Tate

TATE Gallery

• The Tate is an institution that houses the United Kingdom's national collection of British Art, and International Modern and Contemporary Art.

It is a network of four art museums Tate Britain, London (previously known as the Tate Gallery, 1897)

Tate Liverpool ( 1988)

Tate St Ives, Cornwall ( 1993)

Tate Modern, London ( 2000)

Interesting facts about TATE

• The gallery was founded in 1897, as the National Gallery of British Art. When its role was changed to 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

• More than 10 different collections were presented to TATE• Worldwide famous Turner Prize is held in TATE• Has it’s web-site, with the help of which you can enjoy

masterpieces on-line.

Turner. Tate London

Turner

Self-portrait

Peace-Burial-at-Sea

Castle-Sunrise

Boats-in-a-Gale

The Ship-wreck

The-Fighting-Temeraire

The Bay of Baiae, with Apollo and the Sibyl

Other masterpieces

great-day-of-his-wrath

Composition 6

Copley The-Victory of Lord Duncan