Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1906
Start Date: 20 February 1906
End Date: 2 June 1906
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 'Since the opening (October 1st, 1888), there have been seventeen artists' exhibitions, and seventeen special exhibitions on loan, or of "arts and crafts," and the like. The visitors to these exhibitions who paid for admission were 713,653 people' (Year's Art, 1907, p. 254).
Policy: 'Commission on sales, 5 per cent. on Catalogue price [...]
London agents, to whom all works for exhibition from or near London, and south and west of London, should be addressed: Messrs. Dicksee & Co., 7, Duke Street, St. James's, London, S.W. Works sent to Leeds direct should be addressed to a local agent there to be unpacked'(Year's Art, 1907, pp. 254-55).
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Little Sea Maiden
Exhibition included Lucrezia Borgia
Exhibition included A Waif
Exhibition included St Francis of Assisi
Exhibition included Placque
Exhibition included Placque
Exhibition included Farewell
Exhibition included The Favourite
Exhibition included Plaque
Exhibition included Hypnotism
Exhibition included Door Knocker
Exhibition included The Year's at the Spring
Exhibition included The Green Beetle
Exhibition included Victory
Exhibition included Mother and Child
Exhibition included Boy and Tortoise
Exhibition included Playmates
Exhibition included A West Wind
Exhibition included An East Wind
Exhibition included Echo and Narcissus
Exhibition included Box
Exhibition included Mermaid Ring
Exhibition included Design for Grotesque Gargoyle
Exhibition included Sketch Model
Exhibition included Portrait of the Late Revnd Mother M. M. A. Ellis, Supervisor for 49 Years of Loreto Convent, Hulme
Exhibition included Sketch Model
Exhibition included Portrait of an Old Man
Exhibition included Swimming
Exhibition included Mushroom King
Exhibition included Mulberry Bush
Exhibition included Frame Containing 'Six Days of Creation' Panels
Exhibition included A Rush Through the Surf
Exhibition included Portrait of John Shaw, Esq.
Exhibition included Sérénité
Exhibition included Plaquette
Exhibition included Study of a Head
Exhibition included Design for Panel
Exhibition included The Reward of Valour
Exhibition included The Late Sir Henry Irving
Exhibition included Charity
Exhibition included Eventide
Offered for sale The Little Sea Maiden
£36 15s.
Offered for sale Lucrezia Borgia
£4 4s.
Offered for sale A Waif
On sale by commission in plaster for £30 and bronze for £130
Offered for sale St Francis of Assisi
£1 10s.
Offered for sale Placque
15s.
Offered for sale Placque
18s.
Offered for sale Farewell
£36 15s.
Offered for sale The Favourite
£6 6s.
Offered for sale Plaque
£1 5s.
Offered for sale Hypnotism
Offered for sale Door Knocker
£60
Offered for sale The Year's at the Spring
£10 10s.
Offered for sale The Green Beetle
£8 8s.
Offered for sale Victory
£7 7s.
Offered for sale Mother and Child
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Boy and Tortoise
£12 12s.
Offered for sale Playmates
£10 10s.
Offered for sale A West Wind
£12 12s.
On sale as a pair with cat. no. 451, An East Wind
Offered for sale An East Wind
£12 12s.
On sale as a pair with cat. no. 450, A West Wind
Offered for sale Echo and Narcissus
£25
Offered for sale Box
£2 10s.
Offered for sale Mermaid Ring
£5 5s.
Offered for sale Swimming
£3 3s.
Offered for sale Mushroom King
£3 10s.
Offered for sale Mulberry Bush
£3 3s.
Offered for sale Frame Containing 'Six Days of Creation' Panels
£30
Offered for sale A Rush Through the Surf
£10 10s.
Offered for sale Sérénité
£30
Offered for sale Plaquette
£1 5s.
Offered for sale Study of a Head
£1 10s.
Offered for sale The Reward of Valour
£85
Offered for sale The Late Sir Henry Irving
£2 2s.
Offered for sale Charity
£7 7s.
Offered for sale Eventide
£35
Participants
Exhibitors included Frances Bessie Burlison
'The Year's at the Spring'
Exhibitors included Herbert James Maryon
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gertrude Eliza Wright
'Playmates'
Exhibitors included Susan Ruth Canton
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Richard Louis Garbe
'Echo and Narcissus'
Exhibitors included Alfred Hughes
'Box'
Exhibitors included Walter Gilbert
'Door Knocker'
Exhibitors included Lucy Gwendolen Williams
'Hypnotism'
Exhibitors included Frances (Fanny) Taplin Darlington
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Sophia Rosamond Praeger
'A Waif'
Exhibitors included Joseph Crosland McClure
'Farewell'
Exhibitors included Florence Midwood
'The Favourite'
Exhibitors included J. T. R. Blair
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Sidney Oddy
'Design for Grotesque Gargoyle'
Exhibitors included Joseph Thewlis
'Sketch Model'
Exhibitors included Emily Cattley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included (Peter) Frederick Marriott
'The Reward of Valour'
Exhibitors included Edward Caldwell Spruce
'The Late Sir Henry Irving'
Exhibitors included Ellen Mary Rope
'Charity'
Exhibitors included Honora Mary Rigby
'Eventide'
Exhibitors included Albert Bruce Joy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Christopher Ambler
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Mewburn Crook
Multiple works
Sources
Catalogue of the Spring Exhibition, The City Art Gallery, Leeds 1906
1906
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, The Spring Exhibition, 1906', 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_1210006987, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
