James Bolivar Manson
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James Bolivar Manson was an artist and worked at the Tate gallery for 25 years, including serving as its director from 1930 to 1938. In the Tate's own evaluation he was the "least successful" of their directors.
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James Bolivar Manson as Tate Director
Still Life: Tulips in a Blue Jug by J.B. Manson, c.1912
Lucien Pissarro Reading by J.B. Manson, est. 1913
Self-Portrait by J.B. Manson, c.1912
Still Life with Flowers by J.B. Manson, c.1919
Tate Britain in 2004 (renamed from Tate Gallery in 2000).
Hotel George V in Paris
Sculpture for the Blind by Constantin Brâncuși, c.1920, veined marble. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950.Artists from United Kingdom 6
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James Bolivar Manson was an artist and worked at the Tate gallery for 25 years, including serving as its director from 1930 to 1938. In the Tate's own evaluation he was the "least successful" of their directors. His time there was frustrated by his stymied ambition as a painter and he declined into alcoholism, culminating in a drunken outburst at an official dinner in Paris. Although his art policies were more advanced than previously at the Tate and embraced Impressionism, he stopped short of accepting newer artistic movements like Surrealism and German Expressionism, thus earning the scorn of critics such as Douglas Cooper. He retired on the grounds of ill health and resumed his career as a flower painter until his death.
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