Desmond Broe
{{short description|Irish sculptor}}
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| name = Desmond Broe
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| nationality = Irish
| occupation = Sculptor
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| birth_date = 1921
| birth_place = Dublin, Ireland
| death_date = 16 September {{death year and age|1968|1921}}
| death_place = Dublin, Ireland
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Desmond Broe (1921 – 16 September 1968) was an Irish sculptor.
Life
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His father, Leo, was a sculptor, with the family sculpting business run from a premises in Harold's Cross, Dublin.{{Cite book|url=https://www.sculpturedublin.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ArtinParksFinalPDF.pdf|title=Art in Parks|publisher=Dublin City Council|year=2014|location=Dublin|pages=23}} His sister, Irene, was also a sculptor.{{Cite web|title=BROE Desmond 1921-1968 {{!}} Artist Biographies|url=https://www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/broe-desmond|access-date=3 March 2021|website=www.artbiogs.co.uk}}
Broe attended the National College of Art and Design, and won the Taylor Scholarship in 1943 for modelling. His work was part of the sculpture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/920786 |title=Desmond Broe |work=Olympedia |access-date=26 August 2020}} His work was exhibited alongside his sister and father, as well as May Power, at the 1955 Institute of the Sculptors of Ireland exhibition in the Hugh Lane Gallery.{{Cite journal|last=Corkery|first=Seán|date=1955|title=Two Exhibitions|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27656707|journal=The Furrow|volume=6|issue=6|pages=383–386|jstor=27656707|issn=0016-3120}} One of his most notable works in a plaque to Patrick and William Pearse, erected on their former home at 27 Pearse Street. He also carved the headstone at the family's burial plot in Deans Grange Cemetery,{{cite web|title=Deansgrange War Graves|url=http://www.irishmedals.ie/deansgrange.php|access-date=4 March 2021|website=www.irishmedals.ie|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225194241/http://irishmedals.ie/deansgrange.php|url-status=dead}} and the IRA Memorial in Athlone.{{Cite web|last=|title=IRA Memorial, Custume Place, ATHLONE, Athlone, WESTMEATH|url=https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15009271/ira-memorial-custume-place-athlone-athlone-county-westmeath|url-status=live|access-date=2 April 2021|website=Buildings of Ireland|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617162236/https://www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/15009271/ira-memorial-custume-place-athlone-athlone-county-westmeath |archive-date=17 June 2020 }}
Broe's son, Damian, took over the family sculpting business which was later known as Monumental Sculptors.{{Cite web|title=National Irish Visual Arts Library: Broe, Dimitri|url=http://www.nival.ie/collections/artists-database/view/artist/name/broe-dimitri/|access-date=3 March 2021|website=www.nival.ie}}
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Category:20th-century Irish sculptors
Category:20th-century Irish male artists
Category:Art competitors at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Artists from Dublin (city)
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