Leon Underwood

The Zwemmer Gallery, London, where acquired by Wilfrid A. Evill 15th July 1957 for £50.0.0, by whom bequeathed to Honor Frost in 1963

London, Beaux Arts Gallery, Leon Underwood, 11th May - 24th June 1953, cat. no.31 (another cast);
London, Zwemmer Art Gallery, Sculpture and Drawings: Henry Moore, Marino Marini, Barbara Hepworth, F. E. McWilliam, Epstein, Leon Underwood, 4th - 29th June 1957;
London, Kaplan Gallery, An Exhibition of Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 1961, cat. no.6 (another cast);
New York, NM Acquavella Galleries, Sculpture by Leon Underwood, 16th October - 17th November 1962, cat. no.3 (another cast);
Brighton, Brighton Art Gallery; The Wilfrid Evill Memorial Exhibition, June - August 1965, cat. no.273;
London, Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition CXCVIII, 7th May - 14th August 1966, cat. no.1465 (another cast);
Colchester, The Minories, Leon Underwood: A Retrospective Exhibition, 9th August - 10th September 1969, cat. no.42 (another cast);
London, Archer Gallery, Leon Underwood, Michael Aram and Georges Brunon, 30th October - 29th November 1969, cat. no.14 (another cast).

Christopher Neve, Leon Underwood,  Thames and Hudson, London, 1974, illustrated p.198, pl.156 (as Hill Rhythm);
Ben Whitworth, The Sculpture of Leon Underwood, Lund Humphries, Aldershot, 2000, cat. no.151, illustrated p.115 and 83 (unique Water-Rhythm - Variation).

The work has been cast in two parts. Dirt has gathered in some of the crevices but the sculpture is in good overall condition. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 6424 if you have any questions regarding the present work
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While in his book on Underwood Ben Whitworth dates Water-Rhythm to circa 1952, he acknowledges that Underwood went on casting versions of the piece into the 1960s, which accounts for the date of the present work.

We are grateful to Ben Whitworth for his kind assistance with the cataloguing of the present work.