The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-First (Summer Exhibition), 1929
Start Date: 6 May 1929
End Date: 10 August 1929
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 137,070 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,590 works were displayed. 306 works were shown by members of the Royal Academy, of which 36 were sculptures. Of the 1,284 works exhibited by non members, 168 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 Henry Alfred Pegram
9 April 1929 - 19 April 1929
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1929' (1930), p. 27.
Exhibition committee member William McMillan
9 April 1929 - 19 April 1929
Responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1929' (1930), p. 27.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-First (Summer Exhibition), 1929', 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_1217944670, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
