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John Francis Kavanagh
Irish sculptor and artist (1903–1984) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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