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Missing History[edit]

What did the gallery display - apart from Guernica - between 1901 and 1956? AsparagusTips (talk) 11:51, 20 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Untitled[edit]

User talk:Comintern replaced the page with the following text. I have reverted the text for a number of reasons:

Not in wiki format
No sources, it may be cut and paste from another site (WP:VIO)
Not encyclopaedic (weasel words,, unreferenced, not wikilinked)

That's not to say that the article could not be improved by the addition of/correction with much of this text. Kbthompson 09:14, 20 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

‘The Whitechapel taught Britain to love Modern Art.’ The Guardian

The Whitechapel was founded in 1901 to bring great art to the people of East London. The Gallery is internationally acclaimed for its exhibitions of modern and contemporary art and its pioneering education and public events programmes.

The Whitechapel has premiered international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Nan Goldin, and provided a showcase for Britain’s most significant artists from Gilbert & George to Lucian Freud, Peter Doig to Mark Wallinger. The Gallery plays a unique role in the capital’s cultural landscape and is pivotal to the continued growth of East London as the world’s most vibrant contemporary art quarter.

The Whitechapel’s history is a history of firsts:

1939, Guernica, Picasso’s iconic depiction of the horrors of the Spanish civil war is displayed at the Whitechapel on its first and only visit to Britain.

1958, the first major show in Britain of seminal American abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock.

1961, British premiere of Mark Rothko – the installation of his work at the Whitechapel becomes his template for all subsequent shows.

1970 & 1971, first shows of British artists David Hockney, Gilbert & George and Richard Long.

1982, the Whitechapel introduces little-known Mexican painter, Frida Kahlo to London audiences.

1993, the Whitechapel showcases Lucien Freud, one of Britain’s greatest living figurative painters.

2001 & 2002, Liam Gillick and Nan Goldin stage their first major solo shows in the UK

The Whitechapel has curated groundbreaking group exhibitions ranging from the proto-pop art show This is Tomorrow of 1956 to the revisioning of modernism in the 2004 blockbuster, Faces in the Crowd

Since 1901 art has been presented alongside education. A not-for-profit educational charity, the Whitechapel has pioneered artists’ residencies in schools and other education innovations that have been adopted as models across the UK and internationally

The Whitechapel is entering the most exciting phase in its 100-year history: an ambitious £10.5 million expansion. By incorporating the former library building, the Gallery will double in size.

The Whitechapel Project will:

• Ensure the Whitechapel’s international reputation as a world-class centre of excellence for contemporary and modern art by increasing gallery space by 78%.

• Offer artists greater opportunities for professional development, research, exhibiting and making new work.

• Provide a platform for important private and public collections.

• Offer more opportunities for learning by trebling training and education space.

• Celebrate art’s hidden histories by animating the Gallery’s historically important archive.

• Bring light and life to East London through the year-round opening of a landmark cultural destination.

• Create prosperity in the local community by attracting more visitors each year.

Scottish art[edit]

--Johnsoniensis (talk) 16:38, 11 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]