Leeds City Art Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927
Start Date: March 1927
End Date: April 1927
Type: Annual exhibition
Policy: 'The British Artists' Exhibitions, for the organisation of which Sir Joseph Duveen has made himself responsible, aim at presenting artists who are waiting to win their public, and who have satisfied the standard of achievement imposed by a committee of brother artists commanding general respect, to appreciative picture-buyers throughout the Empire [...]'
Display Arrangement: Sculpture was shown in the East Room.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Firstborn
Exhibition included Mourning Women
Exhibition included Miss Margaret Waite
Exhibition included Pietà
Exhibition included The Finding of Moses
Exhibition included The Apple Bough
Exhibition included Hercules
Exhibition included Diana
Exhibition included Head of a Girl
Exhibition included John
Exhibition included The Arrival
Exhibition included The Artist's Mother
Exhibition included Cat
Exhibition included The Merry Peasant
Exhibition included Child's Head
Exhibition included Bibi Na Toto
Exhibition included Cow and Girl
Exhibition included A Greek Runner
Exhibition included Bambino
Exhibition included A Small Conceit
Offered for sale The Firstborn
£50
Offered for sale Mourning Women
£40
Offered for sale Miss Margaret Waite
£35
Offered for sale Pietà
£30
on sale by commission in plaster for £30 and bronze for £50
Offered for sale The Finding of Moses
£30
Offered for sale The Apple Bough
£45
Offered for sale Hercules
£50
Offered for sale Diana
£50
Offered for sale Head of a Girl
£45
Offered for sale John
£35
Offered for sale The Arrival
£30
Offered for sale The Artist's Mother
£50
Offered for sale Cat
£25
Offered for sale The Merry Peasant
£31 10s.
Offered for sale Child's Head
£21
Offered for sale Bibi Na Toto
£42
Offered for sale Cow and Girl
£35
Offered for sale A Greek Runner
£45
Offered for sale Bambino
£30
Offered for sale A Small Conceit
£31 10s.
Participants
Exhibitors included Anne Crawford Acheson
'A Small Conceit'
Exhibitors included Dora Clarke
'The Artist's Mother'
Exhibitors included Florence Ada Kendrick
'The Merry Peasant'
Exhibitors included Marion Willis Stanfield
'Child's Head'
Exhibitors included Arnrid Banniza Johnston
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Harry S. White
'A Greek Runner'
Exhibitors included James Arthur Woodford
'Bambino'
Exhibitors included Mary Morton
'The Arrival'
Exhibitors included J. Bickerdike
'John'
Exhibitors included Muriel Wheeler
'The Firstborn'
Exhibitors included H. M. Holman
'Mourning Women'
Exhibitors included Maud Llewellyn Wethered
'Miss Margaret Waite'
Exhibitors included Ethel Cotterill
'Pietà'
Exhibitors included Ursula Ulalia Edgcumbe
Multiple works
Exhibitors included David Evans
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Arthur Joseph Lawrence Pollen
'Head of Girl'
Citing this record
'Leeds City Art Gallery, Inaugural Exhibition of the Work of Living British Artists, 1927', 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_1213202987, accessed 25 Mar 2023]
