The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth (Summer Exhibition), 1942.
Start Date: 4 May 1942
End Date: 8 August 1942
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 67,391 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 845 works were displayed. 302 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 18 were sculptures. Of the 543 works shown by non-members, 84 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 Reid Dick
8 April 1942 - 15 April 1942
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1942', (1943), p. 24.
Selection committee members included Frank Owen Dobson
8 April 1942 - 15 April 1942
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1942', (1943), p. 24.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Fourth (Summer Exhibition), 1942.', 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_1217950022, accessed 04 Oct 2023]
