Subseries 110 - Photographs of Laurence Campbell (Sculptor)

24 items; black and white print; printed

A collection of twenty-four images showing Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) working on his statue of Seán Heuston (now sited in the Phoenix Park in Dublin). The file includes additional images of other sculptural work by Campbell including his busts of Bishop William MacNeely, Fr. Senan Moynihan OFM Cap., and Fr. Gerald McCann OFM Cap.

Many of the images were published in ‘A Contemporary Irish Master / Laurence Campbell RHA’ which appeared in ‘The Capuchin Annual’ (1945), pp 337-52. https://designrr.page/?id=315586&token=875124367&type=FP&h=2922

Laurence Campbell was born in Dublin and was the younger brother of the painter, Christopher Campbell (1908-1972). Laurence served an apprenticeship as a stone carver with Sharpe and Emlys, monumental sculptors on Great Brunswick Street in the capital. From 1927 to 1936 he studied part time at the Metropolitan School of Art under the famed Irish sculptor, Oliver Sheppard. After winning a travel scholarship he continued his studies at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm and later at the Academy Ranson in Paris. Between 1938 and 1946, Campbell was Professor of Sculpture at the National College of Art in Dublin. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1940. He later established a successful practice as a sculptor of portraits, public architectural works, and religious statuary. Among his commissions were two limestone panels depicting industry and commerce for the façade of the Marino vocational school in Dublin (c.1940-3). He later emigrated to the United States and died in Chicago in 2001.

For biographical information on Laurence Campbell (1911-2001) see Paula Murphy’s article in the ‘Irish Times’ (23 May 2021) at https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/fit-to-bust-paula-murphy-on-the-man-behind-laurence-campbell-s-sculpture-1.4572834