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Lynn Chadwick at Houghton Hall: Geometry of Fear in the English Landscape

A major UK exhibition reconsiders Lynn Chadwick’s sharp, constructed vision, placing one of postwar Britain’s most original sculptors back at the centre of the story. Lynn Chadwick (1914–2003) was one of the most distinctive British sculptors of the postwarperiod, known for his jagged, angular figures that hover somewhere between human, animal,and machine. He began as an architectural draughtsman, working as a designer in the 1930s and 40s, and that background never left him. His sculptures aren’t modelled so much as […]