The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eighty-First (Summer Exhibition), 1949.
Start Date: 30 April 1949
End Date: 7 August 1949
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 164,561 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,379 works were displayed. 295 works were exhibited by members of the Royal Academy, of which 18 were sculptures. Of the 1,084 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
Selection committee members included Gilbert Ledward
29 March 1949 - 9 April 1949
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement of sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1949' (1950), p. 29.
Selection committee members included Maurice Lambert
29 March 1949 - 9 April 1949
Served on the Selection Committee, and was responsible for the arrangement sculpture. See Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1949' (1950), p. 29.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eighty-First (Summer Exhibition), 1949.', 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_1217950489, accessed 29 May 2023]
