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"include the national collection of modern art as well as the national collection of British art, in 1932, it was renamed the Tate Gallery after sugar magnate Henry Tate of Tate & Lyle, who had laid the foundations for the collection. The Tate Gallery was housed in the current building occupied by Tate Britain, which is situated in Millbank, London. In 2000, the Tate Gallery transformed itself into the current-day Tate, which consists of a network of four museums: Tate Britain, which displays the collection of British art from 1500 to the present day; Tate Modern, also in London, which"
"Homer Tate Homer Tate (September 7, 1884 – February 21, 1975} was an American nicknamed the ""King of Gaffes"" for devising strange ""artifacts"" that were often used in roadside attractions and sideshows to fool and amuse the public. Among his best known works is The Thing. Tate was born in Poetry, Texas, and moved to Arizona in the 1890s and/or to Gila Valley, Arizona, around 1915. He was a miner and a farmer and also operated a motel and gas station. Tate was elected sheriff of Graham County, serving from 1925 to 1928. In the late 1930s or '40s, he"
"began to make artifacts from mud, paper and bones, which he sold for small sums. They were passed off by the purchasers as mummies (such as The Thing), mermaids and shrunken heads. Some of his items were purchased by Mike Wolfe in an episode of the television series ""American Pickers"". Homer Tate Homer Tate (September 7, 1884 – February 21, 1975} was an American nicknamed the ""King of Gaffes"" for devising strange ""artifacts"" that were often used in roadside attractions and sideshows to fool and amuse the public. Among his best known works is The Thing. Tate was born in"
"bequeathed all his own collection to the nation. It is one of the largest museums in the country. The gallery is situated on Millbank, on the site of the former Millbank Prison. Construction, undertaken by Higgs and Hill, 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. Before 2000, the gallery housed and displayed both British and modern collections, but the launch of Tate Modern"
"opposite his Thames Refinery, a bar and dance hall for their recreation. Tate rapidly became a millionaire and donated generously to charity. In 1889 he donated his collection of 65 contemporary paintings to the government, on the condition that they be displayed in a suitable gallery, toward the construction of which he also donated £80,000. The National Gallery of British Art, nowadays known as Tate Britain, was opened on 21 July 1897, on the site of the old Millbank Prison. Tate made many donations, often anonymously and always discreetly. He supported ""alternative"" and non-establishment causes. There was £10,000 for the"
"the Tate. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York also has examples. After his death, his family donated his print-making tools to the Victoria and Albert Museum. John Platt (artist) ""For other people named John Platt, see John Platt."" John Edgar Platt (19 March 1886 – 29 April 1967) was an English painter, woodcut artist and designer of stained glass. Platt was born in Leek, Staffordshire, the son of local hotel owners. He was educated at the High School, Newcastle Under Lyme and at Margate Art School and the Leek School of Art before going to study at the"
"Edwin Manton Sir Edwin Alfred Grenville Manton (January 22, 1909 – October 1, 2005) was a driving force in the creation of the American International Group (AIG), a collector of paintings by John Constable and his contemporaries, and a generous benefactor to the arts, the church and medicine. Knighted in 1994 for charitable services to the Tate Gallery he was, after Sir Henry Tate, the most generous benefactor in its history and continued to involve himself in the affairs of the gallery well into his 90s. Sir Edwin, known to his colleagues in America as Jimmy and to friends in"
"Tate Britain 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. 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. 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"
"named after the American cartoonist, Rube Goldberg, whose cartoons often depicted such machines. Rube Goldberg's cartoons became well known for depicting complicated devices that performed simple tasks in indirect convoluted ways. The cartoon above is Goldberg's ""Professor Butts and the Self-Operating Napkin"", which was later reprinted in a few book collections, including the postcard book ""Rube Goldberg's Inventions!"" and the hardcover ""Rube Goldberg: Inventions"", both compiled by Maynard Frank Wolfe from the Rube Goldberg Archives. The term ""Rube Goldberg"" was being used in print to describe elaborate contraptions by 1928, and appeared in the ""Random House Dictionary of the English"
