Exhibition of Open Air Sculpture, Battersea Park (London County Council), 1948
End Date: 1948
Type: Exhibition
Description: Organised by the London County Council, in collaboration with the Arts Council.
Charles Wheeler, President of the Royal Society of British Sculptors, served on the organising committee. A number of members of the Society also exhibited works in the show. The RBS 'Annual Report, 1948', (1949), records that 146,000 people visited the exhibition.
Display Arrangement: Works were displayed outdoors in Battersea Park.
Organizing Institution or Venue
Participants included Royal Society of British Sculptors
1948
President served on the organising committee, and members exhibited works in the show.
Participants
Exhibitors included William Reid Dick
1948
Exhibitors included Charles Thomas Wheeler
1948
Exhibitors included Siegfried Joseph Charoux
1948
Exhibitors included Dora Gordine
1948
Exhibitors included Alfred Frank Hardiman
1948
Exhibitors included Gilbert Ledward
1948
Exhibitors included (Arthur) Eric Rowton Gill
1948
Work exhibited posthumously.
Exhibitors included James Havard Thomas
1948
Work exhibited posthumously.
Officers included Charles Thomas Wheeler
1948
Served on the organising committee.
Citing this record
'Exhibition of Open Air Sculpture, Battersea Park (London County Council), 1948', 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_1274085078, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
