Council minutes

RA Collection: Archive

Reference code

RAA/PC/1/45

Title

Council minutes

Date

09 Jan 1968 - 03 Dec 1968

Level

Item

Extent & medium

1 file, 46 pieces

Previous reference codes

401 B

Content Description

Minutes of meetings of the Council, including the following selected entries: record of events leading up to the resignation of Humphrey Brooke as Secretary, 21 May - 16 July 1968; the decision to add the office of Professor of the History of Art to the list of honorary members, with warm approval for the name of Sir Kenneth Clark in connection with the appointment, 16 July 1968; and acknowledgment of the resignation of Gilbert Spencer, over his allegation that his picture entitled ‘Mrs Christopher Gardner’, which had been in the summer exhibition of 1962, could not be found when he came to collect it in 1968, “five years after the Royal Academy’s responsibilities for it had ceased”, 29 October 1968.