Walter Seymour Allward

Who was Walter Seymour Allward?

Walter Seymour Allward was a Canadian monumental sculptor widely praised for his "...original sense of spacial composition, his mastery of the classical form and his brilliant craftsmanship."

Allward's 1917 heroic monument, the Bell Telephone Memorial, has been seen as the finest example of his early works. It brought the sculptor to fame and led to Allward later creating the Canadian National Vimy Memorial in France, his most renowned work. Some of the sculptor's works have also been acquired by the National Gallery in Ottawa, Canada's preeminent art gallery.

Allward has been described as "...probably Canada's most important monumental sculptor in the first third of [the 20th] century".