Reference code
RAA/SEC/17/8
Title
Papers on the Special Committee on the summer exhibition
Date
1937-1938
Level
File
Extent & medium
1 file
Previous reference codes
511 A-C
Historical Background
The Special Committee on the summer exhibition was appointed by Council on 13 July 1937 to discuss suggestions made at the General Assembly of 22 June 1937. The report of the Committee, dated 12 October 1937, was read at the General Assembly of 16 November 1937. The report wished to encourage the submission of works by "rising or notable artists who are not accustomed or inclined to submit their works to the Selecton Committee in the ordinary way, and to ask them to send in certain specified works of high merit which have been noted by a few members deputed for the purpose".
Content Description
Report of the Special Committee on the summer exhibition, 12 October 1937; memorandum of the presentation of the report at the General Assembly of 16 November 1937; memorandum of the response of the General Assembly to the report, 28 June 1938, including report of a reference by
A. K. Lawrence to "the hostile attitude of certain younger artists towards the Academy"; undated memorandum on the summer exhibition, and memorandum from the Secretary on the summer exhibition and candidates' list, October 1938.