Manchester Art Gallery, Exhibition of Work by Manchester Artists, 1926
Start Date: 2 October 1926
End Date: 4 December 1926
Type: Exhibition
Policy: 'The present Exhibition of work by Manchester Artists, which is arranged in Rooms 6, 7, 8 and 9, constitutes the Art Gallery's contribution to Civic Week. The majority of the exhibits consist of work selected from the contributions of artists who are members of established Art Societies in Manchester, or who are working within 20 miles of the City. Portraits of well-known Manchester citizens, whether painted by Manchester artists or not, have also been included, and a number of paintings and drawings by Manchester artists have been transferred from the Permanent Collection to the Exhibition. Works which it was not found practicable to include in the four rooms devoted to the Exhibition are arranged in the other rooms and on the Balcony as indicated in the catalogue [...]'.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Spring Idyll
Exhibition included Commemorative Plaquette for the British Empire Exhibition, Wembley
Exhibition included Memorial Medal to Dr Preston
Exhibition included Presentation Trowel and Mallet
lent by Mrs John Alker
Exhibition included Presidents' Badge of the Manchester Athenaeum Graphic Club
lent by the Manchester Athenaeum Graphic Club
Exhibition included Lord Roberts
Exhibition included Queen Alexandra
Exhibition included Aram Mouradian
Exhibition included Sir Charles Halle
Exhibition included Sir Alfred Hopkinson, KC
Exhibition included Madeline Linford
Exhibition included Emanuel Levy
Exhibition included Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS
Exhibition included Pirate Group
Exhibition included Portrait Sketch of Miss E. Wyatt
Exhibition included Ettie Vitosky
Exhibition included Pierrette
Exhibition included Lion
Exhibition included The Tulip Girl
Exhibition included Energy
Exhibition included The Arabesque
Exhibition included Peasants
Exhibition included The Warrior
Exhibition included Chimere
Exhibition included Day Dreams
Exhibition included Group
Exhibition included Professor H. B. Dixon
Lent by the Victoria University of Manchester
Exhibition included Betty
Exhibition included Enid
Exhibition included Study of an Imp
Exhibition included Annie Besant DLitt
Exhibition included Head of a Pugilist
Exhibition included H. Clarence Whaite
Exhibition included George Milner
Exhibition included Modern Eve
Participants
Exhibitors included Pauline Aitken
'The Arabesque'
Exhibitors included Alice Lindley-Millican
'Energy'
Exhibitors included Christina Myers
'Peasants'
Exhibitors included Doris Kathleen Flinn
'The Warrior'
Exhibitors included E. Millicent Rhodes
'Chimere'
Exhibitors included Jessie M. Jardine
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Millard
'Professor H. B. Dixon'
Exhibitors included James Ashton Floyd
'Betty'
Exhibitors included Frank Lightowler
'Enid'
Exhibitors included Alan Brough
'Study of an Imp'
Exhibitors included John Cassidy
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Walter H. Doxey
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Athelstan Rusden
'Lion'
Exhibitors included Ida Nelson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included F. Newland Smith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included W.C. Wilson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Maurice Rottesman
Multiple works
Citing this record
'Manchester Art Gallery, Exhibition of Work by Manchester Artists, 1926', 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_1217427473, accessed 05 Jun 2023]
