Children in Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 1947
Start Date: 2 June 1947
End Date: 20 June 1947
Type: Exhibition
Description: The exhibition was held at the Royal Water Colour Society's Galleries in Conduit Street, London. The exhibition was made possible, in part, through the sales of furniture from the Society's rented offices in Portland Place, which amounted to £250.
The exhibition committee was composed of Charles Wheeler, H. Brownsword, C. Thomas, G. E. Campbell, G. A. Holman, E. R. Bevan (Chairman), and H. W. Palliser.
Six works were sold in total: two by T. J. Murphy, M. Wheeler, and one by R. Fletcher, and A. Acheson.
The society recorded that illustrations of the exhibition appeared in the Illustrated London News, and that some of the exhibits were televised.
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Joseph Murphy
Exhibitors included Muriel Wheeler
Exhibitors included Rosamund Mary Beatrice Fletcher
Exhibitors included Anne Crawford Acheson
Organized by Charles Thomas Wheeler
Organized by Harold Brownsword
Organized by George Edgar Campbell
Organized by Cecil Walter Thomas
Organized by George A. Holman
Organized by E. Roland Bevan
Organized by Herbert William Palliser
Citing this record
'Children in Sculpture (Royal Society of British Sculptors), 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_1273758365, accessed 26 Mar 2023]
