The Centenary Opening Exhibition (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1913
End Date: 1913
Type: Exhibition
Description: 176 works were contained within two rooms.
Policy: The Society 'decided upon the erection of a new Gallery, which, having now been completed, enables the Society to present the exhibition to which this catalogue refers, thus commencing a second century in the Society's history' ('A Brief History of the Birmingham Royal Society of Artists', 1913).
The exhibition displayed exclusively works by Members and Associates of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists,
Display Arrangement: Sculpture exhibited with pictures in the Main Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Three Stamped Figure Plates
1913
Exhibition included Seven Stamped Switch Plates
1913
Exhibition included Original Study of a Lion
1913
Exhibition included Original Study of a Boy with Puppy Dog
1913
Offered for sale Original Study of a Lion
1913
£50
Offered for sale Original Study of a Boy with Puppy Dog
1913
£7 7s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Midgley
Multiple works
Sources
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists. The Centenary Opening Exhibition, 1913 Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1913
p. 29 (2, 6, 175-76)
Citing this record
'The Centenary Opening Exhibition (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1913', 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=msib4_1204022861, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
