| 1819 | 1819 - Chorley is the indirect source of a great art collection: Henry Tate, founder of the sugar firm, was born here in 1819, and with the fortune he made, he endowed London's Tate Gallery. After five minutes' walk from Union Street car park you escape through the big ...Chorley, Lancashire. Chorley is the indirect source of a great art collection: Henry Tate, founder of the sugar firm, was born here in 1819, and with the fortune he made, he endowed London's Tate Gallery. After five minutes' walk from Union Street car park you escape through the big gates of Astley Hall into spacious and peaceful parkland. It takes three or four times as long to stroll across to the Hall. This Renaissance structure is superbly set beside placid water.  Show more  Show lesswww.bedbreakfastavailability.co.uk/chorley.php
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| 1851 | 1851 - The Tate Gallery was the recipient of Turner's estate when he died in 1851. The show at the Kimbell will contain the works he completed during multiple visits to Venice, Italy, over 20 years. There will be 30 oil paintings and more than 100 works on paper by ...The Tate Gallery was the recipient of Turner's estate when he died in 1851. The show at the Kimbell will contain the works he completed during multiple visits to Venice, Italy, over 20 years. There will be 30 oil paintings and more than 100 works on paper by Turner, plus pieces by Titian, Tintoretto and Canaletto that accompany the Turner trove to illustrate their influence on his work. Turner was considered a brilliant technician, and he realized commercial success during ... Show more Show lessdocs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00154,0FDD6F5B2BB3D0B3.html
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| 1897 | 1897 - The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. , and at Bankside, just below the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art, which opens in ...In July, Dion organized two week-long digs, at Millbank, across the river from the old Tate Gallery Tate Gallery, London, originally the National Gallery of British Art. The original building (in Millbank on the former site of Millbank Prison), with a collection of 65 modern British paintings, was given by Sir Henry Tate and was opened in 1897. , and at Bankside, just below the future Tate Gallery of Modern Art, which opens in May. With the help of some twenty-odd ... Show more Show lesswww.thefreelibrary.com/STREAM+OF+CONSCIENCE-a057785654
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| 1956 | Apr 13, 1956 - A French impressionist painting, valued at $28000, vanished today from its place in the National Collection at the Tate Gallery in London. ... The painting disappeared from the wall of the Tate Gallery between 10 and 11:10 AM Scotland Yard detectives theorized that one of the ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F1091FFF3E54177B93C1A8178FD85F428585F9
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| 1967 | Apr 11, 1967 - LONDON, April 10 Mark Rothko, the American abstract painter, is considering donating about 20 of his pictures to the Tate Gallery, Norman Reid, director of the Tate said tonight. The possible acquisition grew out of : several discussions Mr. Reid held with the 63-year-old artist in New ... select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F10A17F93558107B93C3A8178FD85F438685F9
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| 1988 | Jun 20, 1988 - "It's a marvelous gift and we shall be buying modern works," said Sir Alan Bowness, director of the [Tate], which houses the national collection of British art and modern foreign art. The Tate owns the most important collection of American 20th-Century art of any museum outside the ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/59925180.html?dids=59925180:59925180&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date=Jun+20%2C+1988...Tate+Gallery...
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| 1994 | Nov 12, 1994 - OUR present time is often described as the age of information, with the computer as its symbol. Most peopIe's daily experience of technology is still, I suspect, predominantly characterised by the mechanical rather than the cybernetic. Motors, gears, pumps ... these are the things that ... www.newscientist.com/article/mg14419514.300--in-our-image--rebecca-horn-exhibition-at-the-tate-gallery -and-serpentine--gallery-london-.html
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| 1998 | Dec 2, 1998 - Call it curiosity or a cult happening or simply going to the party 18 months early, but the site of the new Tate Gallery of Modern Art, ... A museum for modern art also gives Mr. Serota the chance to refocus the original site at Millbank, which will become the Tate Gallery of British ... www.nytimes.com/1998/12/02/arts/early-start-for-tate-s-new-museum-londoners-already-flock-site-modern -art.html?pagewanted=all
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| 1999 | Jul 30, 1999 - The first piece of looted Jewish art to turn up in a British museum has allegedly been discovered at the Tate Gallery in London. The claim, from the family of a Jewish banker murdered by the Nazis, has caught the government on the hop, with no mechanism in place for the return of ... www.guardian.co.uk/uk/1999/jul/30/fiachragibbons1
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| 2000 | Aug 9, 2000 - He began his career as an exhibition organizer for the Arts Council and, at 24, was elected chairman of the Young Friends of the [Tate Millbank]. He resigned the latter post, however, after Tate trustees banned a new contemporary art gallery that he and the Friends had set up for ... pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/57745715.html?dids=57745715:57745715&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS: FT&type=current&date...Tate...Tate+Gallery...
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