Frances Darlington | |
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![]() Darlington, in 1897 | |
Born | Fanny Taplin Darlington 3 February 1880 Headingley, West Riding of Yorkshire, England |
Died | 5 September 1940 | (aged 60)
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Movement | New Sculpture |
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Frances Darlington (born Fanny Taplin Darlington; 3 February 1880 – 5 September 1940) was an English artist of the New Sculpture movement. In the early 20th century she created decorative panels, busts, garden statuary, medallions, group sculptures, and statuettes, in various materials including copper, bronze and painted plaster. She also designed a railway poster, featuring Ilkley.
She is known in Harrogate for her painted plaster relief panels, including her large frieze around the walls of the vestibule of Harrogate Theatre, and her Stations of the Cross in St Wilfrid's Church, Harrogate. A retrospective exhibition of her works, called Heavenly Creatures, was held in Harrogate's Mercer Art Gallery in 2003 and 2004.