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James Bolivar Manson
(1879 - 1945)
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Lived/Active: England
Known for: floral, landscape, still life and portrait painting, museum director
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James Bolivar Manson (26 June 1879, London – 3 July 1945, London)[1] was an artist and worked at the Tate Gallery* for 25 years, being its Director 1930–1938. 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 (showing 500 of 13380 characters). |
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