The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1947
Start Date: 3 May 1947
End Date: 10 August 1947
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 153,260 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,320 works were displayed. Of the 310 works exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, 21 were sculptures. 1,010 works were shown by non-members, of which 149 were sculptures.
Policy: Source contains 'Notice To Exhibitors' which outlines rules for submission, requirements for frames, etc. For exammple: 'No works which have been already publicly exhibited'.
Participants
Selection committee members included Charles Thomas Wheeler
7 April 1947 - 14 April 1947
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1947' (1948), p. 23.
Selection committee members included Frank Owen Dobson
7 April 1947 - 14 April 1947
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1947' (1948), p. 23.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Seventy-Ninth (Summer Exhibition), 1947', 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_1217950302, accessed 02 Jun 2023]
