A group of people appointed to make decisions regarding the hanging of pictures in an exhibition.
he served on the hanging committee
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He said the painting, "would have been rejected by any hanging committee of the Royal Academy up to 1940".
He was appointed to the hanging committee for the annual exhibition at the National Academy—an honor that clearly reflected the esteem of his peers.
He was a member of the hanging committee and one of the adjudicators in the art section at the Guild's exhibitions for many years.
In 1783, he argued with the exhibition Hanging Committee over the display of his extraordinary composite portrait of fifteen oval heads of George, his queen, and their offspring.
She served on the selection and hanging committee, and was later involved in a row over a portrait of T. S. Eliot by P. Wyndham Lewis, which the academy had rejected.
Two of his paintings were rejected by the hanging committee of the summer exhibition.
He is taking a role on this year's hanging committee.
He is co-chair of the Hanging Committee of this year's Summer Exhibition, and guest edits our features section this issue
Her painting Ophelia was purchased by the Liverpool corporation in 1890 and she was the first woman to serve on the hanging committee of that city's important autumn exhibition.
The hanging committee have selected from the 12,000 entries received.