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...keepers also found rich friends. Sir Joseph Duveen gave a new wing to house the Tate's vast, unique J.M.W. Turner collection; his son (eventually Lord Duveen of Millbank, titled for the medieval name of the Tate's site) added the museum's soaring sculpture hall. Formed five years ago, the Friends of the Tate Gallery, some 830 amateurs who banquet by candlelight three times a year amid the modern sculpture, have already given six Henry Moores, bringing the museum's total to 35, and have widened the U.S. collection with works by Louise Nevelson, Jasper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Britain's Liveliest Museum | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uptown, Midtown, Museums: Art: Nov. 22, 1963 | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...Terence Rattigan. Last season Charles Boyer starred in Lord Pengo, a tracing-paper-thin characterization of Art Wheeler-Dealer Jo seph Duveen. Boyer was slyly fascinating; the play provoked yawns. In Man and Boy, Boyer plays Gregor Antonescu, a blurry blotting-pad version of the 20th century's master swindler, Ivar Kreuger. Boyer makes a charming cad; the play is a jaw-aching bore. If the evening proves anything, it is merely that actors who are graded 100 for talent sometimes get zero for judgment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Rococo Rotter | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

...TUSCANY-Duveen, 18 East 79th St. A sumptuous show including a Fra Angelico Madonna and Child and a Masolino Annunciation that have never been shown in the U.S. Also works by Giotto, Botticelli, Delia Robbia, Francesco di Giorgio. All but the Giottos are for sale. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

Married. Edward Fowles, 77, longtime head of Manhattan's aristocratic Duveen art gallery; and Jean Douglas, 62, mother-in-law of Author J. D. Salinger; both for the second time; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 1, 1963 | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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