Decentralisation
Sir: Jo Grimond (Notebook, 5 February) says that the Tate Gallery has long exceeded its optimum size. He should, then, protest against the Clore Gallery (Turner Museum and Tate Gallery Expansion, as Architec- tural Design describes it), for which the foundation stone will be laid by the Queen Mother on 19 April.
This has nothing to do with improving the display of the Turners, which will re- main much the same, but a lot to do with the Tate's expansion, by vacating the space now occupied by the Turners for other pic- tures, and by creating the foundation of a third national collection of British water- colours in London. The cost of running and adding to this last might be more profitably spent elsewhere, perhaps in the Orkneys and Shetlands.
Dr Selby Whittingham
Hon Secretary, The Turner Society, 15 Cromwell Road, London SW5
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