| 词条 | Charles Wheeler (sculptor) |
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For others with the same name see Charles Wheeler (disambiguation){{Use dmy dates|date=April 2012}}{{Infobox artist | name = Sir Charles Wheeler | image = London.bankofengland.arp.jpg | caption = Bank of England facade, sculpture by Sir Charles Wheeler | birth_name = Charles Thomas Wheeler | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1892|03|14}} | birth_place = Codsall, Staffordshire, England | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1974|08|22|1892|03|14}} | death_place = Five Ashes, Mayfield, Sussex, England | field = sculpture, architectural sculpture | training = {{unbulleted list |Wolverhampton College of Art|Royal College of Art|}} | awards = {{plainlist|
}}Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler {{postnominals|country=GBR|KCVO|CBE|PRA}} (14 March 1892 – 22 August 1974) was a British sculptor who worked in bronze and stone who became the first sculptor to hold the Presidency of the Royal Academy, from 1956 through 1966.[1] BiographyWheeler was the son of a journalist and was born in Codsall, Staffordshire, and raised in nearby Wolverhampton. He studied at the Wolverhampton College of Art, now Wolverhampton University, under Robert Emerson, between 1908 and 1912.[2] In 1912 he won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art where he studied under Édouard Lantéri until 1917.[3] Throughout the remainder of World War I Wheeler was classified as unfit for active service and instead modelled artificial limbs for war amputees. Wheeler came to specialize in portraits and architectural sculpture. From 1914 until 1970 he exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and became a Fellow of the Academy in 1940 and became its President in 1956. His tenure as RA president was controversial for the decision by the Academy to sell the most valuable painting in its collection, the Leonardo da Vinci cartoon of The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist. The possibility that the painting might leave Britain caused a public outcry and eventually it was sold to the National Gallery.[4] From 1942 to 1949, he served as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery and in 1946 was a member of the Royal Fine Art Commission.[5] In 1968 he wrote his autobiography, High Relief. During the Second World War Wheeler was the only sculptor to be given full-time contracts by the War Artists' Advisory Committee. In both 1941 and 1942, Wheeler was commissioned to produce portrait busts of Admiralty figures. Due to material shortages and other issues, Wheeler produced only three bronze figures during the commission period.[6][7] WorksNotable works include by Wheeler include,[8]
References1. ^{{cite web |author=|title=Charles Wheeler, P.R.A. |url=http://www.racollection.org.uk/ixbin/indexplus?_IXACTION_=file&_IXFILE_=templates/full/person.html&_IXTRAIL_=Names%C2%A0A-Z&person=5975 |year=|accessdate=16 October 2016|work=Royal Academy}} 2. ^{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/plaques/LichfieldStreet.htm|title= Wolverhampton's Blue Plaques|year= |accessdate=16 October 2016|work=}} 3. ^{{cite book|author=Frances Spalding|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1990|title=20th Century Painters and Sculptors |ISBN=1 85149 106 6}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Ian Chilvers|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|title=The Oxford Dictionary of Art|ISBN=0 19 860476 9}} 5. ^{{cite web |author=|url=http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sir-charles-wheeler-2138 |title= Artist biography, Sir Charles Wheeler|year=2004 |accessdate=16 October 2016|work= Tate}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Brain Foss|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2007|title=War Paint: Art, War, State and Identity in Britain, 1939–1945 |ISBN=978-0-300-10890-3}} 7. ^{{cite web |author=Imperial War Museum|url=http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1050001038|title=War artists archive, Charles Wheeler |year=|accessdate=16 October 2016|work=Imperial War Museum}} 8. ^{{cite web |author=University of Glasgow History of Art|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1216982448|title=Sir Charles Thomas Wheeler PRA, KCVO, CBE|year=2011 |accessdate=16 October 2016|work=Mapping the Practice & Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951}} External links{{Commons category|Charles Wheeler (sculptor)}}
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