25 Facts About Anthony Caro

Anthony Caro began as a member of the modernist school, having worked with Henry Moore early in his career.

Anthony Caro was lauded as the greatest British sculptor of his generation.

Anthony Caro was born in New Malden, Surrey, England to a Jewish family and was the youngest of three children.

When Caro was three, his father, a stockbroker, moved the family to a farm in Churt, Surrey.

Anthony Caro was educated at Charterhouse School, where his housemaster introduced him to British sculptor Charles Wheeler.

Anthony Caro later earned a degree in engineering at Christ's College, Cambridge.

In 1959 Anthony Caro was awarded a Ford Foundation scholarship to undertake a research trip to the United States of America, which radically changed his approach to sculpture.

Anthony Caro is often credited with the significant innovation of removing the sculpture from its plinth, although Smith and Brancusi had both previously taken steps in the same direction.

Anthony Caro's sculptures are usually self-supporting and sit directly on the floor.

In 1963 Anthony Caro moved to Bennington, Vermont, where he made a prolific body of abstract, brightly coloured sculptures, including Slow Movement, which is part of the Arts Council Collection.

From 1970 onwards, Anthony Caro began to make sculptures in rusted, then varnished or waxed, steel.

In 1978, Anthony Caro was commissioned to design a sculpture for architect I M Pei's new East Wing building of the National Gallery, Washington, DC.

In 1980, Anthony Caro was trying to organise an exhibition of British abstract art in South African townships when he met Robert Loder.

Anthony Caro's work changed direction in the 1980s with the introduction of more literal elements, with a series of figures drawn from classical Greece.

In 2008, Anthony Caro opened his "Chapel of Light" installation in the Saint Jean-Baptiste Church of Bourbourg, and exhibited four figurative head sculptures at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

Anthony Caro taught at Bennington College from 1963 to 1965, along with painter Jules Olitski and sculptor David Smith.

Anthony Caro collaborated with celebrated architects, notably Frank Gehry, with whom he constructed a wooden village in New York in 1987.

Since the 1950s, Anthony Caro's work has been shown in museums and galleries worldwide.

In 1967 Anthony Caro began exhibiting regularly with Kasmin in London, and in 1969, he began showing with Andre Emmerich in New York.

Anthony Caro was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1969 New Year Honours.

Anthony Caro was knighted in the 1987 Birthday Honours and received the Order of Merit in May 2000.

Anthony Caro was awarded many prizes, including the Praemium Imperiale for Sculpture in Tokyo in 1992 and the Lifetime Achievement Award for Sculpture in 1997.

Anthony Caro was 89 when he died of a heart attack on 23 October 2013.

Anthony Caro was lauded as a "gentle man with a pioneering spirit" by BBC arts editor Will Gompertz and "one of the greatest sculptors in the second half of the twentieth century" by Royal Academy of Arts chief executive Charles Saumarez Smith.

Anthony Caro is buried in the churchyard of Worth Matravers, Dorset.