The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fifth, 1921

Start Date: 23 April 1921
End Date: 20 August 1921

Type: Annual exhibition

Description: Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827.

Works for sale (francs included).

Policy: To encourage the practice of the Fine Arts in Scotland by showing to the public representative collections of works mainly from Scottish artists of the time.

Works shown at the RSA Annual Exhibition should be by living artists only, although a few works in reality were exhibited posthumously. Most works were submitted, although a number were 'invited' (RSA Dictionary, vol. 1, p. xv).

In addition to the Annual Exhibitions the Academy occasionally places on view, at another season of the year, memorial collections of the works of eminent artists recently deceased.

For further information on the history of the RSA see Frank Rinder & W. D. McKay, The Royal Scottish Academy, 1826-1916 (Glasgow: University Press, 1917) and Esme Gordon, The Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture & Architecture 1826-1976 (Edinburgh: Charles Skilton, 1976).

See also http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/menu_page.asp/.

Display Arrangement: All sculpture displayed in the Sculpture Hall.

Competition Details: The Guthrie Award: 'The president and the Committee of Arrangement for the year will award a prize of about Fifty pounds to the best work shown at the Exhibition by a young Scottish Artist. The work selected may be from the three branches of art [...]'

Citing this record

'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The Ninety-Fifth, 1921', 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=msib6_1206634726, accessed 21 Mar 2023]