The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1927
Start Date: 2 May 1927
End Date: 6 August 1927
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 233,961 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,698 works were displayed. 265 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 35 were sculptures. Of the 1,433 works shown by non members, 259 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 George James Frampton
5 April 1927 - 15 April 1927
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1927' (1928), p. 31.
Exhibitors included Henry Poole
'The Little Apple'
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1927', 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_1217944518, accessed 03 Oct 2023]
