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...said Tate Director Rothenstein: "I know there has been some opposition. But in spite of this, Resurrection does have a spiritual intensity and prodigal imaginative force, which in my opinion amply justify its acquisition...
...most matters of art, London's progressive Tate Gallery and the conservative Royal Academy happily stick to their separate tracks. One subject on which both have been meeting head-on for some 50 years: how to spend the proceeds of the ?105,000 bequest left by 19th Century Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey (TIME, Jan. 10, 1949 et seq.). So long as the Royal Academy made all the selections, the progressives howled-and in recent years outspoken Tate Director John Rothenstein had been chuting most of the Chantrey purchases straight to the cellar...
Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...
...Tombs. The seventh child of a Cookham organist, Spencer has stuck to the town all his life (except for a stretch of military service in World War I) and crammed his religious paintings with its people and places. Like his 1926 Resurrection, which now hangs in London's Tate Gallery, Spencer's new version of Judgment Day is laid in the Cookham graveyard. Its risen dead are a queerly turned lot, dressed in puppet-show clothes. They are tightly knotted into a composition that borrows something both from cubism and from the 16th Century Flemish master, Pieter Bruegel...
...exception to this cautious policy was 67-year-old Baron Lyle of Westbourne, whose firm of Tate & Lyle is the biggest sugar refinery in Britain (the baron's coat of arms includes interlaced sugar canes surmounted by a defiant rooster). Baron Lyle is the sponsor of the "Mr. Cube" cartoons, which feature an animated lump of sugar with definite opinions against proposals to nationalize Britain's sugar industry (TIME, Dec. 19). The "Mr. Cube" cartoons, he declared frostily, would continue to appear on his sugar packages, at least until the King dissolves Parliament...