Archive – Page 509 – Studio International

Venice Biennale: the British five

“… this year’s selection of Caro, the Cohens [Bernard Cohen, Harold Cohen], Denny, and Richard Smith seems suddenly to have aroused people’s interest [in the Venice Biennale]. Featured already in Vogue Magazine, (‘Merchants of Venice?’), trailed by B.B.C…”

Venice Biennale: choosing the artists

“…in 1948, [at the Venice Biennale] …Henry Moore walked off with the major Sculpture Prize…the next ‘break-through’ year for British art was 1952 when, in addition to Sutherland and Wadsworth, Britain presented a group of young sculptors—Adams, Armitage, Butler, Chadwick,…