Marguerite Milward was a British sculptor and anthropologist.
11 Facts About Marguerite Milward
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Marguerite Milward was best known for her series of busts based on racial types of Indian tribes, and her book Artist in Unknown India, which recounts her expeditions to find Indian models on which the busts were based.
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Marguerite Milward was the daughter of a local architect, Charles Allerton Edge, the son of Charles Edge.
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Marguerite Milward studied woodcarving, painting and modelling at Birmingham School of Art and Bromsgrove School.
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Marguerite Milward married Philip Milward in 1901, a businessman, whose work took them both to South America.
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In 1907 Marguerite Milward moved to Paris to study at the Academie Colorossi and the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, becoming one of the French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle's first students.
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Marguerite Milward's first visit to India was in 1926, during which time she stayed with the Bengali poet and social reformer Rabindranath Tagore at Shantineketan.
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Marguerite Milward cites these experiences as inspiration for her ethnographic expeditions.
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Marguerite Milward arranged her itinerary with the advice of British archaeologist and art historian Kenneth de Burgh Codrington.
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In many cases, great care was taken to select the subject, Marguerite Milward prioritising people who "looked very interesting".
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Marguerite Milward's work has been compared to Malvina Hoffman's The Races of Mankind series of sculptures.