Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?

Do Tate Galleries Have A Slavery Past?

The Tate issued a statement in 2019 to put to rest talk about the gallery founder and namesake Henry Tate’s involvement in slavery. First off, both Henry Tate and Abram Lyle (his partner) were respectively 12 and 14 when slavery was abolished in 1833. Both were...