page_title: Lynn Chadwick
section_title: Beginnings as a sculptor
hierarchical_section_title: Lynn Chadwick / Beginnings as a sculptor
caption_attribution_description: De waterfonteinen, een bouwwerk uit de jaren 1970. Van op de top een prachtig zicht op het centrum van Jerevan en in de verte op de steeds besneeuwde top van de Araratberg. Ook aan te bevelen om 's morgens even de trappen op en af te joggen! zie ook: www.armeniapedia.org/index.php?title=Cascade
context_page_description: Lynn Russell Chadwick, CBE RA was an English sculptor and artist. Much of his work is semi-abstract sculpture in bronze or steel. His work is in the collections of MoMA in New York, the Tate in London and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
context_section_description: After the war, Chadwick returned to Rodney Thomas where he became involved in the design of trade-fair stands.
  In March 1946, he won a £50 prize in a textile design competition, which led to a contract to produce more designs for Zika and Lida Ascher who had promoted the 's' removed competition and who owned a textile design firm. Around the same time, Chadwick was commissioned to make exhibition stands for the Aluminium Development Corporation.
  Chadwick constructed his first mobile around 1947 – which originated from ideas first proposed by Rodney Thomas. Very few of these works survive; they were made of wire, balsa wood and cut copper and brass shapes, often fish-like and sometimes coloured. Some were incorporated as decorative features in exhibition stands, while others found homes amongst Thomas and his circle. Later he developed ground supports for the mobiles, transforming them into what he called "stabiles". At the same time, he was designing fabrics and furniture.
  Recalling this period, Chadwick said:
  I actually wanted to produce a sort of touchable object, a tangible object. I really wanted to do that rather than be involved with intangible things like architecture which was slightly intangible to me because it had meant, in my case, drawing after drawing after drawing for projects which were never realised. In my case, I wanted to do it to have some reality in front of me.
caption: Sculpture on the steps of the Yerevan Cascade.
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