Word: tate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Joseph Duveen again presented the Tate gallery, London, with a new wing. This time, it is to be known as the "Sargent Gallery" and is specially designed to house the nucleus of a collection of paintings by the American, John Singer Sargent. The Tate Gallery presented by Sir Henry Tate in 1890, as an auxilliary to the National Gallery. Not only did he provide the ?80,000 needed for the new building, but also collection of 65 modern British pictures to go in it. The founder on the inscription on the building, refers to its own gift as "a thank...
...John Lavery's much-clawed-over portrait of Lady Lavery (TIME, Aug. 13) has found a resting-place. Lady Cunard, who held that Artist Lavery had been " insulted" when her offer to present the portrait to the Tate Gallery was rejected, has given it to the Guildhall Gallery, London. Lady Cunard is the wife of Sir Bache Edward Cunard (shipping magnate), and the daughter of the late E. F. Burke of New York. Lady Lavery was Miss Hazel Martyn, daughter of Edward Jenner Martyn of Chicago...
...Tate Gallery, London's famous storehouse of modern art, supplementing the old masters in the National, was offered by Lady Cunard, of the great shipping family, Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife, one of the show pieces of last year's Royal Academy. The governing committee refused to accept it, and the pot boiled over. Lady Cunard submitted her resignation from the committee in a caustic letter with the rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans...
...year, and an R.A. since 1896, has long ranked among the first portrait painters of the world. He is represented in many of the greatest public galleries of Europe and America, and some years ago had the one-man show at the Pittsburgh International. It is said that the Tate officials suggested that they would like to have one of his earlier productions, but Lavery said " No." The portrait of his wife has been rated by several of the best critics as a masterpiece. It is possible that the picture may come to the Metropolitan...