Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 1939
Start Date: 6 January 1939
End Date: 11 March 1939 (Presumed)
Type: Exhibition
Description: William LLewellyn (Past President of the RA in 1939) presented the idea of 'a comprehensive exhibit of Scottish Art in London' to the Council of the Royal Academy, who invited Stanley Cursiter, Director of the National Gallery of Scotland, and Sir Jamescaw, the previous Director, to prepare a scheme.
The exhibit was created in partnership with the Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland and private owners.
The exhibition comprised mostly of paintings and sculpture, with some examples of furniture, architecture, silver, pewter, textiles, books, drawings and prints.
Policy: To admire and study 'the achievements of Scottish Artists through the last three centuries.'
Display Arrangement: Sculpture in Central Hall and dispersed throughout.
Exhibits
Exhibition included The Marquess of Montrose
lent by the Duke of Montrose
Exhibition included Thomas Carlyle
W. G. Patterson collection; presented by him to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1887.
Exhibition included Ehrna
Exhibition included John Phillip, RA
lent by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition included John Pettie, RA
Lent by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
Exhibition included Atalanta
Lent by the Corporation Art Gallery, Aberdeen.
Exhibition included Dr. Frew
lent by Glasgow Art Club
Exhibition included Hypnos
lent by Miss Pittendrigh Macgillivray
Exhibition included Portrait of an Artist
Exhibition included Sir Robert Rowand Anderson, LLD
lent by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition included A Lamb
Lent by Archibald Stevenson, Esq.
Exhibition included Sir George Reid, PRSA
Exhibition included Sam Bough, RSA
Exhibition included Baby (The Artist's Daughter)
Lent by the National Gallery of Scotland, RSA Collection; presented by the RSA to NGS, 1910.
Exhibition included Peter Wishart, ARSA
Exhibition included John Geddie
Lent by the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, RSA Diploma Coll. Also exhibited RSA, 1921, according to this source.
Exhibition included George Ogilvy Reid, RSA
lent by Miss Ogilvy Reid, G. O. Reid collection
Exhibition included E. A. Hornel
lent by Miss Hornel, E. A. Hornel collection
Exhibition included Sir John Watson Gordon, PRSA, RA
lent by the Royal Scottish Academy
Exhibition included Thomas De Quincy
lent by the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
Exhibition included Robert Herdman, RSA
lent by the Royal Scottish Academy
Exhibition included John Knox
Lent by St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh.
Exhibition included A Kid
Exhibition included The Rev. Thomas Guthrie
Exhibited posthumously
Participants
Exhibitors included Thomas Stuart Burnett
'Baby (The Artist's Daughter)'
Exhibitors included Henry (Harry) Snell Gamley
Multiple works
Exhibitors included David Watson Stevenson
'George Ogilvy Reid, RSA'
Exhibitors included Patric Park
'Sir John Watson Gordon, PRSA, RA'
Exhibitors included William Grant Stevenson
Multiple works
Exhibitors included William Birnie Rhind
Multiple works
Exhibitors included John Hutchison
Exhibitors included James Pittendrigh MacGillivray
p. 104 (237)
Exhibitors included George Anderson Lawson
Exhibitors included William Brodie
p. 101
Exhibitors included John Robert Steell
Work shown posthumously, p. 101 (226)
Citing this record
'Royal Academy of Art: The Exhibition of Scottish Art, 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=msib7_1215437124, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
