Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935
Start Date: November 1935
End Date: January 1936
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Twenty-third annual exhibition. Tickets one shilling. First prize - £50.
Policy: 'Objects, to foster a taste for Art in the neighbourhood by instituting an annual Exhibition, to facilitate the intercourse of those connected with Art, and to promote the practical and theoretical study of Art. Candidates must be proposed in writing by two members. Annual elections in Jan. by ballot; entrance fee £2 2s [...] There is an Art Union in connection. Commission on sales, 5 per cent. Agents - Edinburgh, T. Wilson; Glasgow, Lawrie & Sons; London, Dolman & Sons' (Year's Art, 1887, p. 110).
Display Arrangement: Sculpture dispersed throughout galleries.
Competition Details: Art Union Prize Drawing.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Study of a Child
Exhibition included The Lily Maid
Exhibition included Fish
1935
Exhibition included Madeline
1935
Exhibition included Carved Figure
1935
Exhibition included Malcolm
Exhibition included Mother and Child
Exhibition included Maxwell
1935
Exhibition included A Record Breaker
1935
Exhibition included Portrait
Exhibition included Diana
1935
Exhibition included Decoration
1935
Exhibition included The Slave
1935
Exhibition included Head
1935
Exhibition included Dancers
1935
Exhibition included Mr Robert Walker
1935
Exhibition included Study of a Peasant
1935
Exhibition included Panel
1935
Exhibition included J. Fenton Wyness, Esq.
1935
Exhibition included Miriam
1935
Exhibition included Seated Figure
1935
£45 5s.
Exhibition included Study of a Sheep
Exhibited posthumously. Lent by the late Mrs Farquharson.
Exhibition included Life
1935
Exhibition included Rain
1935
£16 16s.
Exhibition included Model of Garden Ornament
1935
Exhibition included Model of Memorial
1935
Exhibition included Italian Peasant
1935
£50
Exhibition included Sun Worship
1935
£10 10s.
Exhibition included Alms Dish for King's College Chapel
1935
Lent by Aberdeen University
Offered for sale Study of a Child
£52 10s.
Offered for sale The Lily Maid
£63
Offered for sale Fish
1935
£18
Offered for sale Carved Figure
1935
£350
Offered for sale Mother and Child
£47 5s.
Offered for sale A Record Breaker
1935
£21
Offered for sale Portrait
£10
Offered for sale Diana
1935
£25
Offered for sale Decoration
1935
£15
Offered for sale The Slave
1935
£55
Offered for sale Dancers
1935
£63
Offered for sale Study of a Peasant
1935
£52 10s.
Offered for sale Panel
1935
£10
Participants
Exhibitors included Percival (Percy) Herbert Portsmouth
'Study of a Peasant'
Exhibitors included (Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt
'Panel'
Exhibitors included Frederick W. George
'Miriam'
Exhibitors included Phoebe Gertrude Stabler
'Seated Figure'
Exhibitors included Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
'J. Fenton Wyness, Esq.'
Exhibitors included Leonard Stanford Merrifield
'The Slave'
Exhibitors included Mabel Renee Locke
'Rain'
Exhibitors included J. Fenton Wyness
'Model of Memorial'
Exhibitors included James Arthur Woodford
'Italian Peasant'
Exhibitors included John Macmillan
'Sun Worship'
Exhibitors included James Cromar Watt
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edgar Silver Frith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
'The Lily Maid'
Exhibitors included Edgar Allan Howes
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Maude N George
'Maxwell'
Exhibitors included Jean D Brown
'Head'
Exhibitors included Benjamin Clemens
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Charles James Pibworth
'Diana'
Exhibitors included John S Shiach
Multiple works
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Third Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1935
November 1935
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1935', 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_1242921953, accessed 24 Mar 2023]
