Ralph Brown RA

Ralph Brown was born in Leeds in 1928, a younger contemporary of Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, who also hail from Yorkshire. Like Moore, who befriended him and encouraged him by buying some early work; Brown's art is deeply rooted in the figurative tradition. He came to national prominence in the late 1950's with the large-scale bronze group of Meat Porters, commissioned for Harlow New Town, Essex. Throughout the 1960's and 1970's, when abstraction prevailed in British sculpture, he continued to devote his attention exclusively to the human figure, and he has long stood out among his contemporaries as a master of human anatomy.
 

Represented by Number Nine The Gallery