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1949

R.B.A. Galleries

25th March - 9th April

496 Entries

Paintings, Drawings, Etchings, Engravings, Lithograph & Sculpture

Selection Committee: 

John Buckland-Wright, John Copley, Edwin La Dell, John Farleigh, F.E. McWilliam, John Minton, Ceri Richards, Willi Soukop, Ruskin Spear, Leon Underwood, Keith Vaughan, Carel Weight

Student Committee:

Ivor Fox, R. D. Archer, C. W. L. Smith, V. Keeling, E. Falconer, M. Davies

Advisory Council:

Carel Weight, R. R. Tomlinson, Harold Workman

Phase 1: 1949 - 1970

Phase 2: 1974 - 1986

Phase 3: 1989 - present

1952

R.B.A. Galleries

14th - 30th January

561 Works

Oils, Sculptures, Watercolours, Lithographs etc.

Selection Committee: 

David Bomberg, John Buckland-Wright, Reg Butler, Prunella Clough, Hewin Crawford, Eric Fraser, Peter Greenham, Colin Hayes, Hesketh Hubbard, Henry Moore, Ceri Richards, Ruskin Spear

Student Committee:

Ralph Allen, Bridget Allen, Donald Richmond, Charles De Vic-Carey, Roger Bennett, Keith Clements, Aubrey Jensen, Ian Strachan, Peter Garrard

Advisory Council:

Hesketh Hubbard, Carel Weight, Reginald Murton

1958

R.B.A. Galleries

19th February - 10th March

378 Works

Paintings, Sculpture, Stained Glass, Drawings, Prints & Collages

Selection Committee:

Alan Davie, Donald Hamilton Fraser, Victor Pasmore, David Slyvester, Keith Vaughan, Carel Weight, Reg Butler, William Turnball, Sidney King, Eduardo Paolozzi

Student Committee

Kenneth Baynes, Alison Glover, Robin Plummer, Michael Chalk, Michael Davies, Malcolm Ross-MacDonald, David Miller

1959

R.B.A. Galleries

20th February - 14th March

545 Works

Paintings, Stained Glass, Sculpture

Selection Committee: 

Victor Pasmore, Terry Frost, Andrew Forge, Ceri Richards, William Turnbull, Kenneth Armitage, Lynn Chadwick, Geoffrey Clarke

Student Committee:

Dorothy Mead, Mario Dubsky, Michael Hale, John Kaine, Roy Lewis, Joao Cutilerio, Robin Mayor, Peter Pearce, Margaret Thorpe

Kasmin discusses first meeting David Hockney after viewing his work in the 1961 Young Contemporaries, and Gillian Ayres (1930 - 2018) recalls the difficulty he had in being able to show and sell Hockney's work in Malborough Gallery, where Kasmin worked at the time. 

See more in the British Library collection:

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/kasmin-on-meeting-david-hockney

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/gillian-ayres-on-kasmin-and-on-joining-kasmin-gallery

1963

F.B.A. Galleries

6th - 23rd February

215 Works

Painting, Sculpture, Graphic

Selection Committee:

Painting - David Thompson, Harold Cohen, Hassell Smith, Dick Smith

Sculpture - George Fullard, Hubert Dallwood, William Tucker

Graphic - Alan Davie, George Fullard, David Thompson

Executive Committee: 

Trevor Haliday, John Pearson, Stroud Cornock, Ronald Smith, Neville Boden, Waldemar D'Orey, Laurie Baldwyn, Veronica Dunleavy

Art Prize Winners 1967

The Arts Council

Kenneth Kitchen, R.C.A. "Scammel" £50

J. Lowe, Royal Academy, "Nineteen" £10

Tobacco Company Awards

Michael Harrison, Central, "Credits 1" £37/10

A. Amies, Slade, "Sea Drawings" £37/10

1967

Tate

26th January - 19 February

74 Works

Selection Committee:

Richard Hamilton, Justin Knowles, Bruce Lacey, Bryan Robertson, John Russell, Leslie Wadington

Executive [Student] Committee:

Gus Cummins, Keith Barnsley, Martin Ward, Ian Danskin

1968

Royal Institute Galleries

30th January - 27th February

77 Works*

Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Darkened Room

Executive Committee:

Alex Thomson, Alan Deboo, Colin Figue, David Skelton, Janet Spiller

Film Committee:

Jeremy Marre, Martin Hayden

Selection Committee:

John Hoyland, Bill Tucker, Anthony Benjamin, Colin Self, John Walker, Andrew Forge

 * plus moving image reel

1969

R.B.A. Galleries

10th April - 1st May

72 Works

Sculpture, Paintings, Prints & Drawings, Lights

Selection Committee:

See Student Committee

Student Committee:

Allen Nickless, Chris Jones, Brendan Neiland, Geoffrey MacEwan, Derek James, Harry Biggin, Dave Tremlett, Bill Lumsden, Gay Hutt