Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen
Born 13 October 1899
Died 21 July 1968
Active: 1927 - 1950
Country of birth and death: England
Sculptor
Born in Croydon. He was the son of Arthur Joseph Hungerford Pollen (1866–1937) expert on gunnery and businessman and the grandson of the decorative designer and curator Joseph Hungerford Pollen (1820-1902). In 1926 he married the Honorable Daphne Baring, daughter of Cecil Baring, 3rd Baron Revelstoke of Membland.
Pollen attended Downside School. In the 1920s he began exhibiting and was elected a member of the London Group in 1929. Pollen also exhibited with the New English Art Club and at the Royal Academy. He died in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
Works
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Locations
Address 28 St Leonard's Terrace London SW England | View on map
1932 (Circa) - 1933 (Circa)
Address 3 Onslow Gardens London SW England | View on map
1935 (Circa) - 1937 (Circa)
Address 57 Onslow Square London SW7 England | View on map
1939 (Circa) - 1950 (Circa)
Studio located at 12 Avenue Studios 76 Fulham Road London SW3 England | View on map
Exhibitions, Meetings, Awards and other Events
Exhibited at Leeds City Art Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927
'Head of Girl'
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts (Summer Exhibition), 1768-
1932 - 1950
Exhibited 7 times, nine works in all
Exhibited at The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Annual Exhibition, 1861-1951
1937
Exhibited once (one work)
Institutional and Business Connections
Member of London Group
1929
Exhibited fourteen times with the London Group including the roof-top exhibition of garden sculpture at Selfridge's Department Store in June 1930
Sources
Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, Leeds City Art Gallery 1927
1927 (Presumed)
Cat. No. 334, pp. 23, 29
Census Returns of England and Wales, 1901
2005
RG13 piece 22 folio 154 page 31
England & Wales, Death Index: 1916-2007
2007
Name: Arthur J L Pollen Death Registration Month/Year: 1968 Age at death (estimated): 68 Registration district: Henley Inferred County: Oxfordshire Volume: 6b Page: 885
England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915
2006
Name: Arthur Joseph L Pollen
Year of Registration: 1899
Quarter of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec
District: Croydon
County: Greater London, Kent, Surrey
Volume: 2a
Page: 258
The London Group 1913-1939: The artists and their works
1995
p. 229
The Times Digital Archive 1785-1985
2008
The Times, Saturday, Jul 14, 1928; pg. 12; Issue 44945; col C
A Promising Sculptor.
Category: Reviews
Citing this record
'Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen', 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_1251208571, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
