Aberdeen Artists' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1889
Start Date: December 1889
End Date: February 1890
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: Fifth annual exhibition. 2 out of 12 works for sale.
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: 'Statuary' displayed in Lower Gallery.
Exhibits
Exhibition included A Mud Lark
£5 5s.
Exhibition included Cricketer
Owned by J. Coutts Mitchie, Esq.
Exhibition included Camel
1890
£26 5s.
Exhibition included The late Principal Pirie
1890
Exhibition included Canon Barker
1890
Exhibition included Lottie, Daughter of James Murray, Esq., Carden Place
1890
Exhibition included Sir Andrew Clark, Bart, MD, LLD
1890
Exhibition included Ex-Lord Provost Henderson
1890
Exhibition included The Wounded Amazon
1889
Exhibition included Mars
1889
Exhibition included Orestes seized by the Furies after the Murder of Clytemnestra
displayed on staircase
Exhibition included The late William Hall, Esq., Ship Builder
displayed on staircase
Participants
Exhibitors included David Scott
'Orestes seized by the Furies after the Murder of Clytemnestra'
Exhibitors included Sebatina de Anglis
'Mars'
Exhibitors included Katherine Anne Fraser-Tytler
'A Mud Lark'
Exhibitors included Henry Bain-Smith or Bainsmith
Multiple works
Exhibitors included Edward Onslow Ford
'Camel'
Exhibitors included J.H Morrison
'Cricketer'
Sources
Aberdeen Artists' Society. Fifth Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1890
December 1890
p. 26
Citing this record
'Aberdeen Artists\' Society Exhibition of Works of Modern Artists, 1889', 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_1244816528, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
