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Robert Adams

1917–1984

Space Construction with a Spiral 1950
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13 artworks by Robert Adams
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Biography

Robert Adams (5 October 1917 – 5 April 1984) was an English sculptor and designer. Whilst not widely known outside of artistic circles, he was nonetheless regarded as one of the foremost sculptors of his generation. In a critical review of a retrospective mounted by the Gimpel Fils gallery in London in 1993, Brian Glasser of Time Out magazine described Adams as "the neglected genius of post-war British sculpture", a sentiment echoed by Tim Hilton in the Sunday Independent, who ranked Adams' work above that of his contemporaries, Ken Armitage, Reg Butler, Lynn Chadwick and Bernard Meadows.

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Artworks

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  • Untitled

    Robert Adams
    1961
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  • Screen I

    Robert Adams
    1962–3
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  • Screen II

    Robert Adams
    1962–3
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  • Screen III

    Robert Adams
    1962–3
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  • Screen Form

    Robert Adams
    1973
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  • Untitled

    Robert Adams
    1975
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  • [title not known]

    Robert Adams
    1949
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  • [title not known]

    Robert Adams
    1949
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Sketches, letters, etc.

  • Nine studies, in green ink with black outlines and shading, of abstract standing figures

    Robert Adams
    [c.1949–51]
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  • Five studies for abstract, skeletal, standing figures

    Robert Adams
    [c.1949–51]
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  • Northampton Sketchbook 3

    Robert Adams
    [c.1947]
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  • Sketchbook [studies of carved and welded sculptures]

    Robert Adams
    [c.1952–7]
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