The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939
Start Date: 28 October 1939
End Date: 20 January 1939
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Change of venue from the McLellan Galleries to the Kelvingrove Art Galleries.
Policy: Abridged from the Notice to Purchasers:
1. Copyright of work to remain with artist unless otherwise stated at time of purchase.
2. One quarter of price of work to be paid at time of purchase.
3. Purchasers must intimate sale to the Acting Secretary, not the artist.
4. The absence of price does not imply that the work is NOT for sale.
5. Artists may exhibit two works of art
only unless by special permission of the Council.
6. No works previously exhibited in Glasgow allowed to be shown.
Display Arrangement: Sculpture displayed in the Sculpture Hall alongside tapestries and architectural drawings.
Competition Details: The Art Union of the Institute of Fine Arts offers prizes to members from the exhibition.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Kvinde
in bronze for £80
Exhibition included Eve
Exhibition included Singing Negress
£400
Exhibition included Sir Claud Russell KCMG
Exhibition included Persephone
in bronze for £450
Exhibition included Kid, Come Along!
£15
in bronze for £50
Exhibition included Mallard on the Bank of the River
£30
Exhibition included Sheep Dog Penning Sheep, Newton Stewart Sheep Dog Trials
£30
Exhibition included New Government Buildings, Edinburgh - Royal Coat of Arms over Main Entrance
Exhibition included Little Old Lady
£79
bronze version
Exhibition included The Late Jimmie Guthrie
Exhibition included Betty
Exhibition included His Majesty King George VI
in bronze for £200; in marble for £325
Exhibition included Pope Pius XII
£250
in bronze for £250; in marble for £300
Exhibition included Baby Panda
£10
Exhibition included Cyrene
£400
Exhibition included The Call of Spring
£250
Exhibition included John Craig, Esq., CBE DL
lent by John Craig, Esq.
Exhibition included St George - Equestrian Statuette
£42
Exhibition included Head
1939
£157
Exhibition included Madonna of the Rose
1939
£100
Exhibition included Calf
1939
£75
Exhibition included Michael
1939
Exhibition included Head of a Child
1939
£20
Exhibition included Portrait
1939
£5
Exhibition included Music
1939
Exhibition included Anne
1939
Exhibition included Bull
1939
£25
Exhibition included Atlantis
1939
£71
Exhibition included Mongoose
Exhibition included The Apostle
1939
Exhibition included I.A.M MacLennan, Esq.
1939
Exhibition included Anne
Offered for sale Mongoose
£10
Offered for sale The Apostle
1939
£25
Participants
Exhibitors included Edward Charles N. Folkard
'St George - Equestrian Statuette'
Exhibitors included Peter Wylie Davidson
'Baby Panda '
Exhibitors included William James Bloye
'Persephone'
Exhibitors included James Barr
'Kvinde'
Exhibitors included Thomas Symington Halliday
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Mewburn Crook
'His Majesty King George VI'
Exhibitors included William A Hogg
'I.A.M MacLennan, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Douglas Robertson Bisset
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Geoffrey Hampton Deeley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mark Wilfred Batten
'Singing Negress'
Exhibitors included Ivy H. Gardner
'Portrait'
Exhibitors included Jacob Epstein
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Arthur Glover
'Bull'
Exhibitors included Allan Clark
'Betty'
Exhibitors included Charles Leighfield Jonah Doman
'The Call of Spring'
Exhibitors included Dugald Hyndman Gillespie
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas John Clapperton
'The Late Jimmie Guthrie'
Exhibitors included (Joseph) Hermon Cawthra
'Little Old Lady'
Exhibitors included Phyllis Mary Bone
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Everett Gray
'Atlantis'
Exhibitors included Richard Louis Garbe
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alexander Carrick
Multiple works
Citing this record
'The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts Seventy-Eighth Annual Exhibition, 1939', 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_1220974721, accessed 08 Jun 2023]
