Mother and Child, Alfred Turner, ca. 1936
Alfred Turner

Mother and Child

ca. 1936 · Sculpture

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Although this is not a religious piece, it recalls the stylised images of the Virgin and Child found in Byzantine and medieval art. Turner modelled works to be cast in bronze as well as carving many different types of stone. Here, the smooth surfaces of the figures make a deliberate contrast with the rough block on which they sit.

Alfred Turner trained at the South London Technical Art School under W. S. Frith (1850-1924) and worked for a time as assistant to Harry Bates (1850-1899). In 1895 he entered the Royal Academy Schools. Spielmann described Turner as a 'highly successful student of the Lambeth and Royal Academy schools, who has also studied abroad ... [and is] among the most promising of the youngest generation of sculptors now before the public'. This work is based on a smaller group exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy in 1934 (Mus. no. 1591).

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Turner, who taught at the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London, was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy between 1905 and 1937. He was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1922, and became a Royal Academician in 1931. His diploma work, Dreams of Youth, is in the Royal Academy's permanent collection. His daughter Winifred was a successful sculptor in her own right. Her bronze figure of a Crouching Youth is also in the Museum's collections (Mus. no. A.12-1981). The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, held a joint exhibition of work by father and daughter in 1988.

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