The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth (Summer Exhibition), 1944
Start Date: 29 April 1944
End Date: 7 August 1944
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 145,900 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,285 works were displayed. 336 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 25 of which were sculptures. Of the 949 works shown by non members, 123 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
Exhibition committee member James Arthur Woodford
4 April 1944 - 14 April 1944
Selection committee members included William McMillan
4 April 1944 - 14 April 1944
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1944' (1945), pp. 21-22.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Sixth (Summer Exhibition), 1944', 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_1217950121, accessed 29 May 2023]
