Three Unknown Forms

Ernest Alfred Dunn (1937 - )

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: UK
    City: London
    Place: Government Art Collection
    Ernest Alfred Dunn worked primarily insculpture and colour lithographs, with the lithographs often in conversation with his sculptural works. In this lithograph he plays with geometric forms in an improbable tower. The structures he presents, and their colours, have a sense of playfulness and childlike simplicity. While all his structures stand upright in this print, it is obvious from their structure and shapes that they will topple over – this adds to the playful nature of the work and creates a space for his viewer to anticipate what will happen next. Dunn was a skilled sculptor, and made a number of kinetic sculptures, using media including Perspex, wood and metal. Kinetic sculpture involves ideas of movement, with the term originating from artists of the Futurist movement in the 1920s.
  • About the artist
    Ernest Alfred Dunn, born in Yorkshire, is a printmaker and sculptor. He studied initially at the Barnsley and Leeds Schools of Art before going on to the Royal College of Art in London where he later taught, and went on to become a senior tutor. He exhibited his abstract forms and lithographs regularly at Redfern Gallery in London and also extensively in Germany and Italy. His works are in museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Victoria and Albert Museum, Manchester City Art Gallery and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
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  • Details
    Title
    Three Unknown Forms
    Edition
    2/10
    Date
    Medium
    Lithograph
    Acquisition
    Purchased from Editions Alecto, February 1972
    Inscription
    below image: Three Unknown Forms 2/10 / Ernest A. Dunn
    GAC number
    L949