948 - 1963
He is listed at the studio at this address

Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1910
Multiple works

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Exhibition of Modern Works by Yorkshire Artists, 1919-1920
Multiple works

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

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1928
'Head of a Girl'

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1929
Multiple works

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

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

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

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

Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1935
Multiple works

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

Exhibited at Leeds College of Art, 1846-1946 Centenary Exhibition, City Art Gallery, 1946
Multiple works

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
'Little Old Lady'

Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1948
Multiple works

Officer for Exhibition [of Sculpture] at Russell-Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth, 1948
1948
Opened the exhibition.

Took part in War Memorial Competition, Gwersyllt, Wrexham (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922
1922
Won the commission.

Won prize Landseer Scholarships (Royal Academy of Arts), 1884-1950
1913
Two years

Won prize Constance Fund, 1944-
1948

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 - 1963

Member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1921 - 1963

Member of Art Workers Guild
17 June 1927
Retired at unknown date only to rejoin in 1956.

Member of council Royal Society of British Sculptors
1931 - 1936

Student at Leeds College of Art
1907 - 1909
He was a West Riding Art (Craft) Scholar

Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1909 (Circa) - 1911 (Circa)
Listed as a student at the College for two years. Left the College in the 1910-1911 session and is listed as 'Assistant to Sculptor W. Broadbent': see 'Register of R. C. A. Students' (1907-1924), p. 36.

Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1912 (Presumed) - 1914 (Presumed)
Awarded a £10 second prize for a model of a design, in 1912. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1912', (1914), p. 31. In 1913, he won a first prize of £30 for a model of a design, and a two year Landseer Scholarship for Sculpture. See 'Annual Report, 1913', (1915), p. 29 and p. 31. The following year, Cawthra was awarded a first prize of £15 and silver medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life. See 'Annual Report, 1914', (1915), p. 37.

Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1922, 1929, 1937, 1944 and 1952.

Personal and Professional Connections

Friends with Peter Induni
It is assumed the two artists were friends as Cawthra took over Induni's studio in Elysium Place in 1932 and his studio at 4 Fulham Park Gardens c.1948

Nominated by William Robert Colton
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by Paul Raphael Montford
1921 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominated by George James Frampton
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Reid Dick
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Francis Derwent Wood
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Frederick William Pomeroy
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Charles Leonard Hartwell
April 1922
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Reginald Theodore Blomfield
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by (Edward) Alfred Briscoe Drury
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry Alfred Pegram
12 March 1929
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Llewellyn
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Walter Westley Russell
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Sydney Lee
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Francis Dodd
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Reid Dick
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William Curtis Green
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Henry George Rushbury
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Laura Knight
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Richard Louis Garbe
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
January 1937
For RA; unsuccessful.

Nominated by William McMillan
January 1944
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
January 1944 - February 1952
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1944 and 1952, both unsuccessful.

Nominated by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
January 1944
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.

Nominator of James Arthur Woodford
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Nominator of William James Bloye
1934 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors

Descriptions of Practice

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
'Wood carver's apprentice' and a worker

Occupation given in Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
'Uncertified assistant teacher' working for the county council

Sources

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Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1912, 1914 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1914
p. 31.

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1913, 1915 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1915
pp. 29, 31

Annual Report from the Council of The Royal Academy to the General Assembly of Academicians for the Year 1914, 1915 Royal Academy Annual Reports
1915
p. 37.

Art Workers Guild Annual Reports, 1913-1933
1927, p.10; 1929, p.24; 1930, p.27; 1931, p.27 (and lists of members' addresses for 1932 and 1933).

Beauty's Awakening: The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild (Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museum, Brighton), 1984
1984
p.52.

Behind the Mosaic: one hundred years of art education
2003
p. 35

Catalogue of the Exhibition of Modern Works by Yorkshire Artists, 1919
1919
Cat. Nos. 43, 94, pp. 10, 18, 30

Catalogue of the Leeds College of Art 1846-1946 Centenary Exhibition, 1946
November 1946
Cat. Nos. 40, 41, 42, p. 9

Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1910
1910
Cat. Nos. 706, 709, p. 59

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1928
1928
Cat. Nos. 190, 204, 206, pp. 9, 10

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1929
1929
Cat. No. 295, 386, p. 11, 14

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1930
1930
Cat. Nos. 141, 301, 302, pp. 7, 12

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1932
1932
Cat. Nos. 255, 305, 428, pp. 11, 13, 17

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1933
1933
Cat. Nos. 286, 438, pp. 12, 17

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1935
1935
Cat. Nos. 54, 55, p. 2

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1936
1936
Cat. Nos. 47, 48, p. 2

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition 1949
1949 (Presumed)
Cat. Nos. 235, 236, p. 9

Catalogue of the Yorkshire Artists' Exhibition, 1934
1934
Cat. No. 249, p. 10

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 4071 folio 156 page 21

Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911
2011
RG14PN27270 RG78PN1558 RD503 SD4 ED8 SN175

Find a Will
2014
Name: Cawthra, Joseph Hermon Death: 1 September 1971 Probate: 19 October 1971 Page: 99

List of Members: Royal Society of British Sculptors
2008

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1906-1927
1927
p.206.

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1927-1938
1938
p.96.

Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.18.

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 Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1931, to be Presented at the Twenty-Eighth Ordinary General Meeting, 1932
March 1932
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1932, to be Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Ordinary General Meeting, 1933
March 1933
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1934, to be Presented at the Thirty-First Ordinary General Meeting, 1935
March 1935
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1935, to be Presented at the Thirty-Second Ordinary General Meeting, 1936
March 1936
p. 2.

Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of Council, with Accounts for the Year Ending 31 December 1936, to be Presented at the Thirty-Third Ordinary General Meeting, 1937
March 1937
p. 2.

The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989. Volume 1, A-D. A Dictionary of Exhibitors at the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1990 The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts, 1861-1989
1990
p. 247

Citing this record

'(Joseph) Hermon Cawthra RBS ARCA', 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=msib5_1210297261, accessed 05 Jun 2023]

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