The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-First (Summer Exhibition), 1939
Start Date: 1 May 1939
End Date: 7 August 1939
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 96,276 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,315 works were displayed. 321 works were shown by members of the Royal Academy, of which 25 were sculptures. Of the 994 works exhibited by non-members, 116 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'.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-First (Summer Exhibition), 1939', 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_1217949884, accessed 23 Sep 2023]
