The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventieth (Summer Exhibition), 1938
Start Date: 2 May 1938
End Date: 6 August 1938
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 122,691 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total pf 1,587 works were displayed. 310 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 33 were sculptures. Of the 1,277 works shown by non-members, 143 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 Gilbert Ledward
5 April 1938 - 14 April 1938
Served on the Selection Committee and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1938' (1939), p. 30.
Selection committee members included James Arthur Woodford
5 April 1938 - 14 April 1938
Served on the Selection Committee and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1938' (1939), p. 30.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventieth (Summer Exhibition), 1938', 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_1217949789, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
