General Assembly minutes, vol. 10

1 vol., 407pp.

Volume of minutes of the General Assembly, including the following selected entries: confirmation of resolution that no work not executed within the preceding ten years was to be admissible for the summer exhibition, 5 December 1914; confirmation of resolution that retired members were no longer entitled to a pension as a matter of right, 24 February 1916; rejection, by nineteen votes to two, of a resolution of Council that members be allowed to submit a maximum of four works to the summer exhibition [instead of six] and non-members two [instead of three], 8 November 1916; confirmation of resolution to create a minimum of six sculptor Academicians and five sculptor Associates and four architect Academicians and four architect Associates, 14 March 1917; rejection of a resolution to enlarge the class of engravers so as to include draughtsmen, the proposal failing to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority, 26 April 1917; the presentation of Reginald Blomfield’s memorandum entitled ‘Considerations on the policy and position of the Royal Academy’, including the resolution which resulted in the creation of a class of Senior Academicians and Associates at the age of seventy-five, 11 June - 26 November 1918; Council resolution recommending that artists not send posthumous portraits in oils to the summer exhibition not confirmed by General Assembly, 20 June 1919; copy of letter from Sir T. G. Jackson (who was unable to attend the meeting because of ill health), containing his case against Sir David Murray’s motion that Selection Committee members should only be allowed to select works for exhibition within that branch of art (painting, sculpture, architecture and engraving), from which they were themselves drawn , 6 December 1920; the rejection of a Council resolution that members be restricted to four submissions to the summer exhibition, 21 April 1922; the carrying of a Council resolution to award diplomas to honorary members, 25 November 1926 and the resolution confirmed, 24 February 1927; confirmation of resolution by which candidates for Associateship were to require (in the case of painters) a minimum of five nominations, three of whom were to be painter members; and sculptors, architects and engravers three nominations, two of whom were to be drawn from those branches, 10 November 1931; and confirmation of resolution that the President should have the power to attend all meetings of Royal Academy committees, 10 November 1931.