14 Facts About Brian Wall

Brian Wall is a British-born American sculptor now living in California.

Brian Wall has had numerous solo shows, and his sculptures reside in many private and museum collections.

Brian Wall was a faculty member at the Central School of Art in London, and a professor of art at the University of California, Berkeley.

Brian Wall was born in Paddington, London, England in 1931; he evacuated to Yorkshire during the London Blitz of World War II.

Brian Wall served in the Royal Air Force as an aerial reconnaissance photographer before beginning his career as an artist in 1952, initially as a figurative painter.

Brian Wall moved to St Ives, Cornwall in 1954, where there was a thriving artist colony.

Brian Wall worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth, a leading Modernist sculptor.

Brian Wall associated with prominent St Ives artists, including Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Patrick Heron, and Terry Frost, as well as young contemporaries Trevor Bell and Anthony Benjamin.

Brian Wall continued to refine his work in abstract steel sculptures and began to have his work shown in London galleries and museums, including a solo exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, and in the Tate Gallery's show "British Sculpture of the Sixties".

Brian Wall received an important commission to build a monumental sculpture in Thornaby, England, in 1968, the largest sculpture in England at the time.

At St Ives, Brian Wall's work progressed from paintings to reliefs to sculptures.

Brian Wall built his own aesthetic, constructing a sculpture as a jazz musician improvises a melody.

Brian Wall's art became simpler, purer, using circles, tubes, squares, etc.

Brian Wall produced mixed-media drawings in the 1990s using oil pastels and acetate on paper, showing abstract colorful patterns.