The largest bronze sculpture placed in the City of London - Whitehall,
Women of World War II
The
Memorial to the Women of World War II is the result of an open competition. It
was won by John W. Mills. The brief asked for a monument to all the women of World
War II, not individuals. John W. Mills’ winning design from an entry of 12 sprang
from his own memories of the war and his mother’ s work in munitions.
It depicts
the contribution of all women to the war effort through their clothing symbolically
left hanging on pegs after they had returned home at the end of hostilities with
their job well done.
The judges for the memorial competition were: Professor
Phillip King, president of the Royal Academy of Arts (1999-2004), Dr Judith Collins,
former head of modern sculpture at the Tate, and James Butler, the eminent sculptor.
Another of his works in the same genre as the Memorial to the Women of
World War II is Blitz,
the National Fire-fighters Memorial outside St Paul’s Cathedral. Among
many other sculptures from his studios have also come The Memorial to William
Blake at William Blake House in London, a magnificent 12ft-high bronze, St George,
at Windsor Court Hotel in New Orleans, and a statue of Jackie Milburn, the Newcastle
footballer at Ashington, Northumberland. After many machinations that germ of
a dream came to fruition as The National Firefighters Memorial '
BLITZ '.
On
9 July 2005 Her Majesty The Queen unveiled The Memorial to the Women of World
War Two. The bronze sculpture stands next to The Cenotaph in Whitehall one of
the most important ceremonial routes in the nation. The Memorial is a permanent
tribute to the contribution made by more than seven million women during 1939
– 45 and it took seven years of campaigning for a hope to become reality. Significantly,
almost every family in Britain knows a woman this memorial represents.
Sculpture
of Women of World War II being completed at the Bronze foundry in Essex
Other
references & links:
'Blitz'
Firefighters Memorial
H.M.Queen
Elizabeth II unveiling Women of World War II Monument
John
W Mills images of Quentin Crisp
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