Gilbert Bayes

"After a long period of neglect, the variety, technical quality and imaginative content of British twentieth-century figurative sculpture is now being appreciated anew. This book, the first full study and catalogue raisonne of the work of Gilbert Bayes, adds his name to the list." "A war memorial sculptor, a medallist of note, the creator of portrait panels and busts, and a great variety of figures and groups, Bayes was probably best known in his lifetime for his series of large scale low relief panels designed for architectural settings. Some of those, on the former Saville Theatre, on Lord's cricket ground, and from Doulton House (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum) are, like the Selfridge's Queen of Time clock, familiar landmarks in the career of a great all-rounder, a sculptor whose diversity and imagination marked the end of a long and honourable tradition, finally eclipsed by the narrow concerns of the modernists in the 1930s."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved