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Bernard Meadows

1915–2005

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Biography

Bernard Meadows (19 February 1915 – 12 January 2005) was a British modernist sculptor. Meadows was Henry Moore's first assistant; then part of the Geometry of Fear school, a loose-knit group of British sculptors whose prominence was established at the 1952 Venice Biennale; a professor of sculpture at the Royal College of Art for 20 years; and returned to assist Moore again in his last years.

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Geometry of Fear

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Standing Figure

Bernard Meadows
1951

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Bernard Meadows
1976
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Untitled

Bernard Meadows
1976
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Four Reliefs

Bernard Meadows
1958

Black Crab

Bernard Meadows
1951–2

Crab

Bernard Meadows
1952

Lovers

Bernard Meadows
1980

Large Flat Bird

Bernard Meadows
1957
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Letter from Kenneth Armitage to Joan Moore

Bernard Meadows, recipient: Joan Augusta Monro Moore
[c.1953–5]
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