The Young Contemporaries Exhibition - Sir John Rothebstein Director and Keeper of the Tate Gallery, who opened the Exhibition, looking at the sculptor piece of the show "Man Shearing a Sheep" by Ralph Brown. The Young Contemporaries Exhibition of Coronation Year was opened at the R.B.A. Gallreies in Suffolk Street, London, S.W. I., by Sir John Rotherntein today. The first exhibition decided to make it an annual event - it is now second only to the Royal Academy in size and attendance. This year as, an extra incantive, Messrs. Colman, Prentis & Varley are to award a prize of ?50 for the most outstanding work in the show. February 24, 1953. (Photo by Fox Photos).