Direct Study of Gothic Arch in Great Sculpture Courts - Victoria & Albert Museum
Drawing
1961 (made)
1961 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
Barry Martin (born 1943) is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and of St Martin's School of Art, both especially influential in the 1960s when he was studying there. He has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition.
His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student drawing from the plaster casts in the Cast Courts at the V&A, represented by this pen and ink wash drawing of a Gothic Arch from the Rosslyn Chapel, until the 1990s. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006.
His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student drawing from the plaster casts in the Cast Courts at the V&A, represented by this pen and ink wash drawing of a Gothic Arch from the Rosslyn Chapel, until the 1990s. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Title | Direct Study of Gothic Arch in Great Sculpture Courts - Victoria & Albert Museum (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash on paper |
| Brief description | 'Direct Study of Gothic Arch in Great Sculpture Courts - Victoria & Albert Museum', pen, ink and wash, by Barry Martin, London, 1961 |
| Physical description | Small portrait format pen, ink and wash of a cast of a gothic archway |
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| Marks and inscriptions | BM 1960 (signature and date; in pencil. Although the artist has dated the drawing '1960', his inscription on the back of the frame gives the date as 1961.) |
| Credit line | Given by the artist |
| Object history | The drawing was made whilst Martin was a student; it was made on a visit to the V&A cast courts |
| Production | The drawing is signed and dated 1960, but inscribed by the artist on the back of the frame '1961' |
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| Place depicted | |
| Summary | Barry Martin (born 1943) is a graduate of Goldsmith's College and of St Martin's School of Art, both especially influential in the 1960s when he was studying there. He has worked in various media - including kinetic sculpture, film, performance, and the making of environments - but the constant in his work has been drawing, either as a working tool, as a means of recording and observing, or as an end in itself. For Martin, drawing is a system of signs analogous to those of language, and also an intellectual process of enquiry, analysis and proposition. His gift of drawings spans his career from the time he was a student drawing from the plaster casts in the Cast Courts at the V&A, represented by this pen and ink wash drawing of a Gothic Arch from the Rosslyn Chapel, until the 1990s. For other drawings by Martin in the V&A collection see E.315-321-2006. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.318-2006 |
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| Record created | October 25, 2006 |
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