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Tate Britain
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Fleur Adcock | She has recorded five of her poems for The Poetry Archive. They are headed with a quotation from her Leaving the Tate: Art's whatever you choose to frame. |
Reception | Anna Atkins | One of her cyanotype prints from this book, the beautiful Papaver [poppy] orientale, was selected as the first illustration in the Tate Gallery
's catalogue How We Are: Photographing Britain, 2007. Williams, Val, and Susan Bright. How We Are: Photographing Britain. Tate Publishing. 28 |
Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Wealth and Poverty | Mary Butts | MB
's mother sold these works by Blake in 1906 in order to pay death-duties—an act which Mary, even at fifteen, fully realised to be a mistake. The paintings are now part of the Blake... |
Author summary | Dora Carrington | DC
is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain
and Simon Bussy
gave her... |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
, the Tate Gallery
, the Slade School of Art
, and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries... |
Textual Production | Wendy Cope | Many of these poems first appeared in newspapers and periodicals: the Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, and so on, and one pseudonymously as a submission... |
Leisure and Society | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | MGF
was painted several times. The National Portrait Gallery
has a portrait of her and her husband by Ford Madox Brown
, commissioned by family friend and politician Sir Charles Dilke
and painted in 1874... |
Reception | Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde | Elgee's translation gained this novel a wider audience. In later years Dante Gabriel Rossetti
developed a positive passion for it, and it became very popular with the Pre-Raphaelites
. Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, pp. 53-7. 53 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Jennings | She includes poems for poets, artists, and thinkers: George Herbert
, Charles Causley
, Philip Larkin
, J. M. W. Turner
, Caravaggio
, Chardin
, Goya
, Hume
, and Descartes
. A sequence... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Alice Dixon Le Plongeon | Alice's eldest brother Thomas James
, worked as a photographer with their father, and took over the business after his death. Her brother Harry
was trained in painting and sculpture, and some of his paintings... |
Textual Production | Ling Shuhua | This collection includes her short, unpublished memoir. Her papers also are held by Wuhan University
; the Tate Gallery Archive
; King's College, Cambridge
; and Dartington Library
. These holdings include manuscripts, correspondence, and photographs. Laurence, Patricia Ondek. Lily Briscoe’s Chinese Eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China. University of South Carolina Press. 1-3, 432 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Grace Nichols | GN
's Paint Me a Poem appeared, containing twenty-six poems for children which are the fruit of her spell as Writer-in-Residence at the Tate Gallery
in 1999-2000 (its final year before becoming Tate Britain
). Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Freya Stark | FS
's father, Robert Stark
, had left his family at Torquay in Devon to study art in Rome and was on a visit to his uncle's home near Florence, when he met his first... |
Textual Features | Anne Stevenson | Many of these poems are occasional. Journal Entry: Ward's Island, inscribed to Lauris Edmond
, recalls minus-eighteen-degree weather on the last day of a poetry festival in Toronto in February 1989. (AS
describes... |
Timeline
1801: Philip James de Loutherbourg painted Coalbrookdale...
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1801
Philip James de Loutherbourg
painted Coalbrookdale by Night, a theatrically romantic picture of a famous industrial village: houses perched on the valley cliffs, with a clouded sky glaring red from furnaces.
25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...
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25 November 1841
Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey
died, leaving conditions in his will that after the death of his wife, more than £100,000 would be left to set up a national public collection of fine art in Britain.
1890: The Tate Gallery purchased its first work...
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1890
The Tate Gallery
purchased its first work of art from a female artist, Anna Lea Merritt
's Love Locked Out.
1896: Painter Mildred Anne Butler's watercolor...
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1896
Painter Mildred Anne Butler
's watercolor The Morning Bath was purchased for the Tate Gallery
in London by the Chantrey
Bequest.
1947: Painter Prunella Clough gave her first solo...
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1947
1987: The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce's drawing...
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1987
The Tate Gallery
bought Sonia Boyce
's drawing entitled Missionary Position II. Boyce was the first black female artist to enter the collection and, she later discovered to her shock, only the fifth woman.
12 May 2000: The Tate Gallery in London opened a new,...
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12 May 2000
The Tate Gallery
in London opened a new, separate, and larger institution: the Tate Modern
on Bankside; from now on the old Tate would be known as Tate Britain
.
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