Tate Gallery

Description

This file contains correspondence, meeting minutes and associated material relating to the Tate Gallery.


Herbert Read was a Trustee of the Tate Gallery from 1965 until his death in 1968.


File 1 covers the years 1955 – 1962 and includes: 1 typescript ‘Handbook for the Use of Trustees’, with Herbert Read’s name written on the cover, 1955; various signed typescript and carbon copy letters between Read, John Rothenstein, Director of the Tate Gallery, Allan D. Emil, lawyer and Trustee of the American Friends of the Tate Gallery and Peggy Guggenheim, dated 2 Nov - 6 Dec 1961, regarding the possibility of Guggenheim leaving her collection of modern painting and sculpture to the Tate, 9ff and 1 signed typescript letter to Read from Robert Adeane, Chairman of the Friends of the Tate Gallery, dated 30 May 1962, notifying Read of a proposed exhibition drawn from the private collections of the Friends and asking if he would loan works, 2ff.


File 2 covers the year 1965 and includes: 1 published booklet titled ‘Over 38 Reproductions in Colour from the Tate Gallery’, 1965; various signed typescript and carbon copy letters between Herbert Read, John Hewitt, Appointments Secretary to the Prime Minister, Norman Reid, Director of the Tate Gallery and the Secretary of the Treasury, dated 12 – 20 Mar 1965, confirming Read’s appointment as a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, 6ff; 1 typescript ‘Accounts – 31st March 1965’ booklet; 2 typescript documents titled ‘Memorandum on Purchasing’ and ‘The Representation of Key Figures’ written by Read, dated 2 Jul 1965, 22ff; 1 signed typescript letter to Read from Lawrence Gowing, fellow Trustee of the Tate Gallery, dated 4 Oct 1965, asking Read for his comments on an attached draft proposal for a grant to allow the Tate to purchase pictures before 1900, 5ff; signed typescript and carbon copy letters between Read and Reid, dated 26 Oct – 3 Nov 1965, discussing the collection of
Helen Sutherland and an exhibition on Naum Gabo, 3ff; typescript minutes for meetings of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery from May – Jul and Oct – Dec 1965 and 1 typescript Annual Report for the year 1964 – 1965.


File 3 covers the year 1966 and includes: 1 typescript ‘Accounts – 31st March 1966’ booklet; 2 typescript lists titled ‘Tate Gallery – Special Exhibitions’, detailing potential exhibitions from 1966 - 1969, 2ff; 2 typescript lists titled ‘Possible Gifts to the Tate Gallery by Henry Moore’, 4ff and typescript minutes for meetings of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery from Jan – Jul and Sep – Dec 1966.


File 4 covers the year 1967 and includes: 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Colin Anderson, Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, dated 9 Jan 1967, discussing the possibility of Anthony Lousada succeeding him as Chairman after his retirement, 1f; 1 typescript booklet titled ‘Tate Gallery – Second Report on the Feasibility of the Proposed Extension’, dated 24 Feb 1967; 2 typescript documents titled ‘Exhibitions Policy’, dated 10 Mar 1967, including 2 copies of letters from Norman Reid and the Trustees of the Tate Gallery to Mark Rothko, dated 21 Mar 1967, thanking him for a gift of between 6 to 8 works, 9ff; various correspondence and documents relating to the possibility of an extension to the Tate Gallery to house the Henry Moore collection, including 2 cuttings of articles written by Sir Philip Hendy, Anthony Lousada and Craigie Aitchison about the Moore gift; 1 carbon copy letter from Read to Reid, dated 1 Jul 1967, suggesting possible names for an
Artist-Trustee including Patrick Heron and William Scott, 1f; 1 typescript booklet titled ‘The Tate Gallery Proposed Department of Exhibitions and Education’; 3 signed typescript letters, 1 with Read’s carbon copy response typed on verso, to Herbert and Lady Read from Ronald Alley, Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery, dated 27 Oct 1967, discussing the Tate’s planned major retrospective of Barbara Hepworth from Apr – May 1968, which the Reads agree to lend 3 works to, including a typescript loan receipt for the works ‘Mother and Child’ (1934), ‘Forms in Red’ (1941) and ‘Theatre Sister’ (1948), 6ff; 1 typescript list titled ‘Herbert Powell Collection – Items Selected from the Bequest for the Tate Gallery’, 3ff; 1 typescript list titled ‘ Works Offered on Loan by Keynes Trustees’, 1f; 2 typescript lists titled ‘Tate Gallery – Special Exhibitions’, detailing potential exhibitions from 1967 - 1969, 2ff and typescript minutes for meetings of
the Trustees of the Tate Gallery from Jan – Jul and Sep – Dec 1967.


File 5 covers the year 1968 and includes: 1 signed typescript letter, with Herbert Read’s carbon copy response typed on verso, to Read from Norman Reid, dated 26 Mar 1968, discussing developments in the potential Peggy Guggenheim bequest, 2ff; 1 signed typescript letter to Read from Anthony Lousada, Chairman of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery, dated 30 May 1968, asking Read for advice on the potential acquisition of a sculpture by Constantin Brancusi, 2ff and typescript minutes for meetings of the Trustees of the Tate Gallery from Jan – May 1968.

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