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Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruby_Levick > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruby_Levick.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Levick > Source revision: 1356911504 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Welsh sculptor (1871–1940)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = | name = Ruby Levick | honorific_suffix = | image = | caption = | birth_name = Ruby Winifred Levick | birth_date = 11 September 1871''1939 England and Wales Register'' | birth_place = [Llandaff](/source/Llandaff), [Glamorgan](/source/Glamorgan), [Wales](/source/Wales) | death_date = {{death date and age|1940|3|31|1871|9|11|df=y}} | death_place = London, England | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | monuments = | nationality = | other_names = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = Sculptor | years_active = | employer = | organization = | known_for = | notable_works = | style = | television = | spouse = {{marriage|Gervase Bailey|1905|1940}}''London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754–1921'' | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = | awards = }} [[File:John Dalton bust.jpg|thumb|upright|Levick's [bust of John Dalton](/source/bust_of_John_Dalton), in the collection of the [Royal Society of Chemistry](/source/Royal_Society_of_Chemistry) at [Burlington House](/source/Burlington_House), London]] '''Ruby Winifred Levick''' (11 September 1871 – 31 March 1940) was a Welsh sculptor and medallist who had many of her works exhibited at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy).{{cite web|title=Miss Ruby Levick|url=http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1203032618|website=Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland, 1851–1951|publisher=University of Glasgow, History of Art and HATII, 2011}}{{cite web|last1=T. Martin Wood|title=A Decorative Sculptor: Miss Ruby Levick: (Mrs. Gervaise Bailey)|url=https://www.victorianweb.org/sculpture/levick/wood.html|website=The Victorian Web}}{{cite web|title=Ruby Levick|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/64/101064402/|website=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press}} ==Biography== Levick was born in [Llandaff](/source/Llandaff), Glamorgan, the daughter of George Levick, a civil engineer from [Blaina](/source/Blaina), and Jeannie Sowerby. Her younger brother was the explorer [George Murray Levick](/source/George_Murray_Levick). She studied at the [National Art Training School](/source/National_Art_Training_School), NATS, in London between 1893 and 1897, where she was taught by the sculptor [Édouard Lantéri](/source/%C3%89douard_Lant%C3%A9ri) and where she won a gold medal for her statuette ''Boys Wrestling''.{{cite book|author=Susan Beattie|publisher=Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art / Yale University Press|year=1983|title=The New Sculpture |ISBN= 0300033591}} Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the [Royal College of Art](/source/Royal_College_of_Art) in 1896, were several other notable female sculptors including [Margaret Giles](/source/Margaret_Giles), [Esther Moore](/source/Esther_Moore), [Florence Steele](/source/Florence_Steele), [Lilian Simpson](/source/Lilian_Simpson) and [Lucy Gwendolen Williams](/source/Lucy_Gwendolen_Williams). Throughout her career Levick specialised in bronze statuettes and garden pieces, often of children at play or of people in motion. Her statuettes of male athletes and groups of working people, for example ''Fishermen Hauling in a Net'', were much admired.{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/a-look-at-britains-neglected-professional-women-sculptors|title= A look at Britain's neglected professional women sculptors|date=23 November 2020|author=Pauline Rose|website=[Art UK](/source/Art_UK)|access-date=24 November 2021}} Levick also created a number of works for churches. These included a set of panels for the Chapel of St Edmund in [Hunstanton](/source/Hunstanton) plus panels and [reredos](/source/reredos) for St Brelades in Jersey. Levick exhibited her work at the Society of Medallists in 1898 and 1901, with the [Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society](/source/Arts_and_Crafts_Exhibition_Society) in 1899, 1903 and 1916 and also at the [Walker Art Gallery](/source/Walker_Art_Gallery) in Liverpool, the [Ridley Art Club](/source/Ridley_Art_Club) and at the [Royal Academy](/source/Royal_Academy) in London. == References == {{Reflist}} ==External links== {{Commons category}} * {{Art UK bio}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Levick, Ruby}} Category:1871 births Category:1940 deaths Category:19th-century Welsh sculptors Category:19th-century Welsh women artists Category:20th-century Welsh sculptors Category:20th-century Welsh women artists Category:Alumni of the Royal College of Art Category:20th-century British medallists Category:People from Llandaff Category:Welsh women sculptors Category:20th-century British women sculptors --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ruby Levick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Levick) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_Levick?action=history)). 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