Catalogue description Tate Gallery: Tate Members: Papers and Correspondence

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Details of TG 20
Reference: TG 20
Title: Tate Gallery: Tate Members: Papers and Correspondence
Description:

This series of records relates to the The Friends of the Tate Gallery and comprises:

  • Council, 1957-1982
  • AGMs, 1960-1988
  • Executive Committee, 1966-1989
  • Annual reports, 1959-1989
  • Correspondence, 1957-1986
  • Acquisitions, 1958-1977
  • Events, 1959-1989
  • Photographs, c1958-1980s
  • Press cuttings, 1958-1973
  • American Friends, 1959-1964
  • Young Friends, 1968-1990

Records held at the Tate Gallery are catalogued more fully in its online catalogue (reference TG 20). Online descriptions of some individual records can also be viewed on Discovery, The National Archives' online catalogue, see TG 20.

Date: 1957-1990
Held by: Tate Gallery Archive, not available at The National Archives
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 132 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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 Friends of the Tate Gallery was established in 1958 as a body which would raise funds for the purchase of works of art. In due course groups were formed within the Friends to appeal to particular sections of the membership: Young Friends in 1968, the Patrons of New Art in 1982 and the Patrons of British Art in 1986 (the latter two being limited to 200 members each). In 2001 the Friends were renamed Tate Members.

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