The New Sculpture
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 100 pieces of New Sculpture which date from between 1875 and 1920. This collection includes figure sculptures, statuettes, portraits and reliefs in bronze, marble and plaster. There are around 40 remarkable pieces in the collection which represent major artists of New Sculpture. These include Alfred Gilbert, considered the master of the movement, and others including George Frampton, Harry Bates, Hamo Thornycroft, Alfred Drury and Goscombe John. Also represented are Charles Allen, Onslow Ford, Robert Colton, Ruby Levick, Roscoe Mullins, Frederick Pomeroy, John M Swan and Albert Toft, as well as some lesser-known artists. This collection also encompasses around 45 works by Scottish artists who gained inspiration from The New Sculpture. These include Pittendrigh Macgillivray, Kellock Brown, McFarlane Shannan and DW Stevenson. The New Sculpture is the name given to a revolutionary movement in Britain, mainly England, in the last quarter of the 19th century, whose legacy endured into the early years of the 20th century. Rejecting the outdated neoclassical styles and conventional allegories of the established sculptors, they reinvigorated the genre with new ideas such as symbolism. The ideal figure and the statuette, together with architectural decoration and the public monument (also well represented in the City of Glasgow and on the actual building of Kelvingrove) were their principal areas of activity.
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