Barry Flanagan
{{Short description|Welsh sculptor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2013}}
{{Infobox artist
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| birth_date = 11 January 1941
| birth_place = Prestatyn, Wales
| death_date = 31 August 2009 (aged 68)
| death_place = Santa Eulalia del Río, Ibiza, Spain{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/01/barry-flanagan-obituary|title=Barry Flanagan|first=Catherine|last=Lampert|date=1 September 2009|access-date=17 February 2017|work=The Guardian}}
| field = Sculpture
| training = Birmingham College of Art and Crafts (1957–1958)
Saint Martin's School of Art (1964–1966)
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| awards = Royal Academician (1991)
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1996)
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Barry Flanagan OBE RA (11 January 1941 – 31 August 2009) was an Irish-Welsh sculptor. He is best known for his bronze statues of hares and other animals.
Biography
Barry Flanagan was born on 11 January 1941 in Prestatyn, North Wales. From 1957-58, he studied architecture at Birmingham College of Art and Crafts. He studied sculpture at Saint Martin's School of Art in London from 1964 to 1966, and from 1967 to 1971 taught both at Saint Martin's and at the Central School of Art and Design.[https://www.waddingtoncustot.com/artists/35-barry-flanagan/biography Barry Flanagan biography], Waddington Custot Galleries website. Accessed October 2013.
He became an Irish citizen and lived in Dublin from 2000 to the year of his passing.{{Cite web|title=DITD012 Thinker on Rock {{!}} Dublin City Council|url=https://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ditd012-thinker-rock|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619152645/https://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/ditd012-thinker-rock|archive-date=19 June 2020|access-date=19 June 2020|website=Dublincity.ie}} Flanagan died on 31 August 2009, aged 68, from motor neurone disease in Santa Eulalia del Río, Ibiza, Spain.{{cite news| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/barry-flanagan-sculptor-known-for-his-distinctive-giant-bronzes-1781433.html| title=Barry Flanagan: Sculptor known for his distinctive giant bronzes| work=The Independent| date=4 September 2009}}
He was the subject of a South Bank Show in 1983 directed by Don Featherstone and a biographical film by Peter Bach, The Man Who Sculpted Hares: Barry Flanagan, A Life.{{cite news | title = The Man Who Sculpted Hares: Barry Flanagan, A Life | url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01mytts | access-date = 2 October 2012| work = BBC }}{{cite book|title=Barry Flanagan: Poet of the Building Site|first=Robin|last=Marchesi|date=1 September 2011|publisher=Edizioni Charta Srl|isbn=978-8881588244 }}
Works
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Castings of Flanagan's Thinker on a Rock are installed at Washington University in St. Louis,{{Cite web |title=Gateway Foundation |url=http://www.gateway-foundation.org/CityWide-ThinkerOnTheRock.aspx |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=www.gateway-foundation.org}}{{Cite web |date=2012-07-25 |title=Take Five: New Washington University curator focuses on public art |url=https://news.stlpublicradio.org/arts/2012-07-25/take-five-new-washington-university-curator-focuses-on-public-art |access-date=2022-09-20 |website=STLPR |language=en}} the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, Iowa,{{Cite web|url=https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM969N_Thinker_on_the_Rock_Des_Moines_IA|title=Thinker on the Rock - Des Moines, IA - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com|website=Waymarking.com}} Utrecht,{{Cite web|url=http://wikimapia.org/6442098/Thinker-on-Rock|title=Thinker on Rock - Utrecht|website=Wikimapia.org}} O’Connell Street in Dublin, the Philbrook Museum of Art, in Tulsa, OK,{{Cite web|last=Watts Jr.|first=James D.|date=2006-07-19|title=Hop to it|url=https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/hop-to-it/article_f9b68f94-56af-5cf3-b7f4-39d136a8c020.