John Francis Kavanagh

John Francis Kavanagh (24 September 1903 – 18 June 1984) was an Irish sculptor and artist. In 1930 he was awarded the British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture.[1]

In 1933 he was appointed Head of Department of Sculpture and Modelling at the Leeds College of Art.[2]

Kavanagh was an Associate member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors from 1935, and elected a Fellow in 1945. In 1951 he took up the post of Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at the Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, New Zealand.[3]

John Kavanagh with his sculpture of Battle-waggon
  1. ^ "The British School at Rome Scholarship in Sculpture". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  2. ^ Snoddy, Theo (1996). Dictionary of Irish Artists: 20th Century. Wolfhound Press Ltd. pp. 222–224.
  3. ^ "John Francis Kavanagh". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851–1951. University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011. Retrieved 23 February 2017.