Leonard McComb: The Bartlett Mosaics
Title: The Bartlett Mosaics
Artist: Leonard McComb (1930-2018, British)
Location: Westminster Cathedral (RC)
Date: 2008
This work was shortlisted for the ACE Award for Art in a Religious Context 2009. One of many ovoid domes in the Cathedral which has been given imagery and decoration using mosaic. The works depict St Francis preaching to the birds and St Anthony to the fishes.
Leonard McComb RA (1930-2018, British) ‘was a versatile artist who celebrated working in various media and was unusual amongst his contemporaries in being represented in the Tate collection by watercolours, oil paintings, prints and sculptures. His sculpture Young Man Standing, also known as the Golden Man (Tate), was the subject of national controversy when it was withdrawn from exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral on the grounds of indecency.’ (Source)
Further information
Medium: Mosaic
Size: 122 x 73in
Permanent display
See McComb’s Bartlett Mosaics on the Ecclesiart map here.
Commissioner: The Dean and Chapter of Westminster Cathedral
Other artworks in Westminster Cathedral: Gerontius panels (Tom Phillips), St Thérèse of Lisieux (Giacomo Manzù), Blessed Sacrament Chapel mosaics (Boris Anrep), Stations of the Cross (Eric Gill).