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Baldwin is pleased to present ‘Lynn Chadwick: It All Started in Venice….’, a curated presentation of works by British artist Lynn Chadwick (1914 - 2003).

Chadwick was part of a generation of British sculptors who surprised audiences at the 1952 Venice Biennale by breaking with the tradition of carving sculpture from wood or stone. Instead, he welded iron and bronze rods into expressionistic, figurative works inspired by the human form and animals that hovered close to abstraction. He rejected what he saw as the amorphousness of stone, preferring to work with iron because it allowed him to …