Sir Lawrence GowingPortrait of Sir Norman Reid 1980

T03208 PORTRAIT OF SIR NORMAN REID 1980

Not inscribed
Oil on canvas, 26 × 17 3/4 (66 × 44.2)
Presented by the Trustees of the Tate Gallery 1981

Exh: Lawrence Gowing, Serpentine Gallery, March–April 1983 (163)

Sir Norman Reid, DA (Edinburgh), FMA, FIIC (b.1915) was Director of the Tate Gallery from 1 October 1964 until 31 December 1979. He studied at the Edinburgh College of Art 1933–7 as the first Andrew Grant Scholar and then for a postgraduate year 1937–38, and travelled through Europe 1938–9. He and a fellow student Jean Bertram were married in 1941. During the Second World War he served in the army 1939–46, attaining the rank of major in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He joined the staff of the Tate Gallery on 3 October 1946, and was appointed Deputy Director in 1954 and Keeper in 1959. He was made an Honorary D.Litt… (read more)