The Birmingham Art Circle. The Seventy-Fifth Exhibition, 1947
Start Date: 1947
End Date: 25 January 1947
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 239 works were exhibited including three sculptures, twelve pieces of pottery, four arts and crafts works and fifteen pieces of jewellery [summary].
Policy: Exhibition included work by members of the Birmingham Easel Club and the Art Circle.
Display Arrangement: Sculpture, pottery, craftwork, jewellery and painting was displayed together. Easel Club member's works were displayed in the Small Gallery; Art Circle members' works in the Entrance Gallery and Large Gallery (including all of the sculptures, pottery, craftwork).
Exhibits
Exhibition included J. B. Melson Memorial Medal
1947
Exhibition included Alec Henshaw, Esq., MBE
1947
Exhibition included Warwickshire Miner
1947
Exhibition included 'Pa Jenkins', Esq., BA
1947
Exhibition included Head
1947
Offered for sale Warwickshire Miner
1947
£50
Offered for sale 'Pa Jenkins', Esq., BA
1947
£40
Offered for sale Head
1947
£10 10s.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Hosted by Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
Organized by Birmingham Art Circle
January 1947 - 25 January 1947
Participants
Exhibitors included Geoffrey Austin Milsom
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Reginald A. Lewis
January 1947 - 25 January 1947
Exhibited eleven works of pottery, ten of which were thrown pots or bowls and all of which were stoneware [summary].
Exhibitors included Charles E. Thomas
January 1947 - 25 January 1947
Exhibited twelve buttons, a cup and a clasp, as well and a medal (entered as a seperate object) [summary].
Citing this record
'The Birmingham Art Circle. The Seventy-Fifth Exhibition, 1947', 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_1210691363, accessed 26 Sep 2023]
