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James Havard Thomas
Thrysis (1912); cast 1914
bronze
169.2 × 72.1 × 41.9 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1915
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Thrysis
(1912); cast 1914
Medium
bronze
Measurements
169.2 × 72.1 × 41.9 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1915
Gallery location
19th Century European Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
The experienced sculptor James Harvard Thomas gained notoriety in 1905 when his sculpture Lycidas was rejected by the hanging committee of the Royal Academy on grounds of it being too naturalistic. Naturalism was a growing trend in British Art and was very much the focus of a breakaway group of artists who formed the New English Art Club in the mid-1880s as an alternate exhibiting body in direct and critical opposition to the RA. Thomas briefly served the NEAC in an official capacity. He continued to produce idealised yet life-like sculptures, such as Thyrsis, a figure based on an ancient Greek shepherd.
Artwork Details
Edition
edition of 3
Inscription
cast (vertically) in top of base l.r.: HARVARD THOMAS / MCMXIV
Accession Number
770-2
Department
International Sculpture
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