Arthur Sherwood-Edwards was an architect, painter and sculptor. He was born in Leicester on 7 February 1870 and educated in Grimsby and at the Newcastle Government School of Art, where he won a bronze medal. His design for a war memorial in Sale, Manchester dedicated to the 410 local men who died in WW1, was selected from 26 entries and unveiled in May 1925 by Major General Solly-Flood in front of a crowd of 10,000 people. The cenotaph surmounted with a portland stone statue of St George with bowed head still stands in front of Sale Town Hall.
Arthur Sherwood-Edwards worked for Manchester City Council’s Architects Department and during WW2 completed many drawings of Manchester’s buildings damaged during the blitz, several of which are now in the collection of Manchester Art Gallery. The Free Trade Hall, Manchester, was one of those buildings damaged and during its 1950s rebuild, Arthur Sherwood-Edwards was commissioned to complete a mural of the infamous 1819 Peterloo Massacre and sculptures for the facade on Windmill Street side. The mural and sculptures are now part of the Radisson Hotel as the Hall was sold by the council in the late 1990s.
Arthur Sherwood-Edwards was a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts (10 works), RBA, RI, ROI, Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery and at the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. He died in Ashton upon Mersey, his home for many years, on 21 November 1960. On the death of his wife in 1980 many of his paintings were sold at a studio sale in Manchester.
His work is represented in several public collections including Manchester City Art Gallery and Derby Museum and Art Gallery, who hold over 40 of his works.
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