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Tate Britain

January 19, 2024

Tate Britain, known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery, is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London, England.[3] It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, having opened in 1897.[4] It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times, and in particular has large holdings of the works of J. M. W. Turner, who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The museum had 525,144 visitors in 2021, an increase of 34 percent from 2020 but still well below pre- COVID-19 pandemic levels. In 2021 it ranked 50th on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.[5]

Tate Britain
Location within Central London
Established1897; 127 years ago (1897)
LocationMillbank
London, SW1
Coordinates51°29′27″N 0°07′38″W / 51.490833°N 0.127222°W / 51.490833; -0.127222
Visitors525,144 (2021)[1]
DirectorAlex Farquharson[2]
Public transit access Pimlico
Websitetate.org.uk
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History edit

The gallery is on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill,[6] commenced in 1893, and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art. However, from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery, after its founder Sir Henry Tate, and in 1932 it officially adopted that name.[7] Before 2000, the gallery housed and displayed both British and modern collections, but the launch of Tate Modern saw Tate's modern collections move there, while the old Millbank gallery became dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art. As a consequence, it was renamed Tate Britain in March 2000.

The front part of the building was designed by Sidney R. J. Smith with a classical portico and dome behind, and the central sculpture gallery was designed by John Russell Pope. Tate Britain includes the Clore Gallery of 1987, designed by James Stirling, which houses work by J. M. W. Turner. The Clore Gallery has been regarded as an important example of Postmodern architecture, especially in the use of contextual irony: each section of the external facade quotes liberally from the building next to it in regard to materials and detailing.[8]

 
Clore Gallery, designed by James Stirling (1987).

Crises during its existence include flood damage to artworks from the River Thames spilling its banks, and bomb damage during World War II. However, most of the collection was in safe storage elsewhere during the war, and a large Stanley Spencer painting, deemed too big to move, had a protective brick wall built in front of it.

In 1970, the building was given Grade II* listed status.[9]

In 2012, Tate Britain announced that it had raised the £45 million[10] required to complete a major renovation, largely thanks to a £4.9 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and £1 million given by Tate Members.[11] The museum stayed open throughout the three phases[12] of renovation.[10] Completed in 2013, the newly designed sections were conceived by the architects Caruso St John and included a total of nine new galleries, with reinforced flooring to accommodate heavy sculptures. A second part was unveiled later that year, the centrepiece being the reopening of the building's Thames-facing entrance as well as a new spiral staircase beneath its rotunda.[12] The circular balcony of the rotunda's domed atrium, closed to visitors since the 1920s, was reopened. The gallery also now has a dedicated schools' entrance and reception beneath its entrance steps on Millbank and a new archive gallery for the presentation of temporary displays.[13]

Facilities edit

 
Millbank Millennium Pier outside Tate Britain, which is linked by a river bus to Tate Modern

The front entrance is accessible by steps. A side entrance at a lower level has a ramp for wheelchair access. The gallery provides a restaurant and a café, as well as a Friends room, open only to members of the Tate. This membership is open to the public on payment of an annual subscription. As well as administration offices the building complex houses the Prints and Drawings Rooms (in the Clore galleries),[14] as well as the Library[15] and Archive[16] in the Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms.[17] The restaurant features a mural by Rex Whistler, The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats. Protests over the depiction of the enslavement of Black children and the stereotyping of Chinese figures in the mural has led to the closure of the restaurant.[18]

Tate Britain and Tate Modern are now connected by a river bus along the River Thames, which runs from Millbank Millennium Pier immediately outside Tate Britain. The boat is decorated with spots, based on paintings of similar appearance by Damien Hirst. The lighting artwork incorporated in the pier's structure is by Angela Bulloch.[19]

Displays edit

The main display spaces show the permanent collection of historic British art, as well as contemporary work. It has rooms dedicated to works by one artist, such as: Tracey Emin, John Latham, Douglas Gordon, Sam Taylor-Wood, Tacita Dean, and Marcus Gheeraerts II, though these works, like the rest of the collection, are subject to rotation.

The gallery also organises career retrospectives of British artists and temporary major exhibitions of British Art. Every three years the gallery stages a Triennial exhibition in which a guest curator provides an overview of contemporary British Art. The 2003 Tate Triennial was called Days Like These.[20] Art Now is a small changing show of a contemporary artist's work in a dedicated room.

