TATE COLLECTION
WHOLE OF GALLERY OPEN AGAIN (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, February 27. For the first time since 1939 the whole of the Tate Gallery except the basement section is again open to the public. During the war nearly every room of the gallery was damaged by bombs, falling masonry, or shell splinters. This damage was repaired soon after the war, but until this week two of the 25 exhibition rooms had remained closed. The gallery is now divided evenly into a British and a modern French section. Four rooms are at present devoted to an exhibition of the work of an early English landscape painter, Richard Wilson. Sir Stafford Cripps, who opened the last two restored galleries, praised the work of the Tate trustees and said he hoped the Government wo.uld soon be able to increase its annual purchasing grant of £2060 a vear. Apart from this grant, nearly the whole of the Tate collection has been presented by private donors. The popularity of the Tate Gallery has steadily increased in recent years, and last year 887,000 people visited it, compared with a pre-war average of under 300,000.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25741, 1 March 1949, Page 5
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