Ruby Levick (Mrs. Gervaise Bailey), fl. 1890-1915

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Biographical introduction

• A Decorative Sculptor: Miss Ruby Levick

Works in the round

• Rugby Football
• Wrestlers
• Figure of a Boy
• Asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging sea
• The Sea Urchin
• The Hammer-Thrower
• Fisherman Hauling in a Net
• Bust of a Man
• Sewaweed

Bas reliefs

• Brian
• Sleep
• Panel in reredos
• Detail in reredos panel
• Spring
• Memorial Relief

• Fairy and flower
• Girl with flowers
• Our Lady and St. Edmund
• [Mother and Child]

Discussion Questions

• Muscular Christianity in Levick's Rugby Football
• The Struggles of New Sculpture

Bibliography

"Arts and Crafts." Studio. 18 (1899): 271.

Beattie, Susan. The New Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.

Wood, T. Martin “A Decorative Sculptor: Miss Ruby Levick: (Mrs. Gervaise Bailey)”. The Studio 34 (1905): 100-107. Internet Archive. Web. 29 January 2012. [complete text in the Victorian Web.

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