Learn about JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
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- Overviews of Turner
- The Life of Turner
- JMW Turner on Wikipedia
- BOOKS: Biographies of Turner
- Turner Collection Exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, London
- JMW Turner - Turner and the Romance of Britain
- Exhibitions of work by J M W Turner - outside the Tate
- Turner at the Tate
- Turner Collection Highlights - by decade and theme
- JMW Turner - in Art Galleries and Museums
- BOOKS: About Turner's work
- Turner - websites and online galleries
- Buy books from Museum Shops
- Suggested Further Reading
- VIDEOS: Turner on YouTube
- Ruskin on Turner
- Watercolour techniques
- "The Fighting Temeraire" on Wikipedia
- Articles and reviews about Turner and his work
- "The Slave Ship" on Wikipedia
- Making A Mark - posts about Turner
- Comments and Suggestions
Overviews of Turner
- handprint : joseph mallord william turner
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) is considered England's greatest painter.
- Joseph Mallord William Turner - Biography, life and works
- JMW Turner Biography - The life and works of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), a complete analysis of the most famous works by the greatest British painter of all time
- The Victorian Web: J. M. W. Turner: An Overview
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851): An Overview
* Turner and the sister arts
* Turner's Lectures on the Arts
* Ruskin on Turner's Isolation
* Ruskin on Turner's Color
* Ruskin on Turner's "palpitating, perpetual change"
* Turner, Wordsworth, and the Sublime
* Turner and the Picturesque
* Turner and Pathetic Fallacy
* Ruskin's allegorical interpretations of Turner
Plus discussion of individual paintings
The Life of Turner
He was born in Covent Garden and latterly had a home in Chelsea. He spent much time living in taverns, where he was well known for his truculence and his stinginess with money. He preferred anonymity and lived under an assumed name at times.
He had a cockney accent and spoke the language of the streets. Turner could be coarse and rude, manipulative, ill-mannered, and inarticulate but he could also be generous and humane.
Displaying his artistic abilities as a young child, Turner entered the Royal Academy of Arts when he was just fourteen years old. A year later his paintings appeared in an important public exhibition, and he rapidly achieved prominence, becoming a Royal Academician in 1802 and Professor of Perspective at the Academy from 1807-1837.
He was known for his entrepreneurial cunning, demanding and receiving the highest prices for his work. In time he achieved great wealth.
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Biography
- Turner's professional training and career
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Biography
- Turner's Travels - Turner travelled frequently and far afield in search of material. By the time he was in his early twenties, he had established a pattern of working and travelling that was to continue throughout most of his working life: touring, sketching and collecting information in the summer, and then returning home to work up finished pictures during the winter.
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Biography
- Turner's patrons - Despite Turner's working class background, he seems to have attracted a series of wealthy, aristocratic patrons, several of whom treated him as a friend and welcomed him into their homes.
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Biography
- Turner's personal life
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Biography
- Turner's reputation
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Timeline
- A timeline for Turner
- The Turner Museum (online fan site) - History of Turner
- Biographical Sketch
Multiple Genius Joseph Mallord William Turner
JMW Turner on Wikipedia
Joseph Mallord William Turner RA (23 April 1775Exact date disputed - 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting."At the turn of the 18th century, history painting was the highest purpose art could serve, and Turner would attempt those heights all his life. But his real achievement would be to make landscape the equal of history painting." Lacayo, Richard, The Sunshine Boy, TIME Magazine, 11 October 2007. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1670528,00.html] Although renowned for his oil paintings, Turner is also one of the greatest masters of British watercolour landscape painting. He is commonly known as "the painter of light"Turner, Joseph Mallord William National Gallery, London and is often seen as a Romantic preface to Impressionism.
BOOKS: Biographies of Turner
Books on Amazon
Turner in His Time, Revised and Updated Edition
Andrew Wilton was the first Curator of the Clore Gallery for the Turner Collection at Tate Britain, London, and is the author of many works on the artist, including the standard catalogue of the watercolors.