Tate Britain is the home of the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition, featuring four artists selected by a jury chaired by the director of Tate Britain. This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May, the show of their work opened in October and the prize itself given in December. Each stage of the prize generates media coverage, and there have also been a number of demonstrations against the prize, notably since 2000 an annual picket by Stuckist artists. In recent years the exhibition and award ceremony have taken place at locations other than in Tate Britain: for example, in Liverpool (2007), Derry (2013), Glasgow (2015) and Hull (2017).

Tate Britain has attempted to reach out to a different and younger audience with Late at Tate Britain on the first Friday of every month, with half-price admission to exhibitions, live music and performance art.[21] Other public involvement has included the display of visitors', as opposed to curators', interpretation of certain artworks.

Regular free tours operate on the hour, and at 1:15 pm on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday short 15-minute talks are given on paintings, artists and artistic styles.[22]

Permanent collection edit

Tate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day. As such, it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world (only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness, but with less depth).[citation needed] More recent artists include David Hockney, Peter Blake and Francis Bacon. Works in the permanent Tate collection, which may be on display at Tate Britain include:

Gallery edit

Statue of Millais edit

 
Statue of John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock at Tate Britain, installed 1905

When the Pre-Raphaelite painter and President of the Royal Academy, John Everett Millais, died in 1896, the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII) chaired a memorial committee, which commissioned a statue of the artist.[23] The sculpture, by Thomas Brock, was installed at the front of the gallery in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year, The Pall Mall Gazette called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him".[23]

In 1953, Tate Director, Sir Norman Reid, attempted to have it replaced by Rodin's John the Baptist, and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful". His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works. Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to English Heritage in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate.[23] In 2000 the statue was removed to the rear of the building.[23]

Transport connections edit

Service Station/Stop Lines/Routes served Distance
from Tate Britain
London Buses   Tate Britain   87
London Underground   Pimlico   0.4-mile walk[24]
National Rail   Vauxhall South Western Railway 0.5-mile walk[25]
London River Services   Millbank Millennium Pier   Tate to Tate 0.2-mile walk[26]

See also edit

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ "The Art Newspaper list of most-visited art museums in 2020, March 28,2022
  2. ^ Press Release: New Director of Tate Britain Appointed, Tate online, 29 July 2015. Retrieved 14 July 2016.
  3. ^ Tate. "History of Tate". Tate. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom". HiSoUR - Hi So You Are. 5 March 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  5. ^ The Art Newspaper, 28 March, 2022
  6. ^ 'General introduction', Survey of London: volume 26: Lambeth: Southern area (1956), pp. 1–17. Date accessed: 27 March 2010.
  7. ^ Tate: History of Tate – The gallery at Millbank, London Linked 15 May 2013
  8. ^ "British Architecture", Architectural Design, London, 1982, p.78.
  9. ^ Historic England. "Tate Gallery (1222913)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 31 August 2016.
  10. ^ a b Sulcas, Roslyn (18 November 2013). "Tate Britain Completes Renovation". New York Times. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  11. ^ "Tate Britain hits £45m renovation target". BBC News. 17 May 2012. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  12. ^ a b Merrick, Jay (18 November 2013). "Tate Britain's redesign: It may not be cool but it's restrained, and elegant, and it works". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  13. ^ "'Transformed' Tate Britain unveiled". BBC News. 18 November 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
  14. ^ "Prints and Drawings Rooms". Tate. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  15. ^ "Research services: library", Tate online.
  16. ^ "Research services:archive", Tate online.
  17. ^ "Research services: Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms", Tate online.
  18. ^ Lanre Bakare (7 December 2020). "Future of Tate Britain's 'offensive' Rex Whistler mural under review". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
  19. ^ "Millbank Pier web site". Millbankpier.co.uk. 22 May 2003. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  20. ^ "Days Like These", Tate online.
  21. ^ "events education", Tate online.
  22. ^ Tate Britain 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, LondonBoard.co.uk, Accessed 8 February 2012.
  23. ^ a b c d Birchall, Heather. "Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922", Tate online, February 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
  24. ^ "Walking directions to Tate Britain from Pimlico tube station". Google Maps. 1 January 1970. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  25. ^ "Walking directions to Tate Britain from Vauxhall station". Google Maps. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  26. ^ "Walking directions to Tate Britain from Millbank Millenium Pier". Google Maps. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

