Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 1-48.
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Tate Britain
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | After AW
's marriage, Alice Harper returned to London briefly and opened a physiognomy parlour in Regent Street. She also became involved in Annie Besant
's Theosophist movement. Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, 1984, pp. 51-157. 146 A portrait of Alice... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | They had first met and begun to live together in 1939. Gowing (seventeen years younger than Strachey) was a painter, educator, and critic who acted as a Tate Gallery
trustee, Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 159 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| Leisure and Society | Mary Wollstonecraft | The painter John Opie
did a portrait of her at this time (now in Tate Britain
) which shows her wearing a fashionable, curled white wig. This seems to have been a studio prop, since... |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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
. qtd. in Murray, Isobel. “Sidonia the Sorceress: Pre-Raphaelite Cult Book”. Durham University Journal, Vol. 75 , No. 1, 1982, pp. 53-7. 53 |
| 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. The Poetry Archive. 2005, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do. |
| 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, 2007. 28 |
| 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... |
| 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... |
Timeline
1801: Philip James de Loutherbourg painted Coalbrookdale...
Building item
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.
“A Picture of Britain”. Tate Britain, 2005.
25 November 1841: Sculptor Sir Francis Chantrey died, leaving...
Building item
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.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
1890: The Tate Gallery purchased its first work...
Building item
1890
The Tate Gallery
purchased its first work of art from a female artist, Anna Lea Merritt
's Love Locked Out.
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
120
1896: Painter Mildred Anne Butler's watercolor...
Building item
1896
Painter Mildred Anne Butler
's watercolor The Morning Bath was purchased for the Tate Gallery
in London by the Chantrey
Bequest.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
49
Casteras, Susan P., and Linda H. Peterson. A Struggle for Fame: Victorian Women Artists and Authors. Yale Center for British Art, 1994.
54
1947: Painter Prunella Clough gave her first solo...
Building item
1947
Painter Prunella Clough
gave her first solo exhibition at the Leger Gallery
in London.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
62
1987: The Tate Gallery bought Sonia Boyce's drawing...
Building item
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.
Higgins, Charlotte. “’The vitriol was really unhealthy’: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs”. theguardian.com, 19 Mar. 2018.
12 May 2000: The Tate Gallery in London opened a new,...
Building item
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
.
Searle, Adrian. “Britain sees the big picture at last”. Guardian Weekly, 18–24 May 2000, p. 16.
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Tate Modern. http://www.tate.org.uk/home/default.htm.
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