Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937
Start Date: November 1937
End Date: January 1938
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Twenty-fourth 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. Rooms I-V.
Competition Details: Art Union Prize Drawing.
Exhibits
Exhibition included Fisherman
1937
Exhibition included Diana
1937
£105
Exhibition included A Scotch Lassie
1937
Exhibition included The Vortex
1937
£5 5s.
Exhibition included Scott
1937
£15 15s.
Exhibition included Anticipation
1937
£16
Exhibition included Pirate
1937
£15 15s.
Exhibition included Head
1937
bronze £31 10s.
Exhibition included Admiral of the Fleet - Sir Edward Seymour, OM, GCB, GCVO
1937
Exhibition included Ivory Carving
1937
£2 2s.
Exhibition included The Dolmetsche Clarsache
1937
£10
Exhibition included Ivory Carving
1937
£10 10s.
Exhibition included William Smith, Esq.
1937
Exhibition included Lead Figure for Fountain
1937
£37 10s.
Exhibition included Hugh McDiarmid
1937
Exhibition included The Frog Princess
1937
£36 15s.
Exhibition included Return of the Madonna
1937
Exhibition included Decorative Panel in Glass
1937
£5 10s.
Exhibition included Cupid
1937
£65
Exhibition included Judas
1937
£127 10s.
Exhibition included The Musician
1937
£85
Exhibition included Untitled
1937
Exhibition included The Rt Hon. Viscount Samuel, GC, GBE
1937
Exhibition included Youth
1937
£55
Exhibition included Sinister Head
1937
£105
Exhibition included Eurydice
1937
Exhibition included Peter Pan
1937
£105
Exhibition included Felicity
£50
Exhibition included Atalanta Tying Her Sandal
1937
£52 10s.
Exhibition included Mackenzie Murdoch
1937
Exhibition included Kiddie
1937
Exhibition included Green and Gold
Participants
Exhibitors included Frederick W. George
'Return of the Madonna '
Exhibitors included William A. Lamb
'Fisherman'
Exhibitors included Charles James Pibworth
'Atalanta Tying Her Sandal'
Exhibitors included Gilbert William Bayes
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Alexander Carrick
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edgar Allan Howes
'Decorative Panel in Glass'
Exhibitors included Leonard Stanford Merrifield
'Cupid'
Exhibitors included (Arthur) Barney Seale
'Judas'
Exhibitors included Tom Taylor
'The Musician'
Exhibitors included Frank Owen Dobson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included George H J Day
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Benjamin Clemens
'Eurydice'
Exhibitors included Yule Hayes
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Mabel Donaldson
'The Vortex'
Exhibitors included William Inglis Day
'Scott'
Exhibitors included Mabel Renee Locke
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Thomas Bayliss Huxley- Jones
Multiple works
Exhibitors included David J Ritchie
'Ivory Carving'
Exhibitors included (Rose) Gwynneth Cobden Holt
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Nora Mary Gordon
1937 (Circa)
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Twenty-Fourth Exhibition of Works of Modern Masters, 1937
November 1937
pp. 68-69
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1937', 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_1244216504, accessed 21 Mar 2023]
