Anthony Caro

British, 1924–2013

Birth placeEngland

BiographyEnglish, b. March 8, 1924, London, England

Education: Sir Anthony Caro received an M.A in engineering in 1944 from Christ's College, Cambridge, and studied at the Farnham School of Art, Regent Street Polytechnic and the Royal Academy Schools, working as a part-time assistant to Henry Moore. Collections and Awards: Caro's work is in over 200 major public collections and he has received numerous honors and awards: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 and in 1992 Japan awarded him the Praemium Imperiale for lifetime achievement in sculpture. Art: Sir Anthony Caro is now known as Britain’s greatest living sculptor. Strongly influenced by American art, he shifted to abstraction after 1959 working with painted steel. Since this shift his career has been in constant motion, defying categorization, taking on painted and unpainted metal, ceramics, occasional series of figuration and now, narrative. Caro first worked in ceramics in 1975 at the New Works in Clay Project at Syracuse University and has since worked on many ceramic series with Jim Walsh, Paul Chaleff and Hans Spinner. He continues to use ceramics as a central element in his new epic installations such as Trojan War and the Barbarians.

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