Kathleen Lady Kennet
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sculptures of bust and figures Art Work
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Kathleen Lady Kennet |
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Female |
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Lindrinck, Nottinghamsire |
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| Birth: |
1878 |
| Death: |
1947 |
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Quick Facts
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sculptures of bust and figures |
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bronze |
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Sculpture
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Biography
Kathleen Kennet forged a career as a sculptor of male nudes and portraits of the eminent men of her age, including George Bernard Shaw (1918, private collection), William Butler Yeats (1907. National Portrait Gallery), a number of politicians and her first husband, the Antarctic explorer Captain Scott, whom she commemorated in a full-length statue, dressed in his expedition clothes (1915, Waterloo Place, London). Kennet's own political stance was complex. She had become a success in the male dominated profession of sculpture, was the first woman member of the council of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, and, in photographs, appears dressed in a man's overalls. But despite her groundbreaking career, Kennet was, like her friend the politician H.H. Asquith, firmly against women's suffrage. Her diary records how, after a day arranging an exhibition of her work, she took part in an anti-suffrage demonstration at the Albert Hall, where, she noted, 'Several people were carried out kicking'.
During the 1914-18 war Kennet worked in a French hospital and in armaments factories. She modeled the faces of injured soldiers for plastic surgeons. Among the solo exhibitions of her work m London were those held at the Greatorex Gallery (1929), the Fine Art Society (1934) and Real's Mansard Gallery (1948). Her work was seen in 1999 at an exhibition at Dorich House (former home of Dora Gordine), and she was the subject of a biography written by her granddaughter Louisa Young (London 1995). |
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