External links edit

 
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Tate Britain known from 1897 to 1932 as the National Gallery of British Art and from 1932 to 2000 as the Tate Gallery is an art museum on Millbank in the City of Westminster in London England 3 It is part of the Tate network of galleries in England with Tate Modern Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives It is the oldest gallery in the network having opened in 1897 4 It houses a substantial collection of the art of the United Kingdom since Tudor times and in particular has large holdings of the works of J M W Turner who bequeathed all his own collection to the nation It is one of the largest museums in the country The museum had 525 144 visitors in 2021 an increase of 34 percent from 2020 but still well below pre COVID 19 pandemic levels In 2021 it ranked 50th on the list of most visited art museums in the world 5 Tate BritainLocation within Central LondonEstablished1897 127 years ago 1897 LocationMillbankLondon SW1Coordinates51 29 27 N 0 07 38 W 51 490833 N 0 127222 W 51 490833 0 127222Visitors525 144 2021 1 DirectorAlex Farquharson 2 Public transit accessPimlicoWebsitetate org ukTateTate Britain Tate Liverpool Tate Modern Tate St Ives Contents 1 History 2 Facilities 3 Displays 4 Permanent collection 5 Gallery 6 Statue of Millais 7 Transport connections 8 See also 9 Notes and references 10 External linksHistory editThe gallery is on Millbank on the site of the former Millbank Prison Construction undertaken by Higgs and Hill 6 commenced in 1893 and the gallery opened on 21 July 1897 as the National Gallery of British Art However from the start it was commonly known as the Tate Gallery after its founder Sir Henry Tate and in 1932 it officially adopted that name 7 Before 2000 the gallery housed and displayed both British and modern collections but the launch of Tate Modern saw Tate s modern collections move there while the old Millbank gallery became dedicated to the display of historical and contemporary British art As a consequence it was renamed Tate Britain in March 2000 The front part of the building was designed by Sidney R J Smith with a classical portico and dome behind and the central sculpture gallery was designed by John Russell Pope Tate Britain includes the Clore Gallery of 1987 designed by James Stirling which houses work by J M W Turner The Clore Gallery has been regarded as an important example of Postmodern architecture especially in the use of contextual irony each section of the external facade quotes liberally from the building next to it in regard to materials and detailing 8 nbsp Clore Gallery designed by James Stirling 1987 Crises during its existence include flood damage to artworks from the River Thames spilling its banks and bomb damage during World War II However most of the collection was in safe storage elsewhere during the war and a large Stanley Spencer painting deemed too big to move had a protective brick wall built in front of it In 1970 the building was given Grade II listed status 9 In 2012 Tate Britain announced that it had raised the 45 million 10 required to complete a major renovation largely thanks to a 4 9 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund and 1 million given by Tate Members 11 The museum stayed open throughout the three phases 12 of renovation 10 Completed in 2013 the newly designed sections were conceived by the architects Caruso St John and included a total of nine new galleries with reinforced flooring to accommodate heavy sculptures A second part was unveiled later that year the centrepiece being the reopening of the building s Thames facing entrance as well as a new spiral staircase beneath its rotunda 12 The circular balcony of the rotunda s domed atrium closed to visitors since the 1920s was reopened The gallery also now has a dedicated schools entrance and reception beneath its entrance steps on Millbank and a new archive gallery for the presentation of temporary displays 13 Facilities edit nbsp Millbank Millennium Pier outside Tate Britain which is linked by a river bus to Tate ModernThe front entrance is accessible by steps A side entrance at a lower level has a ramp for wheelchair access The gallery provides a restaurant and a cafe as well as a Friends room open only to members of the Tate This membership is open to the public on payment of an annual subscription As well as administration offices the building complex houses the Prints and Drawings Rooms in the Clore galleries 14 as well as the Library 15 and Archive 16 in the Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms 17 The restaurant features a mural by Rex Whistler The Expedition in Pursuit of Rare Meats Protests over the depiction of the enslavement of Black children and the stereotyping of Chinese figures in the mural has led to the closure of the restaurant 18 Tate Britain and Tate Modern are now connected by a river bus along the River Thames which runs from Millbank Millennium