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Catalogue description Tate Gallery: Buildings: Papers and Correspondence
This record is held by Tate Gallery Archive
| Reference: | TG 14 |
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| Title: | Tate Gallery: Buildings: Papers and Correspondence |
| Description: |
This series relates to the Tate Gallery's buildings and comprises:
Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference TG 14). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, see TG 14. |
| Date: | 1890-1992 |
| Related material: |
Early plans are held in: WORK 33 See also TG 12 Tate Modern Project: TG 12 |
| Held by: | Tate Gallery Archive, not available at The National Archives |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Physical description: | 131 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | No records held at The National Archives in this departmental code |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
The records have either been deposited in the archives via the Director's Office or had previously been transferred to Gallery Records or its predecessors. |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The original building designed by Sidney Smith was opened in 1897 and paid for by Sir Henry Tate. The first extension, also provided by Tate, was handed over to H.M. Office of Works in November 1899. In 1910 the new Turner Gallery (provided by Sir Joseph Duveen) was opened and in 1926 King George V opened the Modern Foreign Gallery and Sargent Gallery paid for by Sir Joseph Duveen the younger (later Lord Duveen of Millbank). This was followed in 1937 by the new sculpture gallery also donated by Lord Duveen. In 1969 the adjacent site of the Queen Alexandra Military Hospital was allocated to the Tate for expansion. The extension building on the old site was opened in 1979 and the Clore Gallery on the QAMH site in 1987. The Tate Gallery Centenary Development was completed in 2001. |
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