The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Fourteenth, 1940
Start Date: 27 April 1940
End Date: 27 July 1940
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Annual Exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy have been held in the spring of each year since 1827.
'This year owing to the war the scope of the exhibition is somewhat limited. As a rule an important section of the Exhibition is the invited work, drawn from various sources at home and abroad. On this occasion there is no loan work owing to the difficulty of transport and insurance. The members have allowed four works each, of which one may be retrospective.'
Works for sale.
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: Sculpture displayed in the Sculpture Hall.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Pax vobiscum
1940
Exhibition included Yellow tulips
One other work exhibited in this year, no medium given, this and other work may be assumed to be a painting or drawing.
Exhibition included The kiss
1940
Exhibition included Helen
lent by Dr S. Barclay
Exhibition included Mutha Giraffeneck, Paduang woman, Shan States
1940
Exhibition included Chimpanzee and Her Baby
1940
Exhibition included Ascension
1940
Exhibition included Ripple
1940
Exhibition included Black vestal
1940
Exhibition included Tiger running
1940
Exhibition included Bounding away - roe deer
1940
Exhibition included Clydesdale foal - one day old
1940
Exhibition included Mallard on the Bank of the River
1940
Exhibition included St Madeleine Sophie
1940
Exhibition included Half-size working model to be executed in stone on the Amicable Building Society's new premises, Gordon Street, Glasgow
1940
Exhibition included Felicity
1940
Exhibition included Ad astra
1940
Exhibition included Phoebe
1940
Exhibition included Portrait study
1940
Exhibition included The source
1940
Exhibition included Sylvia Didier
1940
Exhibition included Mood indigo
1940
Exhibition included Iain
1940
Exhibition included Allen
1940
Exhibition included Andrew Willox Esq.
1940
Exhibition included Vera
1940
Exhibition included Before dawn the third day
1940
Participants
Exhibitors included Alexander Carrick
'Felicity'
Exhibitors included Mary Cassie
'Ad astra'
Exhibitors included Ivy H. Gardner
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gertrude Knoblock
'Before dawn the third day'
Exhibitors included Norman John Forrest
'Helen'
Exhibitors included James Harvey Clark
'The source'
Exhibitors included Thomas Jones Burns
'St Madeleine Sophie'
Exhibitors included Marianne Davidson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Phyllis Mary Bone
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Helen Lee Barclay
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Ethel Gresley Ball
'Chimpanzee and Her Baby'
Exhibitors included George Raymond Duce
'Pax vobiscum'
Exhibitors included Hazel Ruthven Armour
'Mutha Giraffeneck, Paduang woman, Shan States'
Exhibitors included Sally D. Alexander
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Fourteenth, 1940', 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_1206635532, accessed 01 Oct 2023]