Pier immediately outside Tate Britain The boat is decorated with spots based on paintings of similar appearance by Damien Hirst The lighting artwork incorporated in the pier s structure is by Angela Bulloch 19 Displays editThe main display spaces show the permanent collection of historic British art as well as contemporary work It has rooms dedicated to works by one artist such as Tracey Emin John Latham Douglas Gordon Sam Taylor Wood Tacita Dean and Marcus Gheeraerts II though these works like the rest of the collection are subject to rotation The gallery also organises career retrospectives of British artists and temporary major exhibitions of British Art Every three years the gallery stages a Triennial exhibition in which a guest curator provides an overview of contemporary British Art The 2003 Tate Triennial was called Days Like These 20 Art Now is a small changing show of a contemporary artist s work in a dedicated room Tate Britain is the home of the annual and usually controversial Turner Prize exhibition featuring four artists selected by a jury chaired by the director of Tate Britain This is spread out over the year with the four nominees announced in May the show of their work opened in October and the prize itself given in December Each stage of the prize generates media coverage and there have also been a number of demonstrations against the prize notably since 2000 an annual picket by Stuckist artists In recent years the exhibition and award ceremony have taken place at locations other than in Tate Britain for example in Liverpool 2007 Derry 2013 Glasgow 2015 and Hull 2017 Tate Britain has attempted to reach out to a different and younger audience with Late at Tate Britain on the first Friday of every month with half price admission to exhibitions live music and performance art 21 Other public involvement has included the display of visitors as opposed to curators interpretation of certain artworks Regular free tours operate on the hour and at 1 15 pm on Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday short 15 minute talks are given on paintings artists and artistic styles 22 Permanent collection editTate Britain is the national gallery of British art from 1500 to the present day As such it is the most comprehensive collection of its kind in the world only the Yale Center for British Art can claim similar expansiveness but with less depth citation needed More recent artists include David Hockney Peter Blake and Francis Bacon Works in the permanent Tate collection which may be on display at Tate Britain include Unknown 17th century artist The Cholmondeley Ladies Francis Bacon Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion William Blake Newton David Bomberg The Mud Bath John Constable Flatford Mill Richard Dadd The Fairy Feller s Master Stroke Herbert James Draper The Lament for Icarus William Dyce Pegwell Bay Kent a Recollection of 5 October 1858 Augustus Egg Past and Present Thomas Gainsborough Giovanna Baccelli Mark Gertler Merry Go Round Joseph Highmore Pamela is Married William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug William Holman Hunt The Awakening Conscience John Martin The Great Day of His Wrath Henry Moore Recumbent Figure 1938 Sir John Everett Millais Ophelia Sir Joshua Reynolds Three Ladies Adorning a Term of hymen Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ecce Ancilla Domini Beata Beatrix Sir Peter Paul Rubens Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling John Singer Sargent Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth Stanley Spencer The Resurrection Cookham George Stubbs Horse Attacked by a Lion Henry Scott Tuke August Blue J M W Turner The Golden Bough Norham Castle Sunrise Henry Wallis The Death of Chatterton John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott The Magic Circle James Abbott McNeill Whistler Symphony in White No 2 The Little White Girl Nocturne Blue and Gold Old Battersea Bridge Rose Wylie Pin Up and Porn Queen Jigsaw Gillian Wise Looped Network Suspended in Pictorial Space Alison Wilding Assembly Rachel Whiteread Untitled Floor Ceiling Joanna Mary Wells Gretchen Paule Vezelay Five Forms Annie Louisa Swynnerton Oreads Helen Saunders Monochrome Abstract Composition Eva Rothschild The Fallowfield Bridget Riley Achaean Paula Rego War Fiona Rae Maybe you can live on the moon in the next century Grace Pailthorpe December 4th 1938 Mabel Nicholson Family Group Jessica Dismorr Abstract Composition Lucy McKenzie Side Entrance Mary Martin artist Inversions Hilary Lloyd One Minute of Water Kim Lim Shogun Liliane Lijn Headborn Claudette Johnson Standing Figure with African Masks Gwen John Nude Girl Frances Hodgkins Flatford Mill Susan Hiller Belshazzar s Feast the Writing on Your Wall Amelia Robertson Hill Percy Bysshe Shelley Barbara Hepworth Spring 1957 Project for Sculpture Dora Gordine Javanese HeadGallery edit nbsp William Hogarth The Painter and his Pug 1745 nbsp Thomas Gainsborough Giovanna Baccelli 1782 