War Memorial Exhibition (Royal Academy War Memorials Committee), 1919-1920
Start Date: 20 October 1919
End Date: 29 November 1920
Type: Exhibition
Description: 5,014 paying visitors attended the show.
Policy: Organised by the Royal Academy War Memorials Committee. The 1919 Annual Report records that the committee 'decided that the most satisfactory way of guiding promoters of Memorials in the choice of suitable designs would be to hold an Exhibition of approved designs as soon as possible'.
An earlier 'retrospective' exhibition was held as the Victoria and Albert Museum as an 'introduction to the main Exhibition of Modern Work which the Academy was to hold in the autumn'.
Display Arrangement: Designs in sculpture were displayed in the Central Hall and Galleries III and IV. Architecture was shown in Galleries V, VI, and VII, where there were also 'specimens of mural painting, tapestry, stained glass, manuscript and illumination, metal work, etc.'.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Included members of Royal Society of British Sculptors
October 1919 - November 1919
The 1919 Annual Report of the Royal Society of British Sculptors records that 'a most successful exhibition of designs for memorials held at the Royal Academy, in which your members were well represented. It appearing to your Council that the sculptors were inadequately represented in the Committee which was of a mixed character, by no means confined to members of the Royal Academy, representations were made to the Chairman, Sir Aston Webb, with the result that a member of your Society, nominated by your Council, was added to the Committee' (p. 7).
Organized by Royal Academy of Arts
September 1919
Organised by, and held at, the Royal Academy.
Organized by War Memorials Committee (Royal Academy of Arts), 1918
1919
Sources
Royal Society of British Sculptors. Minutes of Council Meetings No. 2, 1913-1922
1922 (Presumed)
22 July 1919
Citing this record
'War Memorial Exhibition (Royal Academy War Memorials Committee), 1919-1920', 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_1268670050, accessed 08 Mar 2021]
