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Sculpture:
LEEUA 1994.001

1966

From 1950 to 1953, Butler was the first Gregory Fellow in Sculpture. In the 1930s, he had trained and worked as an architect, and taught at the Architectural Association. During World War II he worked...

Sculpture:
LEEUA 1930.001

1816

William Hey was Senior Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, 1773-1812, and twice mayor of Leeds (1787-89; 1810-12). Hey was a friend of Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Gott and was President of the Leeds...

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2003.001

1949, cast 1960

Born in Leeds, Armitage studied at Leeds College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His figurative pieces depict the human form by means of flat surfaces modelled in plaster and cast i...

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2006.001

c.1982

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2008.001

1933-34

Bronze bust of a male head. Tiger King was the hero of Robert Flaherty's documentary film 'Man of Aran'.

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2015.001

2015

Cast jesmonite with coal, copper and rust particles on aluminium frames supported by a steel structural framework. The British-Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara was born in London and grew up in Cornwal...

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2017.001

1948

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2016.001

Unknown 20th Century

Carved stone

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2023.001

1998 (recast of 1989 original)

Cast bronze

Sculpture:
LEEUA 1969.001

1969

Neville Boden was Gregory Fellow in Sculpture at the University of Leeds from 1965-1968.

Sculpture:
LEEUA 1998.002

William Hey was Senior Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, 1773-1812, and twice mayor of Leeds (1787-89; 1810-12). Hey was a friend of Joseph Priestley and Benjamin Gott and was President of the Leeds...

Sculpture:
LEEUA 2015.002

2015

Sir William Henry Bragg, who held the Cavendish Chair of Physics at Leeds from 1909 to 1915, was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with...