Edward Charles N. Folkard
Born 16 May 1911
Died 2005
Active: 1933 - 1971
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born London. Studied at Goldsmith’s College of Art and Royal Academy of Art, London. Elected Fellow of Royal Society of British Sculptors 1955.
Exhibitions include : regularly exhibited at Royal Academy from 1932; R.B.A. Galleries, London Group and Royal Institute of Fine Arts; LCC 1957.
Biography from Whiteley (2001)
Works
Dates are usually the year a work was exhibited so may differ from date of production.
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St George - Equestrian Statuette
1939
Marie
1951
Locations
Address 2 Court Farm Road London England | View on map
1939 (Circa) - 1947 (Circa)
p. 62
Address 61 Kinnerton Street London England | View on map
1947 (Circa) - 1951 (Circa)
Address 4 Inkerman Terrace Allen Street London W8 England | View on map
1951 (Circa) - 1963 (Circa)
Studio located at 4 Stanley Studios Park Walk London SW10 | View on map
1948 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
'St George - Equestrian Statuette'
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Ninetieth Annual Exhibition, 1951
Multiple works
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1932 - 1963
Exhibited 13 times (7 times up to 1951), twenty-one works in all
Participant in Herbert Baker Scholarship (Royal Academy of Arts), 1945-
March 1950
It was recorded in 1951 that 'the remaining £100 of his Scholarship in Sculpture was paid to E. C. N. Folkard, to carry out his programme of study in France'.
Institutional and Business Connections
Studied at Royal Academy Schools
1933 (Presumed)
Awarded a second Landseer Prize of £20 and bronze medal for a set of three models of a figure from the life, in 1933. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1933', (1934), p. 39.
Teacher of modeling at Royal College of Art (including National Art Training School)
1948 - 1952
Listed as a tutor in the School of Sculpture in the College's prospectuses from 1948 onwards. Folkard is still listed as a tutor in 1951-1952.
Unsuccessful in ballot for election to Royal Academy of Arts
Despite nominations in 1950, 1958, 1965, 1970 and 1971.
Personal and Professional Connections
Nominated by Robert Buhler
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Siegfried Joseph Charoux
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Frank Owen Dobson
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Charles Thomas Wheeler
13 June 1950 - March 1965
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1950 and 1965, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by Edward Le Bas
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by William McMillan
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Arnold Mason
13 June 1950
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Gilbert Ledward
March 1958
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Malcolm Osborne
March 1958
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Henry George Rushbury
March 1958 - March 1965
Two nominations for Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA], in 1958 and 1965, both unsuccessful.
Nominated by (Augustus John) Ruskin Spear
23 January 1970
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Nominated by Edward Brantwood Maufe
26 June 1971
For Associate of the Royal Academy [ARA]; unsuccessful.
Sources
Directory of sculptors working and exhibiting in Britain in the 1950s, by Gillian Whiteley
2001
pp. 13-4
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Edward Charles N Folkard Birth Date: 16 May 1911 Death Registration Month/Year: May 2005 Age at death (estimated): 94 Registration district: Monmouth Inferred County: Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Monmouthshire Register number: A2E District and Subdistrict: 839/1A Entry number: 15
Prospectus, Royal College of Art, 1948-1949 Royal College of Art
1948
Unpaged staff list.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, c.1939-c.1961
1961 (Circa)
p.232.
Royal College of Art Calendar, 1951-1952 Royal College of Art
1951
p. 8.
The Royal College of Art: Its Influences on Education, Art and Design 1900-1950, 1991 Royal College of Art
August 1991
p. 591.
Citing this record
'Edward Charles N. Folkard', 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=msib6_1232033177, accessed 24 Sep 2023]