The art of J.M.W. Turner

Arts & Photography

Brown, David Blayney

History & Criticism

Headline

J.M.W. Turner is one of the greatest artists the world has ever known. His output was prolific and astonishingly varied. Focusing on 125 paintings and drawings from the Tate, which owns the world's largest collection of Turner's work, this lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and lively survey of his genius. Familiar masterpieces are reproduced along with less well-known prints and sheets from sketchbooks; subject matter ranges from landscapes and natural subjects to ancient and modern history; marine subjects; literary illustration; and images of contemporary life. In his essay, David Blayney Brown reveals the paradoxes and contrasts that abound in Turner's life and work: as a painter he looked both backward and forward, bridging the gap between the 18th century and modernism, compelled constantly to reexamine and reinvent his own art, with astonishing success.

Turner: In the Tate Collection

Individual Artists

Tate

Augustus Wall Callcott

Tate Gallery

Provides a portrait of Turner and an overview of his life, times, and work, including the influence of the Academy system of training, the Old Masters, and the landscapes of Britain and the continent

The Art of J.M.W. Turner

Wellfleet

A portrait of Turner and his art which places the man and his achievements in the broad social and cultural context of his period, and then uses this as a basis for a detailed assessment of his influence and artistic legacy. This is a new edition of the title originally published by Headline in 1990.

Turner, J.M.W.

Knickerbocker Pr

EY Exhibition: Late Turner - Painting Set Free

Tate Publishing

About the Author\nDavid Blayney Brown is senior curator of British art, 1790–1850, at Tate Britain and is responsible for the Turner Collection. His books include Turner and Byron, Turner in the Alps, The “Lucerne” Sketchbook, and Romanticism.\nFew can doubt that J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851) was the greatest exponent of British watercolor in its golden age. An inveterate traveler in search of the ideal vista, he rarely left home without a rolled-up, loose-bound sketchbook, pencils, and a small traveling case of watercolors in his pocket. He exploited as no one before him the medium’s luminosity and transparency, conjuring light effects on English meadows and Venetian lagoons and gauzy mists over mountains and lakes. Extraordinary in his own time, he has continued to thrill his countless admirers since. David Blayney Brown, one of the world’s leading experts on Turner, reveals the role watercolors played in Turner’s life and work, from those he sent for exhibition to the Royal Academy to the private outpourings in which he compulsively experimented with light and color, which for a modern audience are among his most radical and accomplished works.

Turner Watercolours

From Turner's Studio: Paintings and Oil Sketches from the Turner Bequest

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Tate Gallery Pubn

Drawing from the Tate Gallery's extensive collection of oil sketches, this book investigates Turner's approach to outdoor painting, and his open-air sketches. It does so in the context of works by Constable and other contemporaries of Turner.

Oil Sketches from Nature: Turner and His Contemporaries

Turner and Byron

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