Hew Lorimer

Katharine Eustace FSA, is an independent writer on British and European sculpture from 1500 to the present. She has had a long career in local authority, university and national museums and art galleries, always with a sculptural bias. The numerous exhibitions she has curated, with benchmark catalogues, include Michael Rysbrack, Sculptor 1694–1770 (Bristol, 1982), Let’s Not Be Stupid – Richard Deacon (University of Warwick, 1992), and Canova: Ideal Heads (Ashmolean, 1995). From 2004 to 2014 she was editor of the Sculpture Journal. She is joint editor Sculpting Art History, Essays in Memory of Benedict Read (Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, 2018).Eustace has been a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee and Arts Council England’s Acceptance-in-lieu Panel. She works with many public bodies, among them ArtUK’s sculpture programme and Art Detective. She writes widely on sculpture and its contexts in her book Britannia: Icon on the Coin (Royal Mint, 2016), essays on Lawrence Bradshaw's Karl Marx Memorial for the Henry Moore Institute/Whitechapel Art Gallery (2016), and reviews and articles in the Art Newspaper and the Burlington Magazine.

• AcknowledgementsFamily Trees by Patric DickinsonList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsPrefacePart 1: Dynasties and their Houses1 ‘The house where I was born’2 A House and its Family3 The Wyld Side: and a Brush with ModernismPart 2: An Education4 Parental Training: A Paterfamilias5 Schooling6 A Step in the Right Direction: Edinburgh College of Art7 The Right Direction: Sculpture under Alexander Carrick8 With Eric GillPart 3: A Working Life9 Early Patronage and the Importance of Lettering10 Studio Practice and the Log Book11 With Basil Spence at Broughton: A First and Last Commission12 War and PeacePart 4: The Great Commissions13 Fasnakyle: The Beasties14 The National Library of Scotland: The Allegories15 South Uist: Bana Thighearna Nan Eilean – Our Lady of the Isles16 A House with Many MansionsPart 5: The Truce of Age17 Men of Scotland18 The Little Houses19 And Gardens20 Mary, Mistress of Kellie21 ‘The stigma of being ticketed “local”’AfterwordBibliographyIndex

This is a timely and necessary tribute to one of Scotland’s greatest twentieth-century sculptors. Katharine Eustace combines a detailed knowledge of Lorimer’s life with a profound empathy for his work. The result is a book worthy of its subject.