The Autumn Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Seventeenth London Exhibition), 1914
Start Date: October 1914
End Date: November 1914
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 269 exhibits in total.
The society held its first exhibition in Knightsbridge in May 1898. 'As its title implies, the display was cosmopolitan' (The Year's Art, 1899).
Policy: Commission of twenty per cent charged upon the price realised by the artist for any sale. Artists invited to exhibit. German and Austrian Members suspended.
Display Arrangement: Mixed display of paintings, sculpture and works on paper, plus a 'private gallery' showing pictures purchased for the Tate Gallery from the 'Fund raised by the 11th National Loan Exhibition (Woman and Child in Art) held at the Grosvenor Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Jewellery
Exhibition included The Right Hon. Lord Reading, Lord Chief Justice
Exhibition included A. P. Ryder, Esq.
Exhibition included Old Man
Exhibition included Orpheus and Eurydice
part of purchases for Tate on display in private gallery
Exhibition included The Vanity Bag
shown in the Long Gallery
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
Participants
Exhibitors included Charles de Sousy Ricketts
'Orpheus and Eurydice'
Exhibitors included Thomas W. Wilkinson
'Old Man'
Exhibitors included Frederick Lessore
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Paul Cooper
'Jewellery'
Exhibitors included Feodora Maud Georgina Gleichen
'The Vanity Bag'
Sources
Hard cover volume containing bulletins, exhibition catalogues, entry forms, private view cards, passes for exhibitions and invitations for social events
Contains notice to exhibitors and conditions of exhibition.
International Society, press cuttings, from autumn 1914
1914 (Circa)
Comprehensive coverage of the exhibition from a variety of national and regional newspapers.
Citing this record
'The Autumn Exhibition of The International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers (Seventeenth London Exhibition), 1914', 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=msib2_1204936495, accessed 29 Mar 2023]
