The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Second (Summer Exhibition), 1940
Start Date: 6 May 1940
End Date: 10 August 1940
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 45,743 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,702 works were displayed. 282 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 20 were sculptures. Of the 1,420 works shown by non-members, 152 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
9 April 1940 - 20 April 1940
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1940' (1941), p. 26.
Selection committee members included Charles Thomas Wheeler
9 April 1940 - 20 April 1940
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1940' (1941), pp. 26-27.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Second (Summer Exhibition), 1940', 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_1217949935, accessed 03 Jun 2023]
