Ronald Moody

1900–1984

In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1930

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Biography

Ronald Moody (12 August 1900 – 6 February 1984) was a Jamaican-born sculptor, specialising in wood carvings. His work features in prestigious collections including the National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain in London, as well as the National Gallery of Jamaica. He was the brother of anti-racist campaigner Harold Moody and award-winning physiologist Ludlow Moody.

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Artworks

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Ronald Moody Johanaan

1936

On display at Tate Britain part of Walk Through British Art
Ronald Moody Midonz

1937
Ronald Moody The Onlooker

1958–62
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Ronald Moody The Colonel

1965
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Ronald Moody Orchid Bird

1968
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Ronald Moody Unknown Political Prisoner

1953
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Ronald Moody Marseille Figure

1940–3

Features

Art Term

Négritude

Négritude was an anti-colonial cultural and political movement founded by a group of African and Caribbean students in Paris in …
Art Term

Festac (Second Festival of Black Arts and Culture)

Festac (Second Festival of Black Arts and Culture) was an ambitious festival of arts, music, dance, literature and culture held …
Tate Papers

The Other Story and the Past Imperfect

Jean Fisher

The Other Story, 1989, the first retrospective exhibition of British African, Caribbean and Asian modernism, was received with derision …
Essay

A reputation restored: The rediscovery of sculptor Ronald Moody

Guy Brett

Self-taught wood-carver Ronald Moody, a former dentist born in Jamaica, is revealed as one of Britain's most remarkable Modernist sculptors …