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- Tate Archive, Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms, Tate Britain, Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG, England, United Kingdom
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- Tuesday and Friday 11:00-15:00
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- All visits are by appointment only; please email the Reading Rooms. Same-day drop in appointments cannot be accommodated at this time. Registration, including proof of identity, is required; details will be supplied once an appointment has been made.
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- The reading rooms are accessible by wheelchair. If you have any specific access requirements, please contact the Tate ahead of your visit.
- Archival and Other Holdings
The Hyman Kreitman Reading Rooms house not only Tate Archive’s 1,000+ collections documenting fine art practice in the UK, but also Tate’s institutional records and Tate Library’s 300,000+ publications mirroring the collecting remit of Tate.
Tate Archive contains a wealth of material on artists, art world figures and art organisations in Britain from 1900 to the present day. We have over one million items including letters, writings, sketchbooks, artworks, audio-visual material, photographs, printed ephemera, and press cuttings.
List of Collections(View as Search Results)
- Administrative records of the London Group
- Barbara Hepworth's Sculpture Records comprising photographs and notes compiled by the sculptor
- Business papers and press cuttings relating to the International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers
- Business papers of the 7 & 5 Society
- Collection of photographs, drawings and correspondence relating to Peter Peri
- Correspondence and other papers relating to Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant and others
- Correspondence and papers of Paul Nash and his wife Margaret
- Correspondence concerning the disputes between Ian Hamilton Finlay and the Fulrum and Coracle Presses
- Correspondence from Dora Carrington to Margaret Waley. Robert Waley and Ralph Partridge and eleven photographs of Carrington
- Correspondence from Ian Hamilton Finlay to Stuart and Rosemary Mills, 1971-1979, three typescripts submitted to Stuart Mills as editor of 'Tarasque Magazine', 44 photographs taken by Stuart Mills c1969 of Ian Hamilton Finlay's house and garden at Stonypath, Lanark, and two typed sheets of questions which accompanied Finlay's poem 'Arcady'
- Correspondence of Sir Henry Tate
- Correspondence to Paul Nash from Edward Burra and Alexander Calder
- Correspondence, biographical notes and printed leaflets collected by Alfred Yockney
- Correspondence, notes and press-cuttings relating to Alfred Stevens and in particular to the controversy about the completion of the Wellington Memorial in St Paul's Cathedral
- Correspondence, writings, papers, photographs, printed material, and press cuttings of the English painter David Garshen Bomberg (1890-1957) and his second wife Lilian Bomberg, née Holt (1898-1983)
- Drawings and watercolours by Josef Herman
- Drawings, gouaches and watercolours by Frances Hodgkins
- Letters, papers, artworks, photographs and press cuttings on the painter and designer Alfred Wolmark
- Letters, papers, artworks, photographs and press cuttings on the painter (John) Christopher Wood
- Manuscripts and typescripts by Vanessa Bell and correspondence to and from Duncan Grant
- Material (mostly photocopied correspondence with artwork, printed ephemera and photographs) relating to Dora Carrington compiled by her brother, Noel Carrington and by her friend, David Garnett as source material for their respective publications (see citations below).
- Papers of Sir John Lavery (1856-1941)
- Papers of Barbara Reise
- Papers of Cecil and Elisabeth Collins
- Papers of Charles Harrison
- Papers of Edward Burra
- Papers of Francis Howard, painter, art critic and gallery director
- Papers of Kenneth Clark
- Papers of Peter Startup
- Papers of the Artists International Association
- Papers of the photographer Barbara Marcia Ker-Seymer
- The papers of Walter Sickert
- Papers relating to the 'Studio International' special edition on Ben Nicholson, June 1969
- The personal papers and artwork of Algernon Newton
- Personal papers of Kenneth Armitage
- Photocopied correspondence from or concerning Christopher 'Kit' Wood, and eleven photographs of his paintings
- Photograph albums and negatives by Vanessa Bell
- Photograph albums of sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi
- The Printmaking Archive of Naum Gabo
- The Records of the Artist Placement Group (APG)
- Records of the British Council Visual Arts Department
- Records of the Hanover Gallery
- The Records of the New English Art Club
- Scrapbooks, press cuttings books, artworks and photographs of the painter and print-maker Julian Otto Trevelyan (1910-1988)
- Seventy five drawings and sketchbooks by James Boswell
- Sketchbook by Stanley Spencer
- Studies and sketches for 'Making It' (T03783) by Julian Opie
- Study collection of 179 drawings and lithographs by Sir William Rothenstein 1896 - 1942
- Writings, artwork, correspondence, photographs and ephemera relating to Paul Nash.