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Bryan Robertson was an art director in the major league, like Alfred Barr of the Museum of Modern Art, and James Johnson Sweeney of the Guggenheim, Pontus Hulten at the Beaubourg, and Sir Nicholas Serota at the Tate.
Although Robertson never headed a major international gallery, the exhibitions he curated at the Whitechapel art gallery were highly influential. They included the first British one-man shows for Jackson Pollock (1958) and Mark Rothko (1961), and the exhibition This Is Tomorrow (1956), featuring Brits like Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton, whose collage Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing? was seized upon as the first manifestation of the pop art later taken over lock, stock and Lichtenstein by the Americans. (The Guardian)
