Bee Series
Purchase, Reba and Dave Williams Gift, 2000
Catalogue
- Year
- 2000
- Dimensions
- Each sheet approx.: 36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Bill Woodrow
Artist

Sculpture
Bill Woodrow is a British sculptor known for transforming discarded industrial materials and found objects into figurative and abstract forms. Working since the 1970s, he has developed a distinctive practice that reveals hidden narratives within cast-off machinery, domestic appliances, and salvaged metal. His sculptures often combine welding and assembly techniques to create striking, sometimes surreal juxtapositions that interrogate the relationship between function, obsolescence, and form. His work has been exhibited internationally and remains central to postwar British sculpture.
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Separation III
2005 · Drawing
Untitled (95/04)
1995 · Oil stick on paper
[title page]
1994 · Linocut on paper
[index page]
1994 · Linocut on paper
Chromium
1994 · Linocut on paper
Wilson’s Phalarope (94/03)
1994 · Oil stick on paper
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Artist
- Bill Woodrow
- Year
- 2000
- Dimensions
- Each sheet approx.: 36 × 24 in. (91.4 × 61 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-2000-004697
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified


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