\"English Artist\" Lynn Chadwick Hand Signed FDC Dated 1969 For Sale

U for sale "English Artist" Lynn Chadwick Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1969. 

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Lynn Russell Chadwick, CBE RA (24 November 1914 – 25 April

2003) 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[2] and the Centre Georges born in the suburb of Barnes, in western London, and attended Merchant

Taylors' School in Northwood. While there he expressed an interest in being an

artist, though his art master suggested architecture was a more realistic

option. Accordingly, Chadwick became a trainee draughtsman, working first at

the offices of architects Donald Hamilton and then Eugen Carl Kauffman, and

finally for Rodney Thomas.[4] Chadwick took great inspiration

from Thomas, whose interest in contemporary European architecture and design

had a significant effect on his development. His training in architectural

drawing was the only formal education he received as an artist. He recalled:

"What it taught me was how to compose things, a formal exercise in

composition, really, it has nothing to do with the building 1941, having previously been a conscientious objector,[7] Chadwick volunteered to serve in

the Fleet Air Arm, and in 1941–1944 he served as a pilot

during the Second World War escorting Atlantic convoys. 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 his first mobile around 1947 – which originated from ideas first

proposed by Rodney Thomas.[5] 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 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.