Woman on Boat, 1953

with Curt Valentin Gallery, New York;

with Vera G. List, February 1955;

with Jonathan Clark, London, 2005;

with The Robert Devereux Collection of Post-War British Art

London, Hanover Gallery, Reg Butler, April – June 1954 (illustrated as Boat in the exhibition catalogue, no. 26);
New York, Curt Valentin Gallery, Reg Butler, January – February 1955 (illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, no. 23);
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, 6 March – 15 April 2012;
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from the Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Somerset, Hestercombe Gallery, A Personal Passion, 25 April – 5 July 2015;
Woking, The Lightbox, Bodies! The Ingram Collection, 21 November 2015 – 31 January 2016;
London, Royal College of General Practitioners, Health and the Body, 3 March – 29 May 2016;
Hastings, Jerwood Gallery, Century: 100 Modern British Artists, 23 October 2016 – 8 January 2017

Margaret Garlake, Sculpture of Reg Butler, Henry Moore Foundation, 2006 (no. 126, p. 138, RB106)

Reg Butler studied as an architect and later trained as a blacksmith during the Second World War. The experience and understanding of metals he gained during this time was to be useful with the number of forged, cast and welded sculptures that he produced in the early 1950s. Butler produced a series of figurative pieces during this period which secured his international reputation, including Woman on Boat in 1953, which focuses on Butler’s exploration of the female figure. This piece is an early example of Butler’s use of shell bronze, a light metal which is easy to work with.