About this artwork
Helen Cruickshank was born at Hillside near Montrose. The poet Hugh MacDiarmid, a close friend, described her as a catalyst to the Scottish literary renaissance of the twentieth century. As Secretary of the Scottish PEN (an international association of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists) she encouraged many young writers and was a particular support to Lewis Grassic Gibbon. This sculpted head suggests both her strength and openness of spirit. Her own first collection of poems 'Up the Noran Water' was published in 1934.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Vincent Butler (1933 - 2017) Scottish
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title:Helen Cruickshank, 1886 - 1975
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date created:1970
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materials:Bronze
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measurements:35.50 cm (height)
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credit line:Purchased 2002
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accession number:PG 3288
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Vincent Butler
Vincent Butler
Born in Manchester, Butler studied at Edinburgh College of Art and under Marino Marini and Giacomo Manzù at the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1963 he returned to Scotland, taking up a post at Edinburgh College of Art which he held until 1989. He was one of the country's leading figurative sculptors,...