MITFORD-BARBERTON, Ivan

Artist

Ivan Mitford-Barberton was born in Somerset East, Eastern Cape. He taught art at the Michaelis School of Art in Cape Town and was sculptor of several monuments in South Africa, inter alia the controversial bronze statue of Gen. J.C. Smuts in Cape Town. He died on 9 September 1976 in Hout Bay, Cape Town.

(South African History Online)

List of projects

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1820 Settlers - Stone of Memory: 1953. Selborne, East London, Eastern Cape - Designer

1820 Settlers' Memorial: 1953. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Designer

Bible Monument: 1962. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Artist - sculptured bronze panels

Colonial Mutual Life Building: 1933. Durban, KwaZulu-Natal - Artist

Jan Smuts Statue: 1974. Cape Town, Western Cape - Sculptor

Nongqawuse Grave: 1969. Alexandria, Eastern Cape - Artist

Post Office: 1948. George, Western Cape - Artist

SA Mutual Life Assurance Society Building - Mutual Heights: 1934-1936. Cape Town, Western Cape - Artist

Settler Family: 1969. Makhanda (Grahamstown), Eastern Cape - Sculptor

Books citing MITFORD-BARBERTON

Crump, Alan & Van Niekerk, Raymund. 1988. Public sculptures & reliefs Cape Town. Cape Town: Clifton Publications. pp 30, 31 (ill.), 32; 34; 36; 38; 68; 81

K[nox], WH (Editor). 1933-4. Arts in South Africa, The. Durban: Knox printing and publishing. pp 182

SAWW & Wooten & Gibson. 1963. Who's Who of Southern Africa 1963. Johannesburg: Wooten & Gibson (Pty) Ltd. pp 541

Werth, Albert & Harmsen, Frieda. 1993. Our Art/Ons Kuns 4. Pretoria: Foundation for Education, Science and Technology. pp 18–25