Lynn Chadwick
5 of 17 portraits of Lynn Chadwick
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Lynn Chadwick
by Ida Kar
vintage bromide print, 1954
9 5/8 in. x 7 3/4 in. (243 mm x 196 mm)
Purchased, 1999
Photographs Collection
NPG x88661
Sitterback to top
- Lynn Russell Chadwick (1914-2003), Sculptor. Sitter in 17 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 1 portrait.
Artistback to top
- Ida Kar (1908-1974), Photographer. Artist or producer associated with 1567 portraits, Sitter in 137 portraits.
This portraitback to top
In 1954 Ida Kar photographed Chadwick as part of a series for her upcoming Gallery One show titled Forty Artists from London and Paris. Chadwick was photographed in a series of poses, some as intimate cropped portraits and others with a sculpture which stood in the garden of a friend's house in London. He later wrote to Kar thanking her and saying how he felt 'very separated from all the excitement of London' now he was back home in Gloucestershire. A variant pose from this sitting was published in The Tatler and Bystander, 4 July 1956 to announce Chadwick winning the international prize for sculpture at that year's Venice Biennial Exhibition.
Linked displays and exhibitionsback to top
- Photograph of the Month: November 2014 (3 November 2014 - 30 November 2014)
Events of 1954back to top
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International
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