Figure and portrait sculptor, and teacher, born in Church Kirk, Lancashire, who studied at Manchester School of Art and in the sculpture department of the Royal College of Art, under Édouard Lantéri. He admired Ancient Egyptian sculpture and the work of Rodin. Marsden met Hilda, his future wife, who became his assistant, at the Royal College, their daughter being the painter Stella Marsden. Walter taught at Hammersmith and St Martin’s Schools of Art. During World War I he was taken prisoner and was awarded the Military Cross and Bar, during the Second War being employed on camouflage. He was elected RBS. Marsden showed frequently at the RA (from 1966 being in receipt of the Turner annuity as an “artist of reputation” but not a member of the Academy), also at Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester City Art Gallery and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts.

Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)


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