Andrew Wilton's knowledge and enthusiasm uniquely qualify him to introduce us to the artist's life, and he concentrates here on original sources: Turner's writings, in the form of letters, notes, and verse; impressions recorded by his contemporaries; and reviews of his exhibited works. A comprehensive illustrated chronology covers Turner's travels, exhibitions, and projects, and includes portraits of his friends and patrons, views of places with which he was associated, and works by other artists who played a crucial role in forming his style and
Revised and updated edition
- Now with color illustrations throughout (200 illustrations total, 150 in color)
- Forty-four works are new to the book
- Includes a recently discovered watercolor
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Turner
Over the course of sixty years, Turner traveled thousands of miles to seek out the landscapes of England and Europe. He was drawn overwhelmingly to coasts, to the electrifying rub of the land with the sea, and he regularly observed their union from the cliff, the beach, the pier, or from a small boat. Fueled by his prodigious talent, Turner revealed to himself and others the personality of the British and European landscapes and the moods of the surrounding seas. He kept no diary, but his many sketchbooks are intensely autobiographical, giving clues to his techniques, his itineraries, his income and expenditures, and his struggle to master the theories of perspective.
In Turner, James Hamilton takes advantage of new material discovered since the 1975 bicentennial celebration of the artist's birth, paying particular attention to the diary of sketches with which Turner narrated his life. Hamilton's textured portrait is fully complemented by a sixteen-page illustrations insert, including many color reproductions of Turner's most famous landscape paintings. Seamlessly blending vibrant biography with astute art criticism, Hamilton writes with energy, style, and erudition to address the contradictions of this great artist.
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Turner: Life and Landscape (Discoveries)
This concise and highly informative book provides an overview of Turner's career, presenting a selection of the artist's most significant and appealing watercolors, paintings, and drawings.
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J.M.W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Lives
In this second volume in the Ackroyd's Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.
Peter Ackroyd deftly follows Turner's first loves of architecture, engraving, and watercolours, and the country houses, cathedrals, and landscapes of England. While his passion for Italy led him to oil painting, Turner's love for London remained central to his heart and soul, and it was within sight of his beloved Thames that he died in 1851. His dying words were: "The sun is God."
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Standing in the Sun
For this new biography, the first comprehensive narrative of Turner's life in a generation, Anthony Bailey has searched through the archives, studied the scholarly literature, made use of much research done in the last thirty years, and looked at almost all of Turner's sketchbooks as well as many of his paintings and watercolors. He has uncovered fresh material and put together other facts, previously known, to shed new light on those complicated and secretive man.
Anthony Bailey has set out to write a biography of the man, not a book about his paintings, and J.M.W. Turner comes vividly to life in theses pages. Both reclusive and gregarious, private and vainglorious, tough and vulnerable, a long-tern bachelor who fathered two daughters, Turner was full of contradictions, and Anthony Bailey rises masterfully to the challenge of describing them here.
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Turner Collection Exhibitions at the Tate Gallery, London
There is arguably no greater insight into the working techniques of a great artist than the unique collection that is the Turner Bequest, the contents of the studio of J.M.W Turner, bequeathed to the nation after his death in 1851.
In addition to finished oil paintings and watercolours, the Bequest includes approximately 37,000 drawings and watercolours ranging from fully worked-up studies to the scrappiest sheet recalling the briefest touch of the artist's hand. Whether complex design or cursory doodle, the Bequest as a whole represents a rich, visual record of a lifetime's endeavour.
- Tate Britain Collection: Introducing Turner
- This biographical introduction examines Turner's reputation among artists and critics, and how this was conveyed in pictures and accounts made both during his lifetime and posthumously.
- Tate Britain Collection: Hockney on Turner
- David Hockney, presents his own selection of Turner's unique colour studies or 'beginnings' and also provides commentary on the artist's techniques.
