{{Short description|Canadian sculptor and painter (1929–2005)}} {{for|the British admiral|Gerald Gladstone (Royal Navy officer)}} {{Infobox artist | name = Gerald Gladstone | image = | caption = | image_size = 200px | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1929|01|07}} | birth_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|2005|03|07|1929|01|07}} | death_place = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | nationality = | field = sculptor and painter. | training = Royal College of Art | movement = figurative sculpture | works = | awards = elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1974 }}

'''Gerald Gladstone''' {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|RCA|size=100%}} (7 January 1929&nbsp;&ndash;&nbsp;7 March 2005) was a Canadian sculptor and painter.<ref name=NGC >{{cite web|title=Gerald Gladstone|url=http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2065|publisher=National Gallery of Canada|accessdate=26 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928050203/http://www.gallery.ca/en/see/collections/artist.php?iartistid=2065|archive-date=28 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Life== Born in 1929 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Ralph and Dora Gladstone, Gerald was the sixth of nine children. In his youth, Gladstone was as committed to music as he was to painting, teaching himself to play the clarinet and forming a jazz band.

He married in his early twenties supporting his young family with a variety of jobs ending up with a position in commercial advertising. He set up a sculpture studio and began working on a series of welded pieces influenced by Constructivism. In the 1950s, Gladstone was exhibited by Toronto gallery owner Av Isaacs along with artists such as Michael Snow, Gordon Rayner, Graham Coughtry, and Tony Urquhart.<ref name=Martin >{{cite news|last=Martin|first=Sandra|title=Gerald GLADSTONE, Artist: 1929-2005|url=http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/2005/o2005xus.htm|accessdate=26 September 2013|newspaper=Toronto Globe and Mail|date=9 March 2005|page=S9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927205402/http://www.ogs.on.ca/ogspi/2005/o2005xus.htm|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Windsor >{{cite web|title=Morning Flight - Gerald Gladstone |url=http://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Windsor-Sculpture-Park/Pages/Sculptures/Morning-Flight---Gerald-Gladstone.aspx |publisher=City of Windsor |accessdate=26 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927234917/http://www.citywindsor.ca/residents/Culture/Windsor-Sculpture-Park/Pages/Sculptures/Morning-Flight---Gerald-Gladstone.aspx |archivedate=27 September 2013 }}</ref>

In 1959, he received his first Canada Council of the Arts grant and relocated to London, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art where he met and befriended the British sculptor Henry Moore. Under Moore's influence, Gladstone began a long period of experimentation with figurative work.<ref name=Windsor />

In 1967, Gladstone received three commissions for Montreal's Expo 67, but several years later he was struggling to find work. There was an exhibition of his mid- to late-career plastic cube sculptures and his ''Downtown Nudes Series'' - a collection of oils on canvas - at the opening exhibition of Toronto's St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, and in 1973 he produced the ''Electric Figure Series'', another collection of oils on canvas. Among his late-career commissions were the ''Three Graces'', a fountain and bronze sculpture for the Ontario government buildings, ''Female Landscape'', a fountain and bronze sculpture at Montreal's Place Ville Marie, ''Optical Galaxy Sculpture'', a fountain and sculpture in Belconnen, Australia, and in 1978 a fountain and precast concrete sculpture for a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in a Civic Center plaza in Compton, California.<ref name="history 2">{{cite web |url=http://www.comptoncity.org/index.php/Historical-Landmarks/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial.htm |title=Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial |publisher=Comptoncity.org |access-date=2020-09-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724031600/http://www.comptoncity.org/index.php/Historical-Landmarks/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-memorial.htm |archive-date=2010-07-24 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> The sculptures in the entrance of La Ronde in Montréal Québec Canada are made by Gladstone. Other works include:

* McGillivray Fountain 1968, Exhibition Place, Toronto * Pylon 1960, 170 Memorial Park Avenue, Toronto * Solar Net 1963, Larkin Building (University of Toronto St. George Campus) Devonshire Place, Toronto * Galaxy Series Number2 1967, inside Macdonald Block, 900 Bay Street, Toronto * Female Landscape 1972, Place Ville Marie, Montreal

In 1990, Gladstone set up a studio in Beaverton, Ontario.<ref name=Martin /><ref name=AGO>{{cite web|title=Gerald Gladstone, Event Horizon November 8, 2003 to February 15, 2004|url=http://www.ago.net/gerald-gladstone|publisher=Art Gallery of Ontario|accessdate=26 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927160609/http://www.ago.net/gerald-gladstone|archive-date=27 September 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> The Art Gallery of Ontario held a retrospective of his work in 2003. He was made a member of Royal Canadian Academy of Arts<ref name=RCA1880 >{{cite web|title=Members since 1880 |url=http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |publisher=Royal Canadian Academy of Arts |accessdate=11 September 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110526215339/http://www.rca-arc.ca/en/about_members/since1880.asp |archivedate=26 May 2011 }}</ref> Gladstone died on March 7, 2005, in Toronto.<ref name=AGO />

==Works== <gallery> Gladstone Oil.jpg|Gladstone's ''Downtown Nudes'', oil on canvas, 1970s Universal Man.JPG|Gladstone's ''Universal Man'', sculpture, 1976, Yorkdale Mall, Toronto Odette Sculpture Park Gerald Gladstone.jpg|Gladstone's ''Morning flight'' in Odette Sculpture Park, Windsor Canada Gladstone galaxy.JPG|Gladstone's ''Galaxy'' at Cameron Offices, Town Square expresses humanity's concern with its position in intergalactic space, Canberra ACT, Australia Compton martin luther king monument.jpg|Gladstone's Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, 1978, in Civic Center Plaza of Compton, California </gallery>

==Selected exhibitions== *1967: ''Expo 67'', Montreal<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=1967|title=Two Canadian Sculptures at Expo 67|url=https://archive.org/details/sculptureinterna0000n4unse|journal=Sculpture International|location=Oxford|publisher=Permagon Press|volume=4|issue=1|pages=50–51|via=archive.org}}</ref> *2003: ''Art Gallery of Ontario'', Toronto: ''Gladstone: Event Horizon''

==Selected collections== *''National Gallery of Canada'', Ottawa *''Art Gallery of Ontario'', Toronto

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== {{Commons}} *[http://www.billgladstone.ca/?p=3590 Gladstone, Bill. 'A sketch of artist Gerald Gladstone' November 29, 2011] *[http://www.dittwald.com/torontosculpture/search.php?Artist=Gerald%20Gladstone Toronto Sculpture - Virtual Gallery] (Gerald Gladstone) *[http://www.artnet.com/artist/571041/gerald-gladstone.html Artnet.com] (Gerald Gladstone)

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