The Beginning of Art Societies and their Values To-day (Art Workers Guild), 1936
End Date: 15 May 1936
Type: Lecture and discussion
Description: Morley read paper on the origin and development of the Royal Academy, followed by Holding on the Royal Water-colour Society. Terrick Williams spoke on the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour and Reynolds-Stephens spoke on the Royal Society of British Sculptors. A. Rackham, H. Speed, L. Walker, C. Emanuel and Furse took part in the discussion (Fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art Workers' Guild, 1937, p. 12).
Policy: 'Meetings are held fortnightly, when papers are read and their subjects illustrated as fully as possible. Visitors must be introduced by a member' (Year's Art, 1913, pp. 169-70).
Organizing Institution or Venue
Organized by Art Workers Guild
Participants included Royal Society of British Sculptors
Participants
Speaker John Henry Monsell Furse
Speaker William Ernest Reynolds-Stephens
Speaker Arthur Rackham
Speaker Harold Speed
Sources
The fifty-third annual report of the committee of the Art-Workers' Guild, 1937
1937
p. 12
Citing this record
'The Beginning of Art Societies and their Values To-day (Art Workers Guild), 1936', 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_1220630471, accessed 29 May 2023]
