About Alan Brough
Lived 1890 – 1986 (aged 95–96). Alan Brough was a sculptor.
Alan Brough (17 January 1890 – 1986) was a sculptor, born at Morley, near Wilmslow, Cheshire, active from 1926 until 1951. Brough studied at Manchester School of Art. A coal sculpture by Brough called Pit Brow Lassie made in 1926 is on display in the Science Museum, London. His sculpture Primavera, from 1927 is on display in Manchester City Art Gallery.
In April 1934 he carved a figure called Black Hercules from a 1.25 ton piece of coal from a mine belonging to Manchester Collieries.
Brough was a member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts. He died in 1986 at his daughter’s house in Marchamley.
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