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Until he died in 1946, Painter Paul Nash had escaped official honors. The retrospective show of his paintings at London's Tate Gallery last week was a national accolade, and it made Nash the talk of the town...
...Queen Elizabeth herself had attended the posh but chilly opening (there was a stokers' strike). The 68 oils and 76 water colors on exhibition brightened the gallery air and thawed most critics' reserve. "What other British artist of this generation," asked the Sunday Times, "could fill the Tate . . . without a hint of monotony?" Added the Spectator: "Perhaps the most consistently fine water colorist of the 20th Century...
...Founder Tate always liked a picture that told a story, so the gallery began with such contemporary favorites as Sir Luke Fildes' The Doctor, Lord Leighton's The Sea Shall Give Up Its Dead, and Millais' drowned Ophelia (his model: Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who posed fully gowned in a tub of flower-littered water...
Utrillo's Revenge. Tate planned his treat as a show place for living painters. But there were a few reaches into the past by one director, who could not stand the way some living artists were working. Cherubic James Bolivar Manson, who was director from 1930 to 1938, once inspected two lumpish sculptures by Hans Arp and Brancusi at the request of British customs officials and advised them not to classify such horrors as art. (He finally reconsidered and the sculptures were let in.) Manson also once noted in a catalogue that Painter Maurice Utrillo was "a confirmed dipsomaniac...
Puckish John Knewstub Rothenstein, the Tate's present director, is a man given to pastel-colored shirts and the adjective "delicious." He is all-out for modern art. During the war, Rothenstein packed most of the Tate's treasures off to rural hiding places, then busied himself with the acquisition of over 600 new works, including some by British Modernists Graham Sutherland, Henry Moore, John Piper. The gallery was bombed (only six of its 34 rooms are usable now), but attendance has climbed to more than double prewar. Rothenstein realizes that much of what he buys will soon...