This final volume in the British Sculptors and Sculpture series
addresses the work of the important but neglected British sculptor
Francis Derwent Wood RA (1871-1926). A student of Edouard Lanteri
at the Royal College of Art, Derwent Wood's early artistic career
was distinguished. His reputation grew rapidly and a period as
Director of Modelling at the Glasgow School of Art saw him working
on public commissions with many of the city's most important
architects. Simultaneously, he built his London practice,
perfecting the art of the rapidly executed, observationally astute
portrait bust, and becoming a well-connected member of the Chelsea
set. He exhibited at the Royal Academy every year from 1895 until
his death in 1926, becoming a full Academician in 1920. During the
First World War he carried out pioneering work in the field of
facial prosthetics. He was appointed Professor of Sculpture at the
Royal College of Art in 1918, where Henry Moore was amongst his
many pupils. Derwent Wood's Machine Gun Corps memorial at Hyde Park
Corner in London, completed in the year of his death, is amongst
the best-known and most consistently reviled sculptures in Britain.
Matthew Withey offers readers a subtle and layered interpretation
of the career that led up to this iconic and misunderstood work,
together with a comprehensive catalogue of Derwent Wood's diverse
body of work.
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