The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eightieth (Summer Exhibition), 1948
Start Date: 1 May 1948
End Date: 8 August 1948
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 237,308 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,427 works were displayed. 324 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 30 were sculptures. Of the 1,103 works shown by non-members, 177 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 Richard Louis Garbe
6 April 1948 - 14 April 1948
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1948' (1949), p. 20.
Selection committee members included Arnold Machin
6 April 1948 - 14 April 1948
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1948' (1949), p. 20.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eightieth (Summer Exhibition), 1948', 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_1217950407, accessed 10 Jun 2023]
