Two Bears Fountain

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Two Bears Fountain by Kenneth Keeble-Smith, 1939 (1970)
Kensington Gardens
London, May 2023

“Sculptor, painter and illustrator based in London and latterly, Farnham. He exhibited at the Royal Academy several times between 1933 and 1949, animals pre-war and figures post-war, employing a variety of stones and woods. He contributed illustrations to A.C.B. Bellerby’s ‘The Lonely Dog. A True Story’ (published 1937; reviewed, with a reproduction of one of Keeble-Smith’s line drawings, in the Times Literary Supplement, 1 January 1938, p. 13). His bronze group for the ‘Two Bears Fountain’ in Kensington Gardens was installed in 1940, stolen in 1967, and replaced with a replica in 1970.” (Kenneth Keeble-Smith, Public Sculpture of Britain)