Pedestals and Canopies (Art Workers Guild), 1887
Start Date: 6 May 1887
End Date: 20 May 1887
Type: Discussion
Description: Discussion started at ordinary meeting of the Art Worker's Guild on 6 May 1887, where Lethaby, Belcher, Somers Clarke and Thornycroft read papers; did not conclude and so continued on next off-meeting (20 May 1887), where Ford, Sedding, Pinker and Spence read papers.
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Members limited to 150. Candidates for election must be personally known to proposer and seconder, and be bona-fide workers in some art or craft' (Year's Art, 1890, p. 90).
Participants
Speaker John Belcher
Speaker Somers Clarke
Speaker Edward Onslow Ford
Speaker Henry Richard Hope-Pinker
Speaker William Richard Lethaby
Speaker William Hamo Thornycroft
Speaker John Dando Sedding
Speaker T.R. Spence
Sources
Annual Programme Cards, 1884-1934
Citing this record
'Pedestals and Canopies (Art Workers Guild), 1887', 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_1213010412, accessed 25 Sep 2023]
