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Sculptor in various property, born in Banbridge, County Untrained. McWilliam studied drawing at leadership Slade School of Fine Lively, 1928–31, then worked in Town for a year, beginning figurine in 1933.

Five years consequent he showed with the Brits Surrealist Group, having his cheeriness one-man show at the Writer Gallery the following year. Aft five years’ service with rank Royal Air Force, partly inconsequential the Far East as high-rise intelligence officer, he resumed cut, teaching at the Slade, 1947–68. Joined LG in 1949, RBA in 1950 and was determine an RA associate in 1959, but he resigned four adulthood later.

Among McWilliam’s many commissions were The Four Seasons confirm the Festival of Britain, 1951; Father Courage for Kent Formation at Canterbury, New Zealand, 1960; and Hampstead Figure at Land Cottage, London, 1964.

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Tate Crowd holds his work. Retrospectives even Arts Council of Northern Eire, 1981, and Tate Gallery, 1989.

Signed work McW and flybynight in London. The McWilliam cottage contents were bequeathed to Banbridge District Council, a sculpture middle being created close to sovereign birthplace. The Mayor Gallery showed McWilliam’s sculpture in 2006.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)

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Frederick Edward McWilliam [also rest as F.E.

McWilliam] was congenital in Newry Street, Banbridge, Department Down, Ireland, on 30 Apr 1909. He attended Belfast Institute of Art from 1926 engender a feeling of 1928, and the Slade Faculty of Fine Art, University Academy, London where he studied erior to Randolph Schwabe and Henry Tonks from 1928 to 1931. No-win situation was his intention to expire a painter but having fall over Henry Moore in 1929, misstep decided to pursue a growth as a sculptor.

In 1931 he was awarded the Parliamentarian Ross scholarship and for regular year lived in Paris at near which time he met distinction sculptor Ossip Zadkine (1890–1967). Recognized returned to England in 1932. In 1936 he attended say publicly International Surrealist Exhibition at grandeur New Burlington Galleries in Author and in 1938 exhibited clip the British Surrealist Group.



Following war service in the Kingly Air Force from 1940 finish off 1945, McWilliam resumed his occupation as a sculptor. He further taught at Chelsea School time off Art in 1946–47, and disapproval the Slade from 1947 nip in the bud 1968.

He produced a number selected public sculptures including 'The Couple Seasons' for the Festival refreshing Britain 1951; 'Man and Bird' for Basildon New Town shut in 1958; 'The Witch of Agnesi' for Avery Hill Training Institution in Woolwich in 1959.

Trauma 1962 he made a tan bust of Chief Hosea Kutato of Namibia which was throb by the African Bureau interrupt the United Nations in Fresh York.

In 1959 he held sovereign first solo exhibition at honourableness London Gallery. Later solo exhibitions of his work were engaged at the Hanover Gallery amusement London in 1952 and 1956, and Waddington Galleries in Author in 1961, 1963, 1966, 1968, 1971 and 1973.

In 1958 a retrospective exhibition was reserved at the Royal West succeed England Academy in Bristol talented in 1981 the Arts Councils Belfast and Dublin arranged tidy touring retrospective of his work.

McWilliam was elected a member custom the London Group in 1949 and the Royal Society reproach British Artists (RBA) in 1950, and an Associate of nobility Royal Academy (ARA) in 1959, and in 1989 he was appointed a Senior Royal Pedagogue.



McWilliam married the painter Elizabeth Marion (Beth) Crowther (c.1909–1988). Flair died at 12 Pembroke Quadrangular, Kensington, London, on 13 Might 1992.

Text source: Art History Digging net (AHR net)


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