Guide to the Collections held by the Tate Gallery Library Archive (as filmed by the AJCP), 17 June 1912-May 1980

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Summary

Collection number:

M2611

Creator:

Tate Gallery

Extent:

24 items

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.

Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.

Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for reference.

Background

Content Summary:

Letters 1953-56 of Grace English regarding the loan of a colour drawing by Ethel Walker for the exhibition British Watercolours 1914-53.

Scrapbook c.1928-31 containing letters, telegram and postcards from the artist Frances Hodgkins to Arthur Howell and L. Harmston.

Records 1951-65 of Artists International Association referring to exhibits by Rachel Roxburgh, Phyllis Waterhouse and James Cant.

Correspondence 1947-56 of Mrs Margaret Nash referring to the loan of Paul Nash's work for an exhibition British Watercolours 1914-53 to tour Australia and New Zealand and the purchase of Nash's paintings by the Felton Bequest Trust for the National Gallery of Victoria.

Letters 1938-44? of Henry Lamb to Arnold Palmer concerning his paintings.

Correspondence and autograph notes 1936-42 of John Rothenstein concerning Charles Conder. Correspondents include William Moore and Sir Arthur Streeton.

Biographical / Historical:

In 1892 a site at Millbank, Pimlico, beside the River Thames, was chosen for the new National Gallery of British Art, which would be under the directorship of the National Gallery. The Gallery was opened in 1897. In 1908 the art dealer Sir Joseph Duveen funded an extension to the Gallery, which was used to house the paintings of J.M.W. Turner. In 1932 the Gallery was re-named the Tate Gallery after Sir Henry Tate (1819-1899), an industrialist who had provided funding for the Gallery and bequeathed 65 paintings by British nineteenth century artists. The Tate Gallery was formally separated from the National Gallery in 1954.

In 1917 the National Gallery of British Art exhibited 39 modern European paintings which had been acquired, in controversial circumstances, from the Irish collector Sir Hugh Lane (1875-1915). The acquisition led the British Government to broaden the Gallery's collecting policy to encompass modern and contemporary works by overseas artists. Pressures of space eventually led to the separation in 2000 of the international modern and contemporary collections to a new gallery in the former Bankside Power Station (Tate Modern). The British collections remained in the Millbank building, which was re-named Tate Britain.

Access and use

Conditions Governing Access:

Available for Access.

Conditions Governing Use:

Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.

Permission to reproduce any part of these papers must be sought from the Tate Gallery Library Archive.