The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth (Summer Exhibition), 1934
Start Date: 7 May 1934
End Date: 11 August 1934
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 129,595 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,643 works were displayed. 315 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 30 of which were sculptures. Of the 1,328 works shown by non-members, 131 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
Selection committee members included William McMillan
10 April 1934 - 19 April 1934
President of the Selection Committee, and responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1934' (1935), p. 35.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Sixth (Summer Exhibition), 1934', 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_1217949477, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
