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George Bellows, 'Stag at Sharkey’s' (detail), 1909. Oil on canvas, 92 x 112.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Hinman B. Hurlbut Collection. Photo © The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Sir Hugh Casson PRA, 'Elephant and Rhinoceros Pavilion, London Zoo'(detail), c.1971. © Royal Academy of Arts, London.
Sydney Lee, 'The Sleeping Square' (detail), 1928. Aquatint, mezzotint and roulette. Private collection. © estate of the artist.
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
Summer Exhibition 2007
Three huge metal dinosaurs by Jake and Dinos Chapman have been installed in the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard for this year’s Summer Exhibition. This is the first time that the Chapmans, key members of the so-called YBA (Young British Artists) generation, have created a large-scale outdoor sculpture.
Jake and Dinos Chapman, The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth But Not the Mineral Rights, 2007. Corten steel (detail)
Entitled The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth, but not the Mineral Rights, it continues the theme of their earlier work, Hell Sixty Five Million Years BC (2004-5), in which models of prehistoric creatures also featured.
Measuring more than eight metres in length and towering up to seven metres high, the three corten steel dinosaurs are the latest installation in the RA’s programme of Sculpture in the Courtyard, and follow on from Anselm Kiefer’s Jericho, Rodin's Gates of Hell and Damien Hirst's Virgin Mother.
Read more about this year's Summer Exhibition...
RA Podcast
Lawrence Pollard investigates Impressionists by the Sea and Jake and Dinos Chapman.
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