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Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters
Meat Porters

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In 1956, Harlow Art Trust asked Brown to submit ideas for the newly completed Market Square. The committee met to view these at Phillip Hendy’s office at the National Gallery and on the basis of Brown's drawings and maquette, commissioned ‘Figures with a Carcass’ (renamed ‘Meat Porters’) in 1959. The piece was cast in concrete and fibreglass and shown at the 'Sculpture in the Open Air' exhibition at Battersea Park in 1960. Then cast again in bronze with help from the Elmgrant Trust, the piece was finally sited in the Market Square in 1960. In 2000, a further version was made from the concrete and resin mould for the Cass Foundation, which Brown had kept in his studio. Nearly life-size and mounted on a plinth in front of market stalls, the work faces the pedestrian Broad Walk.

Title

Meat Porters

Date

1959–1960

Medium

bronze

Measurements

H 210 x W (?) x D (?) cm

Accession number

CM20_TJ_S056

Acquisition method

commissioned by Harlow Art Trust, 1959

Work type

Statue

Owner

Harlow Art Trust

Custodian

Harlow Art Trust

Work status

extant

Listing status

Grade II* (England and Wales)

Unveiling date

1960

Listing date

15/04/98

Access

at all times

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Located at

Market Square, Harlow

CM20 1LD