The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundredth and Sixty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1937
Start Date: 3 May 1937
End Date: 7 August 1937
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 101,049 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,582 works were displayed. 312 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 34 were sculptures. Of the 1,270 works shown by non-members, 144 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 Richard Louis Garbe
6 April 1937 - 15 April 1937
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937' (1938), pp. 36-37.
Selection committee members included Alfred Frank Hardiman
6 April 1937 - 15 April 1937
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1937' (1938), pp. 36-37.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundredth and Sixty-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1937', 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_1217949741, accessed 30 Sep 2023]
