The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1936
Start Date: 4 May 1936
End Date: 8 August 1936
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 151,104 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,635 works were displayed. 288 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 23 were sculptures. Of the 1,347 works shown by non-members, 110 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
Exhibitors included William McMillan
'Statue of J. M. W. Turner '
Selection committee members included William Reid Dick
7 April 1936 - 18 April 1936
Dick served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), p. 43.
Selection committee members included Ernest George Gillick
7 April 1936 - 18 April 1936
He served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), p. 43.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1936', 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_1217949696, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
