Pauline Boumphrey

Pauline Boumphrey
Pauline Boumphrey
Born	Pauline Firth; 11 October 1886; Boston, USA
Died	25 January 1959 (aged 72); New York, USA
Nationality	American
Known for	Sculpture

Pauline Boumphrey (née Pauline Firth, later Pauline Firth Haworth; 11 October 1886 – 25 January 1959) was an American sculptor who spent the majority of her career working in Britain.^[1]

Biography[edit]

Boumphrey was born in Boston in Massachusetts but was educated in Britain, attending Roedean School on the English south coast.^[2] She settled in London and later lived at Sandiway in Cheshire.^[3]

Boumphrey specialised in statuettes and small group compositions, often in bronze, and often of equine subjects.^[3]^[1] In 1925 she was awarded an honourable mention for a piece she showed at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris.^[4] Boumphrey also exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Glasgow and Edinburgh.^[1]^[3] She was a regular exhibitor with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and was elected an associate member of that Academy in 1925.^[2] Among the works she exhibited in Manchester was a 1942 design for a war memorial to the civilian victims of the Blitz.^[5] Boumphrey died in New York in 1959.^[1]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Mrs JW Pauline Boumphrey". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.
^ ^a ^b ^c James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club.
^ Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini-Bulow. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.
^ University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Design for a Memorial to the Women and Children Killed by Enemy Action 1939-1942". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

[MapPB-1] University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Mrs JW Pauline Boumphrey". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

[GMWaters-2] Grant M. Waters (1975). Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950. Eastbourne Fine Art.

[Mackay-3] James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club.

[Benezit2-4] Benezit Dictionary of Artists Volume 2 Bedeschini-Bulow. Editions Grund, Paris. 2006. ISBN 2-7000-3070-2.

[MapBlitz-5] University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Design for a Memorial to the Women and Children Killed by Enemy Action 1939-1942". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 12 January 2020.

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