"artist. This 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"". 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"
"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"
"held at the Harvard Business School's Baker Library. Samuel Slater Samuel Slater (June 9, 1768 – April 21, 1835) was an early English-American industrialist known as the ""Father of the American Industrial Revolution"" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson), ""Sam the Slate""(commonly used in Philadelphia after his evasion of the British military in the War of 1812), and the ""Father of the American Factory System"". In the UK, he was called ""Slater the Traitor"" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. He memorized the designs of textile factory machinery as an apprentice to"
"Thomas Battam Thomas Battam (1810 – October 1864) was a British painter of miniatures. He was born in London. He produced copies in enamels, several of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1833 to 1840. Battam later became art director at the Copeland porcelain factory, and was the founder, and president, of the Crystal Palace Art Union. He claimed to be the inventor of Parian Ware, an inexpensive substitute for marble. He died at Notting Hill, London, aged about fifty-four (Oct 28, 1864). Source : D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters Vol I, London (1972)"
"Thomas Battam Thomas Battam (1810 – October 1864) was a British painter of miniatures. He was born in London. He produced copies in enamels, several of which were exhibited at the Royal Academy, London from 1833 to 1840. Battam later became art director at the Copeland porcelain factory, and was the founder, and president, of the Crystal Palace Art Union. He claimed to be the inventor of Parian Ware, an inexpensive substitute for marble. He died at Notting Hill, London, aged about fifty-four (Oct 28, 1864). Source : D. Foskett, A Dictionary of British Miniature Painters Vol I, London (1972)"
"art schools, including Oxford Brookes University, Sir John Cass College, Slade School of Fine Art, Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College, and in 1974 he founded the Sunningwell School of Art, Oxford. He was a versatile artist who celebrated working in various media and was unusual amongst his contemporaries in being represented in the Tate Gallery Collection with works in oil, watercolour, and print, as well as sculpture. His sculpture, Young Man Standing, also known as the Golden Man (Tate Gallery), was the subject of National controversy when it was withdrawn from exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral as it was"
"from the board, and retired from the company. The company was formed in 1921 from a merger of two rival sugar refiners: ""Henry Tate & Sons"" and ""Abram Lyle & Sons"". Henry Tate established his business in 1869 in Liverpool, later expanding to Silvertown in East London. He used his industrial fortune to found the Tate Institute in Silvertown in 1887 and the Tate Gallery in Pimlico, Central London in 1897. He endowed the gallery with his own collection of Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Abram Lyle, a cooper and shipowner, acquired an interest in a sugar refinery in 1865 in Greenock and"
"and the public, and earned the work a picture in ""Life"" magazine, earning him a degree of recognition that was unusual for an artist from St. Louis. He started showing his art during the early years of the Pace Gallery, which later became ""one of the most powerful art galleries in the world"". Some of his first art was acquired by the collections of the Guggenheim Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, as well as by the St. Louis Art Museum in his hometown and by Tate in London. Created in 1964, ""The Falling Man"","
"James Bolivar Manson James Bolivar Manson (26 June 1879 in London – 3 July 1945 in London) was an artist and worked at the Tate gallery for 25 years, being its Director 1930–1938. In the Tate's own evaluation he was the ""least successful"" of their Directors. His time there was frustrated by his stymied ambition as a painter and he declined into alcoholism, culminating in a drunken outburst at an official dinner in Paris. Although his art policies were more advanced than previously at the Tate and embraced Impressionism, he stopped short of accepting newer artistic movements like Surrealism and"
