with Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York;
with Mrs Morton D. Joyce, December 1959
Exhibition History:
New York, Bertha Schaefer Gallery, Elisabeth Frink, 1959 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 6);
Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
Woking, The Lightbox, Ways of Seeing, 15 January – 13 March 2011;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Aylesbury, Bucks County Museum, Elisabeth Frink, 10 February – 21 April 2018;
Kendal, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Elisabeth Frink: Fragility and Power, 22 June – 29 September 2018;
Woking, The Lightbox, Elisabeth Frink: A Collector’s Passion, 13 October 2018 – 6 January 2019;
The Lightbox, Woking, Centrepiece, 17 July – 1 September 2019;
Woking, The Lightbox, Redressing the Balance: Women Artists from The Ingram Collection, 11 August – 20 September 2020
Literature:
Bryan Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonne, Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984, (another cast illustrated, no. 44);
A. Ratuszniak (ed.) Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-1993, London, 2013 (another cast illustrated, p. 62, no. FCR55)
Depictions of birds are a common theme in Dame Elisabeth Frink’s work. Her very early works of wounded birds gave way to strong and menacing animals. This bird, with its body pulled back like an archer’s bow, sits atop textured spindly legs which recall the work of Giacometti, cited as one of Frink’s great influences.