- Tate Britain Collection Turner at Home and Abroad
- The end in 1815 of the long wars between Britain and France meant that for the first time in a generation, artists could travel freely on the continent.
Turner was the most prolific artistic traveller of the time, seeking inspiration in the imposing landscapes along the Rhine in Germany (1817), and among the antiquities of Rome and the vivid sights of Venice (1819).
During the 1820s Turner produced a succession of watercolour series representing the British landscape, drawing attention to the maritime economy, agriculture and historic monuments. - Tate Britain Collection: Turner - the Annual Tourist
- The inspiration and source material for much of this work came from an annual sketching tour, a habit Turner had established early in his career. He had always been an intrepid traveller and his advancing years did nothing to limit his energies. Between 1830 and 1839 he travelled to the Midlands, Scotland, France, Switzerland and the Alps, Belgium, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg.
- Tate Britain Collection: Turner - Master and Magician - the late work
- In 1840 Turner was sixty-%uFB01ve. Rather than slowing down, his last decade proved to be a fertile period of renewed experimentation, during which he created countless watercolours that seem, even today, effortless and daring. For the most part, he was painting purely for himself: playing expressively with colour; or developing an image only as far as it interested him.
- Tate Britain Collection : Turner - Nature and the Ideal
- Mainland Europe was inaccessible until Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo in 1815, so England's landscape, particularly the coast and its inhabitants, took on a heightened signi%uFB01cance for Turner as he constantly travelled and sketched to satisfy the demand for his paintings, watercolours and prints.
- Tate Collection | Turner Collection | Sketchbooks
- Turner Collection: Sketchbooks
Turner's sketchbooks have been divided into different decades and can be viewed as digital facsimile copies online. 300 sketchbooks are divided into decades - Tate Collection | JMW Turner: The Three Rigis 22 January - 25 March 2007
- Tate brings together for the first time ever three of JMW Turner's very greatest watercolour paintings: The Blue Rigi, The Dark Rigi and The Red Rigi.
Turner's groundbreaking use of watercolour, which spanned his career, culminated in the early 1840s with a series of transcendent views of Swiss lakes and mountains. Chief among these are the three views of Mount Rigi as seen from Lake Lucerne. Each shows the mountain at a different time of day and is characterised by a defining colour or tone: dark, blue or red. - Tate Collection | Norham Castle, Sunrise: From Incomprehension to Icon 13 November 2006 - 18 February 2007
- Turner's painting, Norham Castle, Sunrise, and a group of twenty-one previously unknown, and essentially 'unfinished', canvases were the focal point of a new Turner room inaugurated at the Tate Gallery (now Tate Britain) in February 1906.
These pictures had entered to the national collection in 1856, but remained uncatalogued. This was chiefly due to a lack of adequate hanging space for the many oil paintings in the collection. But a bigger issue was the concern that the images would not be properly understood by the public. Gallery officials themselves had serious reservations, considering them only 'rude beginnings' or even 'mere botches'. - Tate Collection | Drawing from Turner 6 November 2006 - 20 May 2007
- The Drawing from Turner project sought to revitalise the tradition of copying from another artist's work in order to gain insight and understanding.
The fifty-eight artists participating in the Drawing from Turner project were able to choose from a representative group of thirty-five drawings chosen from amongst the thousands available in the Bequest. - Tate Britain | Turner Whistler Monet 10 February - 15 May 2005
- JMW Turner, James McNeill Whistler and Claude Monet each changed the course of landscape painting. Whistler and Monet were friends and both initially acknowledged the profound influence of Turner, adopting and working their own variations on themes developed by their artistic predecessor. Turners atmospheric effects gave rise to Whistlers Thames Nocturnes, and both Turner and Whistler informed Monets revolutionary paintings that went on to inspire the term Impressionism.
