The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Third (Summer Exhibition), 1941
Start Date: 5 May 1941
End Date: 9 August 1941
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 50,779 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,079 works were displayed. 215 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 16 were sculptures. Of the 864 works shown by non-members, 112 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 Charles Thomas Wheeler
9 April 1941 - 18 April 1941
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1941' (1942), p. 23.
Selection committee members included Alfred Frank Hardiman
9 April 1941 - 18 April 1941
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1941' (1942), p. 23.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Third (Summer Exhibition), 1941', 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_1217949978, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
