Gilbert Bayes
(April 4, 1872 - July 10, 1953) |
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Gilbert Bayes |
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London |
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English |
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April 4, 1872 |
| Death: |
July 10, 1953 |
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Biography
| He was the son of the painter and etcher Alfred Walter Bayes (1832-1909) and brother of the painters Walter Bayes (1869-1956) and Jessie Bayes (1878-1971). He studied at the City and Guilds Technical College and the Royal Academy School in London. His early work consists of reliefs and decorative objects, and bronze statuettes, some partly enamelled, which show the influence of Alfred Gilbert and the New Sculpture. After World War I his work became more stylized. He executed a number of large-scale reliefs including History of Pottery through the Ages (polychrome stoneware, 1938; London, V&A) for the headquarters of Doultons, the ceramics manufacturers, on Albert Embankment, London, and History of Drama through the Ages (artificial stone) for the Saville Theatre (now the MGM Cinema), Shaftesbury Avenue, also in London, works which exemplify the artists eagerness to experiment with new materials. He worked closely with Doultons from the early 1920s, the best-known result being Selfridges clock (1931), Oxford Street, London.Much of Bayess sculpture was of a decorative nature intended to be placed in gardens. He also worked in concrete, executing panels for the Concrete Utilities Bureau at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. Between about 1904 and 1948 he executed c. 20 medals, mostly struck, for the Home Office and for a variety of public and private bodies, including the medal for Cunard commemorating the first voyage of the Queen Mary in 1936. Less successful was the Great Seal and Counterseal of George V. In 1925 he was Master of the Art-workers Guild, and he later became President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.Writings Modelling for Sculpture. |
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