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Apr 01, 1899 Liscard, United Kingdom Died on 11 Mar 1978 (aged 78)
British painter and sculptor
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About Laurence Bradshaw
- Laurence Bradshaw (1899–1978) was an English sculptor, printmaker, and artist.
- Bradshaw had been a socialist since his youth and had joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in the early 1930s.Bradshaw joined the artist Frank Brangwyn as his assistant in the 1920s; Brangwyn himself had been an assistant to the socialist polymath William Morris.
- Bradshaw designed several posters for London Transport from 1935 to 1937.In 1955, Bradshaw won the commission to design the Tomb of Karl Marx at his burial place in Highgate Cemetery.
- Bradshaw designed the whole of Marx's monument including the plinth and the calligraphy of the texts on the monument, but did not sign the finished work.
- Bradshaw considered that his design must be "...not a monument to a man only but to a great mind and a great philosopher." The tomb was designated a Grade I listed monument in 1974.Other notable communist figures that Bradshaw sculpted included the African-American scholar and activist W.
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- Du Bois, the Trinidadian musician and actor Edric Connor, the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid, and the British communist leader Harry Pollitt.
