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Public Art in Coventry City Centre
The postwar redevelopment of Coventry led to a huge growth in Public Art. The Coventry Society is a great supporter and proponent of public art in our city and we have led trails and created maps to show it off. You can see a map of one such tour here.
Some of our public art is listed below:
William Reid-Dick – Self Sacrifice, Lady Godiva – Bronze cast by Morris Singer
Coventry Cross (replica of 1542)
John Hutton – Cathedral West Screen – engraved glass
Jacob Epstain – St. Michael and the Devel – Bronze cast by Morris Singer
Philip Bentham – Coventry Boy – Bronze cast by Morris Singer
Coventry University Logo, Negus & Negus, based on David Bethel (Head of Art College 1955) – Phoenix
Jean Parker – The Enfolding – Bath Stone
Gary Galpin – Mother and Children – limestone
Pictures by Colin Marsh at the Herbert
Dr. Tim Trelfall – Barra suite 5 – limestone
John Poole – Coventry Coat of Arms
F. E. McWilliam – Portrait Figure of Elizabeth Frink – bronze 1965
Walter Ritchie – Man’s Struggle
Paul De Menchaux – Basilica – Purbeck, Portland limestone, Frankland grey granite
Henry Wilson – Council House sculptures – Runcorn stone & Portland stone
Unknown Artists –
Sculptures on banks in High Street
Sculpture and Metalwork motifs on the former National Provincial Bank
Trevor Tennant – Lady Godiva and Peeping Tom (clock)
Trevor Tennant – The People of Coventry – Doulting stone
Unknown Craftsman – Peeping Tom
William George Mitchell – Panels
William George Mitchell – Three Tuns – concrete
Robert Conybear & Uta Molling – Thread Through Time – concrete rubble mix
Sir Guy and the Dun Cow by Alma Ramsey
Fred Millett – Locarno – Glass tiles
Thomas Gordan Cullen – History of Coventry Tiles
James C. Brown – Belgrade Mural
Norelle Keddie – Bryan Bailey Memorial
Helaine Blumenfeld – Two sides of a Woman
Simon Events – Steel Horse (Trigger)
Other Public Art that has been Lost or Relocated
In addition to these 34 pieces of public art, there are a number of works of public art that have graced our streets, but are no longer in situ. In particular there were a number of significant art works in Market Way and Smithford Way.
Follow this link to see some of these.
There is also an art trail along the Coventry Canal.