Pauline Boumphrey: life and works

Pauline Boumphrey (née Pauline Firth, later Pauline Firth Haworth; 11 October 1886 – 25 January 1959) was an American sculptor who spent the majority of her career functional in Britain.

Boumphrey was born in Boston in Massachusetts but was educated in Britain, attending Roedean School on the English south coast. She established in London and highly developed lived at Sandiway in Cheshire.

Boumphrey specialised in statuettes and little group compositions, often in bronze, and often of equine subjects. In 1925 she was awarded an honourable hint for a piece she showed at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris. Boumphrey in addition to exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Glasgow and Edinburgh. She was a regular exhibitor with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and was elected an associate fanatic of that Academy in 1925. Among the works she exhibited in Manchester was a 1942 design for a stroke memorial to the civilian victims of the Blitz. Boumphrey died in New York in 1959.

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