Alfred Gerrard
| Alfred Horace Gerrard | |
|---|---|
| Born |
7 May 1899 Hartford, Cheshire |
| Died | 13 June 1998 (aged 99) Groombridge, Kent |
| Nationality | British |
| Education |
Manchester School of Art Slade School of Fine Art |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Notable work |
Memorial Stone for a Hunter North Wind Stages in the Development of Man The Dance |
| Movement | Modernism |
| Awards | RBS Silver Medal, 1960 |
Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS (7 May 1899 – 13 June 1998) was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he taught a number of well-known sculptors.
Gerrard was born on 7 May 1899 in Hartford, Cheshire where his family had been farming for four centuries. He was the youngest of five children and was directly descended from the 16th century herbalist John Gerard. Gerrard was educated at Northwich Technical School which he left in 1916.
During the First World War, he served in the army with the Cameron Highlanders, the Black Watch and the Gordon Highlanders and in the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) from 1917. In the RFC, Gerrard flew Farman MF.11s and F.E.2Bs as a night bomber pilot, crashing and injuring his back on one occasion when his undercarriage fell off.
After being demobilized Gerrard studied at the Manchester School of Art in 1919 and at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1920 where Henry Tonks was his teacher and contemporaries included Samuel Rabinovitch. In 1925, Tonks appointed Gerrard head of the school's sculpture department, a position he held until 1948 after which he was Professor of Sculpture until 1968 and then Emeritus Professor. In the 1920s, Gerrard elected to wear a standard set of clothes – sports jacket, corduroy trousers, a collarless shirt and a yellow . He bought multiple copies of these items and wore them regularly for decades.
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