This exceptional exhibition focuses on views of the River Thames, the Seine and the city and lagoon of Venice a rare opportunity to see works which were highly controversial in their own day but are now seen as some of the most poetic and evocative images ever produced. - Tate Britain | Turner and Venice 9 October 2003 - 11 January 2004
- This show brought together for the very first time Turner's oil paintings, watercolours, prints and sketchbooks of work relating to Venice. For those of who saw it was an unforgettable experience
- Tate Collection | Teachers pack (pdf file) for the Turner in venice Exhibition
- This provides a lot mor detail about Turner and his travels to Venice and places it within the context of why people travel to paint and the historical context.
- Tate International | Turner: Reflections of Sea and Light
- The sea was the subject that, more than any other, preoccupied Turner throughout his career. He recorded all its various moods, whether tranquil or stormy.
This exhibition was shown in the USA, Spain and Portugal - Tate Collection |Vanishing Point: The Perspective Drawings of JMW Turner (Tate Britain) 24 May - 7 November 2004
- For thirty years (1807-1837) Turner was Professor of Perspective at the Royal Academy and the drawings he created to illustrate his lectures look quite unlike other works by him. Primarily rendered in bold strokes of red and black watercolour, with text often scrawled above or below the diagram, some of the pieces are more reminiscent of early twentieth century Constructivist works than Turner watercolours. Turner gave six lectures annually on the principles of linear and aerial perspective and sought to teach his students both the theory and practice of the discipline. He produced about 180 perspective drawings in all, now part of the Turner Bequest housed at Tate Britain.
- Tate St Ives | Light into Colour - Turner in the South West 28 January - 7 May 2006
- Turner toured Devon and Cornwall in 1811, returning to Devon in 1813 and 1814. The work produced in Cornwall and West Devon occurred at an important stage in Turner's development.
The exhibition includes examples of Turner's work in all media (oil paintings, oil sketches, watercolours, pencil sketches and notebooks), providing spectators with a rounded exposure to his different working methods. In reuniting sketches with finished work it will be possible to enter into Turner's creative development of observed reality as it becomes a suitable subject for a finished picture. - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights
- Tate - Turner Collection Highlights
The Tate has the largest collection of works by J M W Turner in the world. These selections have been assembled by the Tate's Turner experts to highlight some of the key works and interest - Tate Britain - Turner and the Masters 23 September - 31 January 2009
- Rivalry, obsession, jealousy... the story of Turner's battle to outdo all other artists.
This unforgettable show places beautiful masterpieces by Canaletto, Rubens, Rembrandt and Titian next to some of JMW Turner's most dramatic paintings. It shines light on a lesser-known side of the British Romantic painter: his obsession to prove he was just as good, if not better, than the old masters who he so admired.
The queue for the Turner Whistler Monet Exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris, October 2004
JMW Turner - Turner and the Romance of Britain
videos by the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Simon Schama, Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Exhibitions of work by J M W Turner - outside the Tate
- National Gallery of Art, Washington: J. M. W. Turner Exhibition (2007)
- Over the last seven years, The Tate Gallery in London has worked with three US galleries to realise the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the works of JMW Turner ever staged in North America.
This will also be seen at
- the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1 October 2007 - 6 January 2008),
- the Dallas Museum of Art (10 February - 18 May 2008),
- and, finally, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (24 June - 21 September 2008). - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: J. M. W. Turner (2008)
- The first retrospective of the work of J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) presented in the United States in more than forty years, this international exhibition highlights approximately 140 paintings and watercolors-more than half of them from Tate Britain's Turner Bequest-along with works from other collections in Europe and North America. The artist's extensive iconographic range is represented, from seascapes and topographical views to historical subjects and scenes from his imagination.
