Girl in a Hat - Birmingham University, UK - Figurative Public Sculpture on Waymarking.com

This sculpture stands casually, smiling and wearing nothing but her hat. She seems fully relaxed and in control, leaning against a rail, coolly surveying all those that walk past her.

The pose and guise have long sculptural roots: Donatello’s David holds a similar classical pose, and is also young and sports only a pair a boots and an elaborate hat. Degas’ The Little Dancer Aged Fourteen stands with her feet in ballet’s fourth position, with her back arched and head tilted back.

This statue was presented to the University by Sir Robert and Lady Aitken, on Sir Robert’s retirement as Vice-Chancellor in 1968. The sculptor Bernard Sindall chose his own subject matter, and hoped that the statue would be ‘an object of pleasure to people.’

The head-turning visitor has taken up permanent residence at Chancellor's Court, near the Great Hall, at the University of Birmingham in Edgbaston.

The bronze life-size statue of a naked woman, called Girl in a Hat, has been painstakingly cleaned and restored after languishing on another part of the site.

Bernard Sindall is known not only for his sculptures but for designing coin faces.

Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Girl in a Hat Figure Type: Human Artist Name or use 'Unknown' if not known: Bernard Sindall Date created or placed or use 'Unknown' if not known: 1972 Materials used: Bronze Location: Birmingham University Campus

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