Fountain for Sloane Square (Royal Academy of Arts), 1948
Start Date: 1948
Type: Competition
Description: A competition to design and produce a fountain for Sloane Square, London, which was financed through the Leighton Fund.
Policy: All sculptor members were invited to compete for the design. The total sum payable for the work from the Leighton Fund was £6,500 (see RA 'Annual Report, 1948', 1949, pp. 61-62).
Related Events
Funded by Leighton Fund (Royal Academy of Arts), 1896-1951
1949
Note that this competition was solely financed through the Leighton Fund.
Participants
Contestants included Gilbert Ledward
1949
Winner of the Leighton Fund prize for a design for a 'Fountain for Sloane Square'.
Judged by William Reid Dick
1949
Appointed as an assessor of the competition.
Judged by Charles Thomas Wheeler
1949
Appointed as an assessor of the competition.
Citing this record
'Fountain for Sloane Square (Royal Academy of Arts), 1948', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/event.php?id=msib4_1264610483, accessed 01 Jun 2023]