Accompanied by a catalogue. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: J. M. W. Turner
- More About the Exhibition
This exhibition features many of the remarkable canvases that Turner exhibited at the Royal Academy in London-works that established his reputation-from his first exhibited oil, Fishermen at Sea (1796, Tate), to the luminous The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons (1835, Philadelphia Museum of Art). The iconic Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812, Tate) is on view in the United States for the first time during this exhibition tour. Also included are the artist's "color beginnings," or watercolor studies for subsequently developed images, along with his finished watercolors. The exhibition is organized both thematically and chronologically, beginning with his earliest Sublime and historical landscapes and culminating with his late seascapes and light-filled canvases. - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Special Exhibitions: J. M. W. Turner
- Exhibition Images
- Liverpool museums - Turner's Journeys of the Imagination
- Turner's Journeys of the Imagination
Walker Art Gallery
24 May - 4 August 2002
Turner's Journeys of the Imagination features Merseyside's most important works by the renowned landscape painter Joseph Mallord Willliam Turner (1775-1851). The exhibition celebrates the birth of domestic tourism and its influence on his art. - National Galleries of Scotland - Turner in January | The Vaughan Bequest
- Welcome the New Year with a wonderful Scottish tradition: the annual display of Turner watercolours.
These works, bequeathed by Henry Vaughan, span Turner's long career, from his early topographical wash drawings to the atmospheric sketches of continental Europe from the 1830s and '40s. Vaughan stipulated in his bequest that these delicate watercolours should only be shown in January when natural daylight is at its weakest, so they will not fade. This limited exposure has resulted in the works retaining their natural brilliance and luminous colours.
National Galleries of Scotland is comprised of the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Dean Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. - IHT: Parallel processions, but the case for 'influence' is not made : Turner, Whistler and Monet - International Herald Tribune
- Parallel processions, but the case for 'influence' is not made : Turner, Whistler and Monet
By Souren Melikian
Published: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2004
PARIS: What is it that makes some artists appear to move in the same direction while creating works evidently far apart? The question will haunt many visitors as they walk through the marvelous "Turner, Whistler, Monet" show at the Grand Palais here until Jan. 17, before moving on to London and reopening at the Tate on Feb. 10. - The Art History Blog - In the Vortex of Turner
- A few weeks ago, I had the great fortune of being able to attend not one, but two members-only events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City%u2026 and now I'll bring them to you! These events, an opening and a Saturday morning lecture, were in conjunction with the Met's newest exhibition, titled simply J. M. W. Turner.
- Two Coats of Paint: J.M.W. Turner's poetic visualization of British history
- Maintained by Sharon L. Butler, Two Coats of Paint is a digest of reviews, commentary, and background information about painting and related subjects.
Turner has arrived in New York. In The New Yorker, back in September, when the exhibition was opening at the National Gallery, Simon Schama wrote an engaging article about Turner's critical reception during his own time. - International Herald Tribune - J. M. W. Turner: A storm-tossed visionary of light - International Herald Tribune
- J. M. W. Turner: A storm-tossed visionary of light
By Roberta Smith Published: July 4, 2008
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's "J. M. W. Turner" is a beast of a show. With nearly 150 works in oil and watercolor spanning more than half a century, it will either win you over or wear you out. Or it will alternate, gallery by gallery, or wall by wall, as the art swings between overblown and moving, inspired and mechanical. - Bloomberg
- Bloated Turner Show Arrives at Met Museum in Blaze of Colors
Review by Linda Yablonsky - The New Yorker - The Talk of the Town: Turner's Emissary: The New Yorker
- Turner's Emissary
by Calvin Tomkins and Geoffrey T. Hellman April 2, 1966
Turner at the Tate
- Tate Britain: Turner Online
- Turner Online - the website dedicated to Turner at the Tate Gallery - home of the Turner Bequest
- Tate Britain: Turner Online | Turner's Gallery
- You can experience what it might have been like to visit Turner's Gallery, by entering its 3D recreation. (Please be patient as this panorama may take a while to load.)
- Tate Britain | Turner Prize
- The Turner Prize is a result of the Turner Bequest.
