Statue of J. M. W. Turner
Created by William McMillan
Date: 1936
Usually date of exhibition rather than production
Object class: sculpture
Object type: statue
Material: processed and vegetal - plaster
Technique: modelled
Description: The Royal Academy, 'Annual Report, 1936' (1937), notes that 'the Council inspected the full-size model of the statue of J. M. W. Turner, R.A., in Mr. McMillan's studio in February, and having suggested a few minor alterations they approved the work for completion. The plaster model was exhibited in the Summer Exhibition (p. 33).
Exhibitions and other Events
Created for Leighton Fund (Royal Academy of Arts), 1896-1951
1936 (Presumed)
The fund was used to commission the work.
Exhibited at The Exhibition of the Royal Academy of Arts, The One Hundred and Sixty-Eighth (Summer Exhibition), 1936
1936
Citing this record
'Statue of J. M. W. Turner', 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/object.php?id=msib4_1265114078, accessed 20 Jan 2021]
