Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1900
Start Date: 26 February 1900
End Date: 1900
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 'Since the opening (Oct. 1, 1888), there have been twelve Artists' Exhibitions, and eleven special exhibitions on loan, or of "Arts and Crafts," and the like. The visitors to these exhibitions who paid for admission were 565,188 people' (Year's Art, 1901, p. 210).
Policy: 'Sending-in days: London, January 17th and 18th; and Leeds, January 15th and 16th. Commission on sales, 5 per cent. on Catalogue price. London Agents: Messrs. Dicksee & Co., 7, Ryder Street, St. James's, S.W.' (Year's Art, 1901, p. 210).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture was shown in a case in the North Room, on a pedestal in the East Room, on pedestals in the South Room and on a pedestal in the East Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Captives
Exhibition included Christening Cup
Exhibition included The Sea Star
Exhibition included Echo
Exhibition included Owen, Son of H. A. Hering, Esq.
Exhibition included Invocation
Exhibition included Hagar
Exhibition included Marbles
Exhibition included Favourites
Exhibition included A Sea Maiden
Exhibition included Joan of Arc
Exhibition included Dreaming
Exhibition included Rt Rev. W. B. Carpenter, DD, DCL, Lord Bishop of Ripon
Exhibition included Portrait Bust of A. C. White, Esq.
Offered for sale Captives
£5
Offered for sale Christening Cup
On sale by commission in silver for £16 16s. or plated silver for £10 10s.
Offered for sale The Sea Star
£21
Offered for sale Echo
£15 15s.
Offered for sale Invocation
£10 10s.
Offered for sale Hagar
£26 5s.
Also on sale by commission in bronze for £52 10s. and marble for £105
Offered for sale Marbles
£100
Offered for sale Favourites
£70
Offered for sale A Sea Maiden
£105
Offered for sale Joan of Arc
On sale by commission in marble for £315
Offered for sale Rt Rev. W. B. Carpenter, DD, DCL, Lord Bishop of Ripon
£3 3s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Albert Arthur Toft
'Hagar'
Exhibitors included Frances Isobel Swan
'Marbles'
Exhibitors included Henry Charles Fehr
'Favourites'
Exhibitors included Arthur George Walker
'A Sea Maiden'
Exhibitors included Frank Mowbray Taubman
'Joan of Arc'
Exhibitors included Frederick Rogers
'Dreaming'
Exhibitors included George Gilbert Walker
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Mary Louisa) Hermione Unwin
'Owen, Son of H. A. Hering, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Mervyn Lawrence
'Echo'
Exhibitors included Ernest Sichel
'The Sea Star'
Exhibitors included Florence Harriet Steele
'Christening Cup'
Exhibitors included Clement William Jewitt
'Captives'
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1900
1900
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1900', 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_1208448656, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