Turner Collection Highlights - by decade and theme
- Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights | Decade 1800-1810
- Turner Collection Highlights - Decade 1800-1810
List of Works - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights
- Turner Collection Highlights
The Tate has the largest collection of works by J M W Turner in the world. These selections have been assembled by the Tate's Turner experts to highlight some of the key works and interest - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights | Popular Themes: Sunsets/Sunrises
- Turner Collection Highlights - Popular Themes: Sunsets/Sunrises
21 Works - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights | Related Works
- Turner Collection Highlights - Related Works
4 Works - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights | Turner General Highlights
- Turner Collection Highlights - Turner General Highlights
16 Works - Tate Collection | Collection Highlights | Turner Collection Highlights | Watercolours produced for engraved series: Rogers's Italy
- Turner Collection Highlights - Watercolours produced for engraved series: Rogers's Italy
20 Works - Tate Collection | Turner Collection | Oil paintings
- Turner Collection - Oil paintings
507 Works - Tate Britain | Collection Displays - Landscape and Nation - Turner's Britain (Room T5)
- Landscape and Nation - Turner's Britain (Room T5)
Turner ranged ever further on annual summer tours - to Bristol (1791), Wales, the Midlands, the north of England, and Scotland (1801). From careful pencil studies in his sketchbooks he developed watercolours and paintings for commissions and the Royal Academy exhibition each spring. - Tate Britain | Collection Displays - Turner Abroad (Room T8)
- Turner Abroad (Room T8)
Turner made more than twenty tours abroad, travelling to France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and as far afield as the present-day Czech Republic. Travel afforded Turner a wealth of views which he recorded in sketchbooks to recall authentic topographical details. These continental tours also stimulated his imagination, and provided the inspiration for historical and poetical subjects, as well as evocative landscape views.
JMW Turner - in Art Galleries and Museums
Items in permanent collections
- Tate Collection | Turner Collection | Turner Worldwide
- Turner Worldwide brings together online over 2,000 works by Turner held in public and private collections.
Turner Worldwide brings together online over 2,000 works by Turner held in public and private collections around the world. The project provides online access to these works alongside Tate's own Turner holdings, creating a comprehensive online catalogue and rich central resource of information about Turner's works outside Tate.
Turner Worldwide is an ongoing project of the Tate. It includes records for oil paintings, watercolours and drawings and aims to provide colour images for as many as possible through partnerships with other institutions and private collectors. - Tate Collection | Turner Collection | Turner Worldwide | Works held in public institutions
- Turner Worldwide - works in public institutions
Works by Joseph Mallord William Turner held in public institutions in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Soth Africa, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States - National Gallery, London - TURNER, Joseph Mallord William
- Short bio and links to paintings in the National Gallery Collection
- National Gallery of Art, Washington - J. M. W. Turner
- Click on an image in the the gallery for a larger view.
- National Gallery of Art-J.M.W. Turner
- NGA-J.M.W. Turner Exhibition
This exhibition is no longer on view at the National Gallery. Please follow the links on this site for related online resources - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works by Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Works of Art in the Permanent Collection
- Turner in the National Galleries of Scotland - Permanent Collection
- Works by Joseph Willim Mallord Turner
National Galleries of Scotland is comprised of the National Gallery of Scotland, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, the Dean Gallery and the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. - Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge - Ruskin's Turners
- In 1861, the Museum's collection of watercolours and drawings was transformed by the gift of twenty-five watercolours by J.M.W.Turner from the writer and critic John Ruskin, Turner's most fervent champion and critic.
- National Gallery of Art, Washintgon - work by Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Artist Joseph Mallord William Turner British, 1775 - 1851
BOOKS: About Turner's work
books on Amazon
Turner - websites and online galleries
- The Turner Museum - online fan site
- Turner JMW - Father of the Impressionists
- WebMuseum: Turner, Joseph Mallord William
- Turner, John Mallord William (1775-1851). One of the finest landscape artists was J.M.W. Turner, whose work was exhibited when he was still a teenager. His entire life was devoted to his art. Unlike many artists of his era, he was successful throughout his career.
