Ken Howard The Royal Academy Of Arts Select Committee Painting Postcard

RA2  This is a beautiful undated but modern published official postcard from Londons Royal Academy Of Arts for this historic painting by Ken Howard ofThe Royal Academy Of Arts Select Committee from 1985 with artist details, dates, dimensions etc & Royal Academy Of Arts logo on reverse being the official souvenir from when exhibited unused and mint.

Ken Howard's sketch of the 1985 Selection Committee mirrors C.W. Cope's 'The Council of the Royal Academy Selecting Pictures for the Exhibition', 1875. It deftly illustrates how the process of selecting works for the RA's Summer Exhibition remains remarkably unchanged. Howard wrote of this perennially challenging task that he and fellow selectors, including Roger de Grey PRA and Jean Cooke RA, were 'assailed by cats, dogs and owls' but 'laboured hard and long to glean the best from more than 15,000 workspainfully conscious of the love and effort that have gone into all of them'.