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Sir Alan Bowness CBE (11 January 1928 – 1 March 2021) British art historian, art critic, director of the Tate Gallery between 1980 and 1988 has died age 93.
Bowness was active as an art critic in the late 1950s and early 1960s, writing for The Observer, Arts (New York), Art News and Review, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Burlington Magazine. He became a Regional Art Officer for the Arts Council in 1956, with responsibilities for the South West of England. In April that year, he visited St Ives, Cornwall, where he met artists who had settled there, including; Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, and Patrick Heron. In 1957, Bowness married Sarah Hepworth-Nicholson, daughter of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.
United-kingdomGermanyNew-yorkUnited-statesCounty-corkCorkIrelandMoroccoItalyBurlingtonDublinFranceThe 2007 Loan Agreement in relation to the Hugh Lane Bequest between the National Gallery London, Dublin City Council and the then Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht expired on 19 October 2019. (See Appendix for a short note on the history of the Hugh Lane Bequest.)
The Director of the National Gallery, London, Dr Gabriele Finaldi and the Director of the Hugh Lane Gallery (Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art), Dr Barbara Dawson negotiated a new Agreement on behalf of their respective Institutions to replace the previous Loan Agreement. It is intended to release details of the new Agreement to the media early today.
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