Artists Must Live - ACE001.4

The Time-Life offices in Bond Street, London, where painters, sculptors and designers working under Sir Hugh Casson, collaborated directly with the architect. Details of design and decoration, including sculptures by Henry Moore. A family group by Moore made for a school in Hertfordshire. Teacher looking at mural with children. Another mural in a school hall. Children in art class. Corsham Court. Clifford Ellis, principal of the Bath academy, who worked on one of the Hertfordshire murals. Children weaving. Ellis believes that training should provide a central core education which will enable him to face the outside world; VO art class with teacher assisting student sculptors. Students practising a variety of techniques, from metal-working to print-making. William Scott and Kenneth Armitage teaching. Artist’s studio. Modern technology. New buildings. Sculptures entered into a competition for a monument to the Unknown Political Prisoner. The problem of patronage is the problem of understanding the shape of oMadonna and Childur time. Epstein’s (1950-1952) at the Convent of the Holy Child Jesus, Cavendish Square, commissioned by the Church. Graham Sutherland’s The Crucifixion (1946) at St Matthew’s, Northampton. Madonna and Child (1944) by Henry Moore in same church. Ivan Hitchins working on mural, "a sign that a patron has had the vision to command a major work and that the artist has had the courage to respond". Credits.