Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1894
End Date: 1894 (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 five Artists' Exhibitions, two exhibitions of works on loan, two "Arts and Crafts" Exhibitions, an International Photographic Exhibition, and an exhibition of Black and White. These were of a high standard of excellence, and were visited by over 333,000 people' (Year's Art, 1894, p. 172).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture shown in the South Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Love's Whispers
Exhibition included Model for Door Panel of a Cabinet
Exhibition included Salamanders
Exhibition included Medallion Portrait, Mrs Richard Honeyburne
Exhibition included Media and Aeson
Exhibition included Molly Bawn
Exhibition included Her First Bracelet
Exhibition included Perfume Cup
Offered for sale Love's Whispers
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Model for Door Panel of a Cabinet
£8
Offered for sale Salamanders
£4
Offered for sale Media and Aeson
£6 6s.
Offered for sale Molly Bawn
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Her First Bracelet
£26 5s.
Offered for sale Perfume Cup
£12 12s.
Participants
Exhibitors included George Frederick Halse
'Her First Bracelet'
Exhibitors included Kathleen Trousdell Shaw
'Molly Bawn'
Exhibitors included Mark Rogers Junior
'Media and Aeson'
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
'Perfume Cup'
Exhibitors included (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin
'Medallion Portrait, Mrs Richard Honeyburne'
Exhibitors included Amy Cobham-Brewer
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé
'Love's Whispers'
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1894
1894
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1894', 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_1207150350, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
