The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Forty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1917
Start Date: 7 May 1917
End Date: 11 August 1917
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 114,323 people visited the exhibition. 1,691 works were displayed. Of the 252 works exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 36 were sculptures. 1,432 works were shown by non members, of which 174 were sculptures.
Policy: Source contains 'Notice To Exhibitors' which outlines rules for submission, requirements for frames, etc. For example: 'No works which have been already publicly exhibited'.
Participants
Exhibition committee member William Goscombe John
11 April 1917 - 23 April 1917
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1917' (1918), p. 27.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Forty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1917', 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_1217943592, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