"1930, was the Academy's keeper from 1943–45, and served as its President from 1949-54. Kelly held a number of official positions, such as his membership of the Royal Fine Arts Commission, 1938–43, and was knighted in 1945. The artist John Napper worked as his assistant. In 1950 he was elected to the National Academy of Design as an Honorary Corresponding Academician. Kelly died in Exmouth in 1972. He is represented in many public collections, including the Tate Gallery, which holds seven works. His father was the Rev. Frederic Festus Kelly. His grandfather, also named Frederic Festus Kelly, was the founder"
"by the time he was 35. In 1859 Tate became a partner in John Wright & Co. sugar refinery, selling his grocery business in 1861. By 1869, he had gained complete control of the company, and renamed it to Henry Tate & Sons. In 1872, he purchased the patent from German Eugen Langen on a method of making sugar cubes, and in the same year built a new refinery in Liverpool. Tate rapidly became a millionaire, and donated generously to charity. In addition to his donations which eventually gave rise to the Tate Gallery, his anonymous and discreet gifts included"
"on Millbank, Pimlico, London at the site of the former Millbank Prison. The idea of a National Gallery of British Art was first proposed in the 1820s by Sir John Leicester, Baron de Tabley. It took a step nearer when Robert Vernon gave his collection to the National Gallery in 1847. A decade later John Sheepshanks gave his collection to the South Kensington Museum (later the Victoria & Albert Museum), known for years as the National Gallery of Art (the same title as the Tate Gallery had). Forty years later Sir Henry Tate who was a sugar magnate and a"
"Edward Tatum Edward Lawrie Tatum (December 14, 1909 – November 5, 1975) was an American geneticist. He shared half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958 with George Beadle for showing that genes control individual steps in metabolism. The other half of that year's award went to Joshua Lederberg. Beadle and Tatum's key experiments involved exposing the bread mold ""Neurospora crassa"" to x-rays, causing mutations. In a series of experiments, they showed that these mutations caused changes in specific enzymes involved in metabolic pathways. These experiments, published in 1941, led them to propose a direct link between"
"Charles Aitken Charles Aitken (12 September 1869 – 9 August 1936) was a British art administrator and was the third Keeper of the Tate Gallery (1911–1917) and the first Director (1917–1930). Charles Aitken was born at Bishophill, Bishophill Junior, York, England, the son of Henry Martin Aitken, a surgical instrument manufacturer, and his wife, Elizabeth Atkinson. He had two elder sisters including Rosa, former student of Girton College and teacher à North London Collegiate School, and Edith Aitken who would becoming a leading headteacher in South Africa. Charles Aitken studied at New College, Oxford. He was the first Director of"
"with John Storck, ""Flour for Man's Bread, a History of Milling"" (1952). Teague's writings were published in ""Forbes"", ""Art & Industry"", ""New Yorker"", the ""Seventh International Management Congress"", ""Interiors"", ""Business Week"", ""Art and Decoration"", Museum of Modern Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art archived texts, among others. Teague's product designs, texts, photographs, and archives are featured in major museums around the world. Among those that have featured Teague's works: Walter Dorwin Teague Walter Dorwin Teague (December 18, 1883 – December 5, 1960) was an American industrial designer, architect, illustrator, graphic designer, writer, and entrepreneur. Often referred to as the ""Dean"
"Francis Tate's brother, Sir William Tate (d. 1617). Tate made antiquarian collections which were used by William Camden and others, but remained unpublished at his death. John Selden describes him as ""multijugæ eruditionis et vetustatis peritissimus"". Copies of most of Tate's works are extant among the Stowe manuscripts in the British Museum. Francis Tate Francis Tate (1560–1616) was an English antiquary and politician, Member of Parliament for Northampton and Shrewsbury. Tate was born in 1560 at Gayton, the second son of Bartholomew Tate (d. 1601) of Delapre, Northamptonshire, by his wife Dorothy, daughter of Francis Tanfield of Gayton. On 20"
