What inspires my collecting is always unknown to me, it is just “If I like it”. But I rather like the simple looking Phases of the Moon by sculpture Lynn Chadwick. So different from the triangle shaped aliens he normally represents.
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Lynn Chadwick, Moon in Alabama, 1963
Chadwick’s Moon in Alabama series of 1963, variations on a faceted sphere, is a sculptor’s image, yet developed with a consciousness of the potential of printmaking for changing colour ways. †
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Lynn Chadwick – Moon in Alabama (colour variant), 1963
Moon in Alabama reminds one of those evil-looking mines, horned with detonators, that were sown at sea and whose shape Chadwick may subconsciously have recalled from his Fleet Air Arm days as he worked on the maquettes. ‡
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Lynn Chadwick – Moon in Alabama (colour variant), 1963
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Lynn Chadwick – Moon in Alabama (colour variant), 1963
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Lynn Chadwick – Maquette II Moon of Alabama
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Lynn Chadwick – Maquette III Moon of Alabama
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Lynn Chadwick – Full Series of Maquettes and Bottom right the final piece.
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J. S. Lewinski – Lynn Chadwick with Moon of Alabama,
† Alan Powers – Art and Print: The Curwen Story, 2008 – p118
‡ Dennis Farr – Lynn Chadwick, 2003 – p52