Festival of Britain: Festival of Industry (Kelvingrove, Glasgow), 1951
Start Date: May 1951
Type: Exhibition
Description: The Festival of Britain was a national exhibition which took place on the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition in venues throughout Britain (Scotland: Glasgow, Inverness, Perth).
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas W. Whalen
Monumental reliefs on the the theme of coal, in collaboration with the architect Basil Spence for the Festival of Industry, Kelvingrove, Glasgow.
Sources
Scottish Sculpture Archive Virtue and Vision: Sculpture and Scotland 1540-1990
1990
Thomas Whalen file
Citing this record
'Festival of Britain: Festival of Industry (Kelvingrove, Glasgow), 1951', 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_1241706403, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
