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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
Market Square, Harlow
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