Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / National Museum of Wales), 1942
End Date: October 1942
Type: Exhibition
Description: An exhibition of 199 works exhibited at the National Museum of Wales, predominantly oil paintings and works on paper by a number of artists serving in the allied forces during the Second World War. Organised by the British Council with the Co-operation of the Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts.
Work by American artists were excluded. 'Examples of the Art of China and Russia have been included, but, owing to present conditions, it is regretted that full justice has not been done to the art of these countries.'
Exhibits
Exhibition included Spring
1942
for sale at exhibition
Exhibition included Crouching Girl
1942
for sale at exhibition
Exhibition included Mask
1942
for sale at exhibition
Exhibition included The Rt Hon. Winston Churchill
1942
Exhibition included Head
1942
Contributed to the exhibition by A. Jannis, Esq. Work was for sale at the exhibition.
Exhibition included Professor Sigmund Freud
1942
Exhibition included Head
1942
Exhibition included Seated Figure
1942
lent by Professor Lavrin
Exhibition included Mask
1942
Exhibition included Figure
1942
Exhibition included Flight
1942
for sale at the exhibition
Locations
Took place at National Museum of Wales Cathays Park Cardiff | View on map
October 1942
The exhibition originated in Edinburgh in May 1941 and was to be toured by C.E.M.A. during 1942 and 1943.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts
October 1942
Participants
Exhibitors included John Gordon Cluysenaar
October 1942
Exhibitors included Jannis
October 1942
Exhibitors included Mary Duras
October 1942
Exhibitors included Oscar Nemon
October 1942
Exhibitors included Pepino
October 1942
Exhibitors included Marin Studin
October 1942
Exhibitors included Karel Vogel
October 1942
Exhibitors included Elizabeth Wolff-Furth
October 1942
Sources
Catalogue of Works by Allied Artists
1942
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery newspaper cuttings. Vol.4, 1937-1950
p. 101
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Works by Allied Artists (Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts / National Museum of Wales), 1942', 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=msib1_1205919426, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
