The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth (Summer Exhibition), 1943
Start Date: 1 May 1943
End Date: 7 August 1943
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 134,562 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,059 works were displayed. 275 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 14 were sculptures. Of the 784 works shown by non members, 107 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
6 April 1943 - 13 April 1943
Served as a member of the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1943' (1944), p. 22.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth (Summer Exhibition), 1943', 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_1217950078, accessed 28 Sep 2023]
