The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1946.
Start Date: 4 May 1946
End Date: 11 August 1946
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: A total of 197,457 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,298 works were displayed. 319 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 29 were sculptures. Of the 979 works shown by non-members, 131 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 James Arthur Woodford
9 April 1946 - 18 April 1946
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1946' (1947), p. 24.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1946.', 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_1217950215, accessed 22 Feb 2020]
