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Today, the “YBA” (Young British Artists) form a solid core in contemporary art. However, throughout the 20th century, British sculptors were always at the forefront, creating and defining Modernism. This lecture with Sue Eberle of will focus on the British sculptors represented in Meijer Gardens’ permanent collection including Moore, Gormely, Flanagan, Chadwick, Caro, Hepworth, Goldsworthy, Frink and Nash. Explore the answers to questions such as: What styles and aesthetics do these British sculptors share? What innovations do they bring to art? What makes them quintessentially British? Free with paid admission to Meijer Gardens. 


This event is part of the “Lynn Chadwick: In Contact” sculpture exhibition at Meijer Gardens open to the public October 9-January 3, 2010.

Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) was one of several talented British sculptors who burst upon the international art scene in the late 1950s. He established a critically acclaimed body of work that continued to develop well into the late 20th century. Inspired by the career of Henry Moore, Chadwick’s sculpture displays a fascinating evolution of personal images through powerful series of abstracted human figures, animals, birds and imaginary beasts. This retrospective exhibition, the first in the United States since the artist’s death in 2003, features 43 sculptures and 5 lithographs from the permanent collection of the Phillip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College. Beginning with the highly geometric and strongly linear figures and beasts of the 1950s, this exhibition follows the chronology of the master’s career through to the majestic and sensuous male and female forms of the 1980s. This exhibition is organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions in conjunction with Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.