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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 Untitled

    1961
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  • Robert Adams Screen I

    1962–3
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  • Robert Adams Screen II

    1962–3
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  • Robert Adams Screen III

    1962–3
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  • Robert Adams Screen Form

    1973
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  • Robert Adams Untitled

    1975
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  • Robert Adams [title not known]

    1949
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  • Robert Adams [title not known]

    1949
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  • Robert Adams Nine studies, in green ink with black outlines and shading, of abstract standing figures

    [c.1949–51]
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  • Robert Adams Five studies for abstract, skeletal, standing figures

    [c.1949–51]
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  • Robert Adams Northampton Sketchbook 3

    [c.1947]
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  • Robert Adams Sketchbook [studies of carved and welded sculptures]

    [c.1952–7]
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