Leslie Tillotson Thornton
Born 1925
Active: 1945 - 2010
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born Skipton, North Yorkshire. Studied at Leeds College of Art 1945-48; Royal College of Art 1949-51. Taught at Bromley College of Art.
Exhibitions include: Royal Academy of Arts 1952-4; New Sculptors’ Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London 1955; Wakefield Art Gallery 1956; Royal Scottish Academy 1956; Gimpel Fils 1957, 60 (solos); LCC 57; British Council Young British Sculptors toured Germany 1955-56 and Sweden 56-57; BC 1956; BCSP 1957; SPB 1957; Leeds City Art Gallery 1958; The Religious Theme, Tate Gallery, London 1958; AC 1958, 60, 61, Retrospective Exhibition, Holden Gallery, Manchester, 1981; Royal Academy, 1987; 100 Years of Sculpture, Moore Institute, Leeds, 2004; Touring Exhibition 'Geometry of Fear' Arts Council, 2007-9.
Collections include: Arts Council; Leeds City Art Galleries; Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Further reading: Ten Young British Sculptors, British Council, Sao Paulo and tour of South America, 1957-58, (exh. cat.).
J.P. Hodin, ‘Jeunes Artistes’, in Quadrum, No. 7, 1959, pp. 138-9.
J. Burr, ‘Gimpel Fils Gallery, London’, in Apollo, October 1969, p. 336.
S. Field, ‘London Galleries; exhibition at Gimpel Fils’, in Art and Artists, Vol. 4, October 1969, p. 54.
Biography from Whiteley (2001) and additional information from the artist's website http://www.leslie-thornton.net/ (accessed 25 July 2010)
Institutional and Business Connections
Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors
1951
Studied at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
July 1951
Listed as a 'Second Class' graduate from the School of Sculpture in the College's 1951 'Convocation' list.
Sources
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
p. 32
Royal College of Art, Convocation, 12 July 1951
July 1951
Unpaged.
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Annual Report of the Council, for the Year Ending 31 December 1951, to be Presented at the Forty-Eighth Annual General Meeting, 1952
February 1952
p. 3.
Citing this record
'Leslie Tillotson Thornton', 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/person.php?id=msib4_1245073666, accessed 24 Nov 2020]
