Hew Martin Lorimer CBE, RSA, FRBS
Born 22 May 1907
Died 1 September 1993
Active: 1936 - 1987
Country of birth and death: Scotland
Architectural sculptor, sculptor
Born in Edinburgh. Died in Craigmount Nursing Home, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife.
Locations
Address 11 Belford Mews Edinburgh | View on map
1936 (Circa) - 1949 (Circa)
Address Kellie Castle Pittenweem Fife | View on map
1946 (Circa) - 1987 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition, 1826-
1936 - 1987
Exhibited at the annual exhibition 25 times: 1936 (1 work), 1946 (1 work), 1947 (1 work), 1948 (2 works), 1950 (1 work), 1951 (1 work), 1952 (2 works), 1953 (2 works), 1956 (5 works), 1957 (1 work), 1959 (1 work), 1961 (1 work), 1962 (3 works), 1963 (1 work), 1964 (3 works), 1965 (1 work), 1966 (2 works), 1967 (1 work), 1968 (1 work), 1970 (1 work), 1974 (1 work), 1976 (1 work), 1980 (3 works), 1982 (2 works) and 1987 (1 work).
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1949
Exhibited one work
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1947
p. xxxvii
Elected RSA The Royal Scottish Academy
1957
p. xxxvii
Personal and Professional Connections
Daughter/son/child of Robert Stodart Lorimer
David M. Walker, 'Lorimer, Sir Robert Stodart (1864-1929)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/34600, accessed 26 Sept 2008]
Student of (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
1934 (Circa)
For three months
Studied under Alexander Carrick
1933 (Circa)
Studied with Elizabeth Strachan Dempster
1933 (Circa)
Traveled with Thomas W. Whalen
1932 (Circa)
Spent one month in Paris, a month in Florence and a month in Rome.
Publications
Contributed to The Lorimers. A family of the Arts in Fife
1983 (Circa)
An autobiographical profile
p. 43
Sources
British Phone Books, 1885-1984
2007
Year: 1949
Area: Edinburgh
Page: 142
Scottish Sculpture Archive Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990
1990
extensive file
The Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture
2004
p. 315
The Royal Scottish Academy Exhibitors 1826-1990: A dictionary of artists and their work in the Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy. Volume 3, L-Q
1991
p.71 and p.72
Who was Who
December 2007
‘LORIMER, Hew Martin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U173900, accessed 15 Jan 2009]
Citing this record
'Hew Martin Lorimer CBE, RSA, FRBS', 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=msib6_1211380135, accessed 22 Mar 2023]