The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth, 1950

Start Date: 21 April 1950
End Date: 16 September 1950

Type: Annual exhibition

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

Exhibition includes paintings and sculpture by contemporary painters and sculpture by contemporary Italian sculptors. [Special thanks to Dr Gustavo Orlandini of the Cultural Relations Department in Rome.]

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 was exhibited in the Sculpture Hall.

Citing this record

'The Exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, The One-Hundred-and-Twenty-Fourth, 1950', 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_1206636016, accessed 23 Mar 2023]