City Art Galleries (Birmingham)
Foundation date: 1912 (Presumed)
Active: 1912 -
Function: Art gallery
Policy:
Benefits: eligible for exhibition
Composition: professional artists
Funding types: annual subscription
Exhibitions, Courses, Meetings and other Events
Hosted The Eighty-Sixth Autumn Exhibition (Royal Birmingham Society of Artists), 1912-1913
Institutional and Business Connections
Collaborated with Birmingham Municipal School of Art, Central School
1912 - 1914 (Presumed)
Annual exhibitions of students works held here in February. Venue replaced former annual exhibitions at the RBSA.
From 1914 the listings in the Art School Programmes did not specifically identify the City Galleries as the venue for the exhibition, but it might be assumed that they continued to be held here. However, there was no mention of an exhibition of students' works from 1916.
Successor to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
1924
Citing this record
'City Art Galleries (Birmingham)', 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/organization.php?id=msib4_1207055774, accessed 23 Mar 2023]