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619151641/https://www.tulsaworld.com/archive/hop-to-it/article_f9b68f94-56af-5cf3-b7f4-39d136a8c020.html|archive-date=2020-06-19|access-date=2020-06-19|website=Tulsa World|language=en}} and the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.){{cite web|title=National Gallery of Art - Sculpture Garden|url=http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/sculpture/sculpture9.shtm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100527180834/http://www.nga.gov/feature/sculpturegarden/sculpture/sculpture9.shtm|archive-date=27 May 2010|access-date=17 February 2017}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0006300.htm |title=Thinker on a Rock at the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. By Barry Flanagan located in James M. Goode's the Mall area |access-date=19 June 2020 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306015138/http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0006300.htm |url-status=dead }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.cambridge2000.com/gallery/html/P32019343e.html|title=Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden: Thinker on a Rock|website=Cambridge2000.com|accessdate=12 October 2022}}
Flanagan's hare statue, Large Left-Handed Drummer, was on display in Union Square, Manhattan from 18 February to 24 June 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.nycgovparks.org/sub_newsroom/daily_plants/daily_plant_main.php?id=20054|title=The Daily Plant : NYC Parks|access-date=17 February 2017}}
Flanagan's 1993 Large Mirror Nijinski, again with two hares, is displayed at the Skulpturen Park Köln, in Cologne.{{Cite web|title=KölnSkulptur 1 - Barry Flanagan|url=http://www.skulpturenparkkoeln.de/en/exhibition-koelnskulptur/koelnskulptur-1/14/42.html?ausstellungsview=1|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619225748/http://www.skulpturenparkkoeln.de/en/exhibition-koelnskulptur/koelnskulptur-1/14/42.html?ausstellungsview=1|archive-date=19 June 2020|access-date=19 June 2020|website=Skulpturenparkkoeln.de}}
Tate Britain held a retrospective show Early Works 1965–1982 from September 2011 to January 2012. This exhibition contained many examples of his less well known pieces using materials such as cloth and rope, as well as some early bronze hare sculptures for which he gained renown.
At an exhibition held by Sotheby's at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, in September–October 2012, fifteen of Flanagan's works were shown in a parkland setting. They included Large Nijinski on Anvil Point and Nijinski Hare, placed at opposite ends of the Canal Pond.
Flanagan donated a bronze horse statue, San Marco Horse, to Jesus College, Cambridge in 2009. Prior to this, it had been on exhibition in the college since 1988.
Selected solo exhibitions
- 2021 Barry Flanagan, Galerie von Bartha, Basel
- 2020 Barry Flanagan, Alchemy of the Theatre, Waddington Custot, London
- 2019 Barry Flanagan, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham{{cite web|url=https://www.ikon-gallery.org/event/barry-flanagan/|title=Barry Flanagan|date=25 October 2018|publisher=Ikon Gallery|access-date=3 October 2019}}
- 2011 Barry Flanagan: Works from 1964—1982, Tate Britain
- 2010 Barry Flanagan: Works 1966—2008, Waddington Galleries, London
- 2009 Paul Kasmin (Park Avenue Armory), New York
- 2009 Barry Flanagan: Hare Coursed, New Art Centre, Roche Court, Salisbury, Wiltshire
- 2008 Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida
- 2008 Waddington Galleries, London
- 2007 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
- 2006 Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, 1965-2005, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
- 1974 Projects: Barry Flanagan, Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 1966 Rowan Gallery, London
Bibliography
Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, Venice Biennale, British Council, 1982
Barry Flanagan: Sculpture, 1965-2005, Enrique Juncosa, Mel Gooding and Bruce Arnold, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2006
With Barry Flanagan, Travels through Time and Spain, Richard McNeff, The Lilliput Press, 2012
Barry Flanagan, Jo Melvin, Teresa Gleadowe, Mel Gooding, Bruce McLean, Waddington Custot, 2017{{Cite web|title=BARRY FLANAGAN MONOGRAPH - The Estate of Barry Flanagan|url=https://barryflanagan.com/estate/news/barry-flanagan-monograph.html|website=Barryflanagan.com|date=18 December 2017 |access-date=2021-07-17|language=en-US}}
See also
- Hare on Ball and Claw, Columbus, Ohio
References
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External links
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- The Estate of Barry Flanagan {{official|http://www.barryflanagan.com }}
- [https://www.waddingtoncustot.com/artists/35-barry-flanagan/ Waddington Custot] Estate of Barry Flanagan representative
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20131110012742/http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/academicians/sculptors/barry-flanagan-ra%2C107%2CAR.html Royal Academy of Arts]
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