Robert Adams

1917–1984

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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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Robert Adams Space Construction with a Spiral

1950
Robert Adams Figure

1949
Robert Adams Whiteprint

1971

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Robert Adams Large Screen Form No. 2

1962
Robert Adams [title not known]

1949

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Robert Adams [title not known]

c.1954

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Robert Adams Screen Form

1973

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Robert Adams Screen III

1962–3

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