About this artwork
New Bird I is part-man, part-bird. By 1965, the date of New Bird I, many other sculptors of her generation were abandoning bronze for steel and plastics and were even painting their works. Frink remained utterly faithful to representative sculpture. It was cast in bronze in an edition of seven, but this is an additional cast, made for the artist and numbered 0/0. As her fame grew and she had more exhibitions, she had casts made of her earlier works, to allow her to lend them readily to exhibitions.
Published November 2021
-
artist:Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993) English
-
title:New Bird I
-
date created:1965
-
materials:Bronze
-
measurements:54.60 cm (height)
-
object type:
-
credit line:Provided to the National Galleries of Scotland in accordance with the wishes of the artist’s late son, Lyn Jammet, 2020
-
accession number:GMA 5683
-
gallery:
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink
Elisabeth Frink’s artistic career was launched at the age of twenty-two with her first solo exhibition. Linked with the group of post-war British sculptors that included Reg Butler and Eduardo Paolozzi, she is perhaps best known for her expressionistic animal figures and popular public sculpture...