Mrs Polly Hill Clarke
Died 1973
Active: 1930 - 1968
Sculptor
Works
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Little Girl
1948
Fidele
1948
Martin
1948
Little Girl
1951
Ellen
1951
Locations
Address 3 Edith Grove London England | View on map
1930 - 1968 (Circa)
Except for 1941-45 when at 226 Staines Road, Staines
Address 226 Staines Road Laleham-on-Thames Epsom England | View on map
1941 - 1945
p. 266
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Eighty-Seventh Annual Exhibition, 1948
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1930 - 1967
Exhibited 25 times (12 times up to 1951), one or two works per year (chiefly heads or portrait busts, many of them carved in wood).
Won prize Lady Feodora Gleichen Fund (Royal Academy of Arts, Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1922-1951
1944
One of two recipients of the prize in this year. Clarke was awarded £50 for two works: a carved head in cedarwood entitled 'Sheila', and 'Janet and Anita' in beechwood.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Edmund Thomas Wyatt Ware
1946 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Nominated by Muriel Wheeler
1946 (Presumed)
For membership of the Royal Society of British Sculptors
Citing this record
'Mrs Polly Hill Clarke', 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_1225380000, accessed 29 Sep 2023]