Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro painting "Paper sculpture #114" in the studio at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York, 1981
Gift of Kenneth Tyler 2002
Photographer: Lindsay Green
The knighted English sculptor Sir Anthony Caro has completed two projects at Tyler Graphics. He was born in England in 1924, and after completing his studies at the Royal Academy Schools in London, became Henry Moore’s assistant. Moore’s influence saw Caro begin to work in an Abstract, Modernist manner and he continued to develop this style throughout his career. Caro’s sculptures are usually executed on a large scale, but his oeuvre also includes a variety of small works, including those made at Tyler Graphics.
In 1982 Caro created a series of 124 paper relief sculptures, and he returned in 1993 to complete a further series of 35 paper sculptures. In collaboration with Kenneth Tyler and other workshop staff, Caro created these sculptures from paper pulp, plaster, and other materials. The resulting works are delicate explorations of the sculptural qualities of Tyler’s unique handmade papers. They provide a stark contrast to Caro’s usual work in steel and other industrial materials.
Emilie Owens
Works in the Kenneth E. Tyler Collection
Chronology
1924 Born in New Malden, Surrey, England
1942–44 Attends Cambridge University residing at Christ’s College; obtains Masters in Engineering; during holidays attends classes at Farnham School of Art, Surrey
1944–46 Serves in Fleet Air Arm of Royal Navy
1946–47 Studies sculpture under Geoffrey Deeley at Regent Street Polytechnic, London, England
1947–52 Attends Royal Academy Schools, London
1951–53 Works as part-time assistant to sculptor Henry Moore, Much Hadham, Hertfordshire
1956 First solo exhibition at Galleria del Naviglio, Milan, Italy
1958 Included in exhibition, Three young English artists at Venice biennale, Italy
1959 Wins sculpture prize at Paris biennale of Young Artists, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France; visits United States of America for the first time on Ford Foundation English Speaking Union Grant
1960 Makes first abstract sculptures in steel
1963–65 Teaches at Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
1966 Included in exhibition, Five young British artists at Venice biennale, receives David E Bright Sculpture Prize
1967 Included in travelling exhibition, Guggenheim international exhibition, 1967: sculpture from twenty nations, originating at Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York City, New York; retrospective exhibition at Rjksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
1968 Included in Ways of contemporary research at the Venice biennale, included in exhibition, Kenneth Noland, Morris Louis, and Anthony Caro, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; 30th annual exhibition, Contemporary Art Society of New South Wales, Blaxland Gallery, Sydney, Australia
1969 Appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire; exhibits in the British Section of Biennial of São-Paulo, Brazil
1974 Works at York Steel Co., Toronto, Canada
1975 Retrospective exhibition, Anthony Caro, originates at Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1977 Retrospective exhibition, at Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, travelling to Australia, New Zealand and Germany
1982 Completes 124 paper sculptures at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Bedford Village, New York
1984 Travelling exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London; included in travelling exhibition, Artistic collaboration in the twentieth century, originating at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1987 Awarded Knight of the British Empire, Queen’s Birthday Honours
1988 Included in exhibition, Twentieth century paintings and sculpture: selections for the tenth anniversary of the east building, at National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1990 Retrospective exhibition, at Musée des Beaux Arts, Calais, France
1992 Included in travelling exhibition, Innovation in collaborative printmaking: Kenneth Tyler: 1963–1992, originating at Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan; awarded Praemium Imperiale Award for sculpture, Tokyo; retrospective exhibition, at Trajan Market, Rome, Italy
1993 Completes 35 paper sculptures at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York, using papers handmade at TGL and other paper products
1994 Retrospective exhibition, at Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Exhibition, Caro and Olitzki: masters of abstraction draw the figure, at New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, New York City; included in exhibition, A century of English sculpture, at Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
1997 Receives Lifetime Achievement Award from International Sculpture Centre
1998 Solo exhibition, Caro – sculpture from painting at National Gallery, London
1999 Exhibits The last judgement at Venice biennale
2000 Completes commission for Millennium Bridge, London, with architect Sir Norman Foster and engineer Chris Wise; completes sculpture, Book of Eden, at Tyler Graphics Ltd., Mount Kisco, New York; included in exhibition, Encounters, at National Gallery, London; receives Order of Merit from HM Queen Elizabeth
2001 Travelling solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: a sculptor's development, originating at Lewes Town Hall, Sussex, England; solo exhibition, Caro at Longside: sculpture and sculptitecture, at Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
2002 Solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: drawing in space - sculptures from 1964 to 1988 and The Last Judgement, at Gaudi's 'La Pedrera' building, Barcelona, Spain; included in travelling exhibition, Blast to freeze: British art of the 20th century, originating at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
2004 80th birthday marked with display of Sculpture two outside Tate Britain and exhibitions all over the world, including Artemis Greenberg van Doren and Garth Clark Gallery in New York, C Grimaldis Gallery in Baltimore, Galerie Josine Bokhoven in Amsterdam and Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris; included in exhibition, The Kenneth E Tyler gift, at Tate Modern, London
2005 Retrospective exhibition, at Tate Britain, London; Caro in focus, at Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
2006 Included in exhibition, 60: sixty years of sculpture, at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, England
2008 Opening of Chapel of Light, at Church of St. Jean Baptiste, Bourbourg, France, accompanied by three retrospective exhibitions held simultaneously at Musée des Beaux Arts et de la Dentelle, Calais, Musée du Dessin et de l'Estampe Originale, Gravelines, Lieu d'Art et Action Contemporain, Dunkirk, as well as exhibitions in Angers, Paris and Lille; solo exhibition, Anthony Caro: portraits, at National Portrait Gallery, London; included in exhibition, British sculptors' drawings: Moore to Gormley, at British Museum, London
2009 Joint retrospective with Eduardo Paolozzi at The Lightbox, Woking, Surrey, England
2010 Travelling solo exhibition, Caro: the figure, originating at Royal Society of British Sculptors, London
2011 Solo exhibition, Anthony Caro on the roof, at Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; included in exhibition, Modern British sculpture, at Royal Academy of Art, London
2012 Designs first ever UK Gold Kilo coin for the Royal Mint to mark London Olympics
2013 Anthony Caro died in London, England
Barbara Delano © Tyler Graphics Ltd., revised Kate Buckingham, 2006; revised Julia Greenstreet, 2013
This chronology provides an overview of selected biographical information, major solo and group exhibitions held within the artist's own lifetime.
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- Workshop: The Kenneth Tyler Collection, Jane Kinsman (ed.), 2015
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