The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eighty-Third (Summer Exhibition), 1951
Start Date: 5 May 1951
End Date: 26 August 1951
Type: Annual exhibition
Description: 120,512 paying visitors attended the exhibition. A total of 1,253 works were displayed. 375 works were shown by members of the Royal Academy, of which 34 were sculptures. Of the 878 works shown by non-members, 14 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'.
Citing this record
'The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Eighty-Third (Summer Exhibition), 1951', 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_1217950583, accessed 24 Sep 2023]
