Alfredda Brilliant Sculpting Paul Robeson, London
About this artwork
Alfredda Brilliant was a Polish-born sculptor who had lived and worked in Russia before escaping Stalin’s persecution of his opponents by moving to London in 1937. Along with her husband, the film-maker Herbert Marshall, she was active in a range of progressive artistic causes. These included writing the filmscript for ‘The Proud Valley’ (1940) in which Paul Robeson starred. Shot on location in the Welsh coalfields, the film portrays the political struggle of a black miner who sacrifices his life for his co-workers in a mining accident. ‘The Proud Valley’ offered an heroic vision of a black worker then quite unthinkable in Hollywood.
Updated before 2020
-
artist:Edith Tudor-Hart (1908 - 1973) Austrian
-
title:Alfredda Brilliant Sculpting Paul Robeson, London
-
date created:Photographed about 1939
-
printed by:Owen Logan (born 1963) Scottish
-
materials:Gelatin silver print
-
measurements:32.80 x 32.50 cm
-
object type:
-
credit line:Printed 2004 from original negatives held in the Edith Tudor Hart Archive
-
accession number:PGP 279.40B
-
gallery:
Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart
Edith Tudor-Hart, née Suschitzky, was one of the most significant documentary photographers working in Britain in the 1930s and 1940s. Born in Vienna, she grew up in radical Jewish circles. Edith married Alex Tudor-Hart, a British doctor, and the pair moved to England. There she worked as a...