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David Sylvester: A British Critic in New York
James Finch traces the early development of Sylvester’s distinctive focus on artists’ working processes through his use of the artist …
J.M.W. Turner’s Remedy: A Cure for Bilious Bowels
Ever wondered what you’d do if you were to suffer from the unpleasantries of a bout of traveller’s diarrhoea or …
Two Soviet Cartoonists in the David King Collection at Tate
Tate Library Cataloguer Andrey Lazarev explores the life and work of Konstantin Rotov and Boris Efimov, two popular cartoonists represented …
Acknowledgements
This publication marks the culmination of a major research project that brought together scholars, curators, conservators and archivists to reveal …
An ‘Outcast’ Abroad: Ad Reinhardt in London, 1964
When Ad Reinhardt’s first solo exhibition in the UK opened in 1964, the artist chose to present himself as an …
American Painting , 1946
Presented at the Tate Gallery in 1946, American Painting: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day was the first …
E.J. Power: A Pioneering Collector of American Art
E.J. (or Ted) Power was the first, and for a period, the only substantial collector of contemporary art in Britain. …
Modern Art in the United States , 1956
The 1956 exhibition Modern Art in the United States introduced visitors to the Tate Gallery to a wide range of …
The New American Painting , 1959
Keen to present the latest American painting to British audiences, the Tate Gallery secured a place for itself in the …
American Art under Norman Reid, 1964–79
Norman Reid’s directorship of the Tate Gallery was marked by several high-profile and sometimes controversial acquisitions and exhibitions of American …
‘Realism Reconsidered’: Ben Shahn in London, 1956
On the occasion of his inclusion in an exhibition of American art at the Tate Gallery in London in 1956, …
A Failed Charm Offensive: Tate and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Keen to expand °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s holdings of modern international art, the Director Norman Reid tried hard to persuade the American collector …
In Focus
These In Focus studies shed new light on works of post-war American art in °Õ²¹³Ù±ð’s collection, providing insights into their …
Resources
The texts reproduced in this section offer additional insights into the history of the reception of modern American art at …
Michael Compton, ‘Three Artists from Los Angeles’, 1970
Michael Compton joined Tate as Assistant Curator in 1965 and five years later took on a new role as Keeper …
John Rothenstein, ‘American Art Today’, 1941
Rothenstein describes here the recent growth of public art commissions in the US. President Roosevelt, he explained in what was …
E.C. Goossen, ‘The Art of the Real’, 1969
E.C. Goossen was a leading American critic and curator with in-depth knowledge of the contemporary art scene. Known for his …
Various authors, Modern Art in the United States , 1956
Tate hoped to host an exhibition of contemporary art from the United States soon after its first major show of …
Alfred Barr, ‘Introduction’, in The New American Painting , 1959
Three years after the exhibition Modern Art in the United States, Tate collaborated once more with New York’s Museum …
John Rothenstein, ‘A Note on American Painting’, 1946
John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, provided an overview, as seen from the British side of the Atlantic, of …