nbsp William Blake Newton 1785 nbsp Joshua Reynolds The Age of Innocence 1788 nbsp John Constable Flatford Mill Scene on a Navigable River 1816 nbsp William Blake Satan Smiting Job with Sore Boils c 1826 nbsp John Constable Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows 1831 nbsp J M W Turner Snow Storm Steam Boat off a Harbour s Mouth 1842 nbsp J M W Turner Peace Burial at Sea 1842 nbsp J M W Turner Norham Castle Sunrise 1845 nbsp Sir John Everett Millais Ophelia 1851 52 nbsp Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Beloved 1865 66 nbsp James Abbott McNeill Whistler Nocturne Blue and Gold Old Battersea Bridge c 1872 1875 nbsp Frederic Leighton An Athlete Wrestling with a Python 1877 nbsp John Singer Sargent Carnation Lily Lily Rose 1885 nbsp John William Waterhouse The Magic Circle 1886 nbsp George Frederic Watts Hope 1886 nbsp John William Waterhouse The Lady of Shalott 1888 nbsp Anna Lea Merritt Love Locked Out 1890 nbsp David Bomberg The Mud Bath 1914Statue of Millais edit nbsp Statue of John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock at Tate Britain installed 1905When the Pre Raphaelite painter and President of the Royal Academy John Everett Millais died in 1896 the Prince of Wales later to become King Edward VII chaired a memorial committee which commissioned a statue of the artist 23 The sculpture by Thomas Brock was installed at the front of the gallery in the garden on the east side in 1905 On 23 November that year The Pall Mall Gazette called it a breezy statue representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him 23 In 1953 Tate Director Sir Norman Reid attempted to have it replaced by Rodin s John the Baptist and in 1962 again proposed its removal calling its presence positively harmful His efforts were frustrated by the statue s owner the Ministry of Works Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to English Heritage in 1996 and by them in turn to the Tate 23 In 2000 the statue was removed to the rear of the building 23 Transport connections editService Station Stop Lines Routes served Distancefrom Tate BritainLondon Buses nbsp Tate Britain nbsp 87London Underground nbsp Pimlico nbsp 0 4 mile walk 24 National Rail nbsp Vauxhall South Western Railway 0 5 mile walk 25 London River Services nbsp Millbank Millennium Pier nbsp Tate to Tate 0 2 mile walk 26 See also editList of national galleriesNotes and references edit The Art Newspaper list of most visited art museums in 2020 March 28 2022 Press Release New Director of Tate Britain Appointed Tate online 29 July 2015 Retrieved 14 July 2016 Tate History of Tate Tate Retrieved 30 July 2021 Tate Britain London United Kingdom HiSoUR Hi So You Are 5 March 2017 Retrieved 30 July 2021 The Art Newspaper 28 March 2022 General introduction Survey of London volume 26 Lambeth Southern area 1956 pp 1 17 Date accessed 27 March 2010 Tate History of Tate The gallery at Millbank London Linked 15 May 2013 British Architecture Architectural Design London 1982 p 78 Historic England Tate Gallery 1222913 National Heritage List for England Retrieved 31 August 2016 a b Sulcas Roslyn 18 November 2013 Tate Britain Completes Renovation New York Times Retrieved 19 November 2013 Tate Britain hits 45m renovation target BBC News 17 May 2012 Retrieved 19 November 2013 a b Merrick Jay 18 November 2013 Tate Britain s redesign It may not be cool but it s restrained and elegant and it works The Independent Archived from the original on 26 May 2022 Retrieved 19 November 2013 Transformed Tate Britain unveiled BBC News 18 November 2013 Retrieved 19 November 2013 Prints and Drawings Rooms Tate Retrieved 15 August 2010 Research services library Tate online Research services archive Tate online Research services Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms Tate online Lanre Bakare 7 December 2020 Future of Tate Britain s offensive Rex Whistler mural under review The Guardian Retrieved 7 December 2020 Millbank Pier web site Millbankpier co uk 22 May 2003 Retrieved 15 August 2010 Days Like These Tate online events education Tate online Tate Britain Archived 9 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine LondonBoard co uk Accessed 8 February 2012 a b c d Birchall Heather Sir Thomas Brock 1847 1922 Tate online February 2002 Retrieved 5 April 2008 Walking directions to Tate Britain from Pimlico tube station Google Maps 1 January 1970 Retrieved 15 August 2010 Walking directions to Tate Britain from Vauxhall station Google Maps Retrieved 15 August 2010 Walking directions to Tate Britain from Millbank Millenium Pier Google Maps Retrieved 8 April 2011 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tate Britain Official website Virtual tour of the Tate Britain provided by Google Arts amp Culture Portals nbsp London nbsp Visual arts Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Tate Britain amp oldid 1185391313, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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