Open Championship Horticulture Prize, c. 1921
Bronze mounted in custom wood frame
11 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches
Framed: 25 1/4 x 20 1/2 inches
Signed: Hamo Thornycroft 1921 (l.r.),
Marked: Championship Horticultural Prize (u.c.) Presented by TOOGOOD and Sons LTD / Southampton / Seedsmen to H.M. THE KING (l.c.)
$ 1,700.00
artist
Thornycroft, a member of the Royal Academy, sculpted some of London’s best-known statues. He was one of the Academy's youngest members, and the leading figure of the New Sculpture movement, which provided a transition between 19th-century Neoclassicism and its later fin-de-siècle and modernist departures.