- ARC :: Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) :: Page 1 of 14
- Joseph Mallord William Turner (b.1775-d.1851). Art-works featured on this page include: The Brunig Pass, from Meringen,Heidelberg,Brunnen, from the Lake of Lucerne,Rain, Steam and Speed - The Great Western Railway,Approach to Venice,Peace - Burial at Sea,Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth
- The Artchive - Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Joseph Mallord William Turner images and biography
- Artcyclopedia | Joseph Mallord William Turner Online
- Joseph Mallord William Turner [English Romantic Painter, 1775-1851]
This site provides a comprehensive guide to pictures of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner in art museum sites and image archives worldwide - plus links to same. - William Turner - Olga's Gallery
- Olga's gallery is one of the largest online painting museums. New exhibits daily. Biographies and main works of many famous artists. Excellent quality of reproductions. Historical comments.
- J. M. W. Turner - Wikimedia Commons
- J. M. W. Turner From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
J. M. W. Turner (1775-1851) was a British Romantic painter.
Contents - images of paintings in the following categories
1 See also Category:Joseph Mallord William Turner
2 Portraits
3 Early works
4 Great Britain
5 Germany and Switzerland
6 Italy6.1 Rome
6.2 Naples
6.3 Venice
7 Switzerland - DCMS | GAC JMW Turner in the Government Art Collection
- JMW Turner in the Government Art Collection
Buy books from Museum Shops
- National Galleries of Scotland - J.M.W. Turner The Vaughan Bequest by Christopher Baker
- 120pp | Paperback | 60 colour illustrations £9.95
This new, richly illustrated book, provides an authoritative commentary on the watercolours, taking account of recent research, and addressing questions of technique and function, as well as considering some of the numerous contacts Turner had with other artists, collectors and dealers. - Hockney on Turner Watercolours at Tate Online Shop
- 48pp, 165 x 230mm, 28 colour illustrations
Published by Tate Media
Paperback ISBN 978 1 85437 783 8
Suggested Further Reading
- Tate Collection | Suggested further reading - Light into Colour Turner in the South West
- Concerns Turner's sketches and paintings of England and in particular the South West
Ruskin on Turner
John Ruskin, 1840
Watercolour techniques
- handprint : joseph mallord william turner
- Turner's watercolour techniques
"The Fighting Temeraire" on Wikipedia
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be broken up is an oil painting executed in 1838 by the English artist J. M. W. Turner (c.1775?1851).
It depicts one of the last second-rate ships of the line which played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, the 98-gun ship HMS Temeraire, being towed towards its final berth in East London in 1838 to be broken up for scrap.
The painting hangs in the National Gallery, London, having been bequeathed to the nation by the artist in 1851.
Articles and reviews about Turner and his work
- The Turner surprise by A A Gill - Times Online
- The Turner surprise
The famously outspoken David Hockney is at it again - he loves smoking, hates Gordon Brown and says that the government is waging a war on our freedom. Between puffs, he explains why he is equally passionate about J M W Turner, Britain's greatest artist - Why Turner's too bright for The New Yorker | Art & architecture | guardian.co.uk
- Jonathan Jones says
New York might not understand him, but the Met's new Turner exhibition only highlights the artist's brilliance - J. M. W. Turner - ARTINFO.com
- September 18, 2008
ARTIST DOSSIER
J. M. W. Turner By Colin Gleadell Published: September 1, 2008 - Roz Wound Up: Productivity: J. M. W. Turner
- I've been reading about Turner (British painter born in 1775, loose watercolors, man Ruskin turned into a household word, that Turner, Joseph Mallord William Turner, who died in 1851).
Seems he did 1,600 watercolors, almost 600 oil paintings, and over 19,000 colour studies, sketches and unfinished watercolours (let's stick with the British spelling).
If you do the math (and I didn't, I had to hire out for that) it means that he was doing roughly 3 colour studies (including sketches and unfinished watercolours) a day! It also means that each week he was completing a watercolour (and most of these are pretty large). On top of this he was completing