The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Seventh (Summer Exhibition), 1945
Start Date: 5 May 1945
End Date: 12 August 1945
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 200,287 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,390 works were displayed. 368 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 32 of which were sculptures. Of the 1,022 works shown by non-members, 116 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 Alfred Frank Hardiman
10 April 1945 - 21 April 1945
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1945' (1946), p. 22.
Selection committee members included Maurice Lambert
10 April 1945 - 21 April 1945
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1945' (1946), p. 22.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Seventh (Summer Exhibition), 1945', 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_1217950161, accessed 09 Jun 2023]
