Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1890
End Date: 1890 (Presumed)
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 'Recitals of music are given in the Central Court twice a week during the special exhibitions, and prove a great attraction. The upper floor, in which the special exhibitions are held, consists of five extensive rooms, and a couple of balconies overlooking the Central Court. The galleries are all lighted from the roof, and at night by electricity. Since the opening there have been two Artists' Exhibitions, and two exhibitions of works on loan. These were of a high standard of excellence, and were visited by over 195,000 people' (Year's Art, 1891, p. 165).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture was shown in the East Room, the South Room and in the Central Court and Museum in Case E.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Leda
Exhibition included Thine
Exhibition included In Wonderland
Exhibition included An Italian Girl
Exhibition included The Birth of Venus
Exhibition included The Elements
case E
Exhibition included Portrait Bust of the Late James Broughton
Offered for sale Leda
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Thine
£2 2s.
Offered for sale In Wonderland
£5 5s.
Offered for sale An Italian Girl
£1 5s.
Offered for sale The Birth of Venus
£50
Participants
Exhibitors included Benjamin Creswick
'Portrait Bust of the Late James Broughton'
Exhibitors included John Wormald Appleyard
'The Elements'
Exhibitors included Horace Montford
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
Multiple works
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1890
1890
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1890', 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=msib5_1206724662, accessed 31 Mar 2023]
