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P O Rt R a I T Review 2000/2001 N AT I O N A L C o n t e n t s Trustees’ Fore w o rd 3 P O RT R A I T B o a rd of Tru s t e e s 3 G A L L E RY The Opening of the Ondaatje Wi n g 4 The Collections 4 The Galleries 6 REVIEW Photographs Collection 8 Heinz Archive and Library 9 2000/2001 C o n s e rv a t i o n 1 0 E x h i b i t i o n s 1 0 P a rtnerships outside London 1 4 Education 1 6 Vi s i t o r s 1 7 Tr a d i n g 1 8 Financial Report 2 1 Fundraising and Development 2 5 List of Acquisitions 2 9 S t a ff 4 0 3 TRUSTEES’ FOREWORD The year 2000 has been a memorable one in the Gallery’s history. From 4 May, the day B o a rd of Tru s t e e s of the Royal opening of the Ondaatje Wing, it was immediately evident that the new 2 0 0 0 – 2 0 0 1 H e n ry Keswick (Chairm a n ) wing would greatly increase the number of visitors coming to the Gallery, as well as The Rt. Hon. Marga r et Beckett, MP t r a n s f o rm their experience of it. Everyone has been impressed by the quality of the P rofessor David Cannadine building, awarded the Blueprint prize for the best public building refurbishment of the ( f rom December 2000) y e a r, and we were truly delighted that Christopher Ondaatje was awarded a CBE in Flora Fraser Mrs Tessa Gre e n recognition of his many charitable activities. The IT Gallery, including the Port r a i t Max Hastings E x p l o rer made possible by the Wo o d w a rd Charitable Trust, has demonstrated our P rofessor Ludmilla Jordanova commitment to making the collection accessible to visitors through the latest ( f rom December 2000) P rofessor Philip King, CBE, PRA t o u c h s c reen technology. The new Tudor Gallery, jointly funded by the Wo l f s o n The Lord Morris of Castle Morris, Foundation and the Drue Heinz Trust, has made the Tudor portraits come alive, lit by D.Phil. (Deputy Chairm a n ) the latest fib re-optic lighting and displayed against a backdrop of grey military overc o a t Tom Phillips, RA P rofessor The Earl Russell, FBA material. And The Portrait Restaurant, run for us by Searcy’s, is described by the G o o d Sir David Scholey, CBE Food Guide as ‘exactly the sort of restaurant one ought to find in a gallery or museum’. Alexandra Shulman C l a i re Tomalin, FRSL Alongside the new building, there have been other achievements. In May, as well as John Tusa (until November 2000) opening the new wing, we began to open the Gallery two evenings a week. In August Sir John Weston, KCMG we unveiled a new portrait of the Royal family by John Wonnacott in honour of H.M. Ba r oness Willoughby de Eres b y , DL Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother’s hundredth birt h d a y. In October we opened a major centennial exhibition, Painting the Century, consisting of 101 portraits from all over the world to mark each year of the century. This exhibition was a huge credit to our chief curator, Robin Gibson, who after thirt y - t h ree years at the Gallery took early re t i rement in January. He will be greatly missed by us all. In March we celebrated the fact that we had 1,219,167 visitors in the year, an increase of 22.32% on 1999. M o re o v e r, our activities have not been confined to London. We are in the process of planning the renovation of our displays at Bodelwyddan Castle in North Wales. Our exhibition Tête-à-Tête: Portraits by Henri Cart i e r - B re s s o n has toured Australia. During the autumn the best of our twentieth-century portraits were exhibited in the National P o rtrait Gallery in Canberra. In March our Snowdon exhibition opened at the Kunsthaus in Vienna. And our website now has more than a million hits a year. We are delighted by the announcement of a change in VAT exemption in the budget. But, as with all other museums, our funding remains tight. In spite of the incre a s e d A page from the Gallery ’ s operating expenses for a much enlarged building open to the public for longer hours, our website, showing the map of its activities throughout the country grant-in-aid has remained fixed for many years with only a small incremental increase of less than 5% over five years for inflation. At the same time, over the last five years we have i n c reased our net self-generated income from 21% of grant-in-aid to 37%. With a possible slowdown of business looming, the climate for exhibition sponsorship re m a i n s challenging. We are, there f o re, ever more grateful to the individuals, companies, tru s t s and foundations who give the Gallery their support, as well as to the Trustees for their unpaid work. o p p o s i t e Patrick Heron, S e l f - p o rt r a i t, 1951 (© the Heron Estate) H e n ry Keswick a c q u i red with assistance from the C h a i rman of the Board of Tru s t e e s National Art Collections Fu n d 4 5 THE OPENING OF THE ONDAATJE WING The Ondaatje Wing was opened on Thursday 4 May 2000 by HM The Queen, Other completed commissions include a silvered head of the architect Lord Foster by the accompanied by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. On arriving at the Gallery they were met sculptor John Davies, a painting of Lord Wolfson by Andrew Festing and, breaking new by the Chairman and Director and escorted to the Main Hall, where the guests were g round in terms both of his own work and the Gallery’s collection, Tom Phillips’s a l ready assembled. These included the Rt. Hon. Chris Smith, Secre t a ry of State for e l e c t ronic portrait of the neuro-scientist Susan Gre e n field, the first female director of the C u l t u re, Media and Sp o rt, the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of We s t m i n s t e r, Royal Institution. Given its first airing in the Gallery’s exhibition D e fining Feature s : re p resentatives of the Heritage Lottery Fund, the major donors, the architects (Sir S c i e n t i fic and Medical Portraits 1660–2000, the portrait is made up of drawings and short J e remy Dixon and Edward Jones) and the Gallery’s Trustees. Following the intro d u c t o ry sections of video which have been computer- p rocessed to create a continually changing a d d ress by Henry Keswick, both the Secre t a ry of State and HM The Queen made short image shown on a scre e n . speeches. The Royal party then met key re p resentatives of the building project before Exhibitions also provided the context for the acquisition of numerous photographs p roceeding to the Balcony Gallery. There they were introduced to some of the sitters and including over a hundred works by Lord Snowdon, many of them generously given by a rtists whose portraits are on display, among them Baroness Thatcher, Zandra the photographer. Rhodes, Maggi Hambling and Sir Edward Heath. The tour continued t h rough the Tudor Gallery and then on to tea in The Portrait Restaurant The Gallery has benefited from the generosity of the National Art Collections Fund in w h e re, in a more informal atmosphere, the Royal party met other guests contributing towards the purchase of Patrick Heron’s 1951 self-portrait. This beautiful including the Director and Chairman of the National Gallery, some of semi-cubist head-and-shoulders is close in date and style to Heron’s portraits of T. S . S e a rcy’s catering management and a number of the Gallery’s own staff. The Eliot (1949) and Herbert Read (1950), already in the collection. Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh also had the opportunity to meet other Other modern acquisitions include the bequest from the sitter of a portrait of André G a l l e ry staff throughout their depart u re route, and on leaving the Gallery Deutsch by Leonard Rosoman, a gift from the sitter’s widow of a drawing by Hans Ern i Her Majesty was presented with a bouquet by Pippa Bailey. The dancer Adam Cooper (left) of the trumpet player Philip Jones, and the purchase of two exquisite, tiny portraits of and the actor John Hurt On the two evenings prior to the Royal opening, the Gallery hosted the actor John Hurt and the dancer Adam Cooper by Stuart Pearson Wright, winner of with their portraits by Stuart Pearson Wr i g h t receptions throughout the new wing. The first evening, for staff and the BP Travel Aw a rd 1999.
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