"Eugen Langen Carl Eugen Langen (9 October 1833 – 2 October 1895) was a German entrepreneur, engineer and inventor, involved in the development of the petrol engine and the Wuppertal Suspension Railway. In 1857 he worked in his father's sugar factory, JJ Langen & Söhne, and after extensive technical training at the Polytechnic institute in Karlsruhe, patented a method for producing sugar cubes. He sold this method in 1872 by Sir Henry Tate of England, founder of the Tate Gallery in London. In 1864, Langen met Nikolaus August Otto who was working to improve to the gas engine invented by"
"number of prominent members of the art world claimed to remember the artist. It caused quite a stir once the truth was revealed. The name ""Nat Tate"" is derived from the names of the two leading British art galleries: the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery. Boyd, who also paints, made a drawing artwork under the pseudonym of Nat Tate and sent it to auction, where it raised funds for an art charity. Nat Tate also appears in ""Any Human Heart"", also by Boyd, with a wry footnote to the 1998 book. William Boyd (writer) William Boyd (born 7 March"
"Aintree. Sir Henry Tate also came from Lancashire, joining Abram Lyle in 1921, of whose Golden Syrup tins are claimed to be Britain's oldest brand; he established the Tate Gallery in 1897. Robert Hope-Jones of the Wirral invented the Wurlitzer organ. The Christys' & Co factory in Stockport was the largest hat-making factory in the world in the nineteenth century; it became part of Associated British Hat Manufacturers and is now in Oxfordshire. The company owner's son founded Christy in 1850 in Droylsden (now in Tameside), which invented the industrially produced towel. Britain's most popular car, the Ford Escort, was"
"cream of his art collection to the National Gallery and the Tate. The combined value of the paintings in the bequest has been estimated at £100 million. In 2008, the National Gallery received five works, by Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, and Henri Rousseau, and the Tate thirteen, including works by Balthus and Lucian Freud. Sir Nicholas Serota, the director of the latter institution, called the bequest ""one of the most important gifts in the history of Tate"". The most recent comparable donations of artworks to the galleries are thought to be a gift to the Tate in the"
"Tate House (Tate, Georgia) The Tate House is a historic property east of Tate, Georgia on Georgia State Route 53, built for Colonel Samuel Tate in 1923. Designed by Walker and Weeks, architects in the Neo-Classical style, the home is made of pink and white marble supplied by Tate's Georgia Marble Company, and sometimes called the ""Pink Palace"". Tate was president of the marble company. The Tate House is two stories, rectangular, with a hipped roof, two interior chimneys, and a pedimented tetrastyle front entrance portico. At the rear is a slightly projecting pedimented section with a one-story portico. The"
"West Norwood Cemetery have recorded and compiled biographies for of these with: There are also many notables of the time, such as Sir Henry Tate, sugar magnate and founder of London's Tate Gallery, Arthur Anderson, co-founder of the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company, Paul Julius Baron von Reuter, founder of the news agency, and the Revd. Charles Spurgeon, Baptist preacher, Isabella Beeton (the famous cookery writer), who died at 28 in childbirth, Lloyd Jones, Co-operative Society activist, to name but a few. The Greek diaspora is well represented, including the Ralli family, Panayis Vagliano, Rodocanachi family, Michalinos Family and"
"Tate baronets The Tate Baronetcy, of Park Hill in Streatham in the County of London, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 27 June 1898 for the sugar magnate and philanthropist Henry Tate. He gave Tate Gallery to the nation. The second Baronet was High Sheriff of Lancashire in 1907. The fourth Baronet served as High Sheriff of Rutland from 1949 to 1950. The fifth Baronet served as managing director of the family company, Tate & Lyle, and was later chairman of the London Futures & Options Exchange. As of 2014 the title"
"his retirement from the position of Director in 1930, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1931 King's Birthday Honours. He died on 9 August 1936. Charles Aitken Charles Aitken (12 September 1869 – 9 August 1936) was a British art administrator and was the third Keeper of the Tate Gallery (1911–1917) and the first Director (1917–1930). Charles Aitken was born at Bishophill, Bishophill Junior, York, England, the son of Henry Martin Aitken, a surgical instrument manufacturer, and his wife, Elizabeth Atkinson. He had two elder sisters including Rosa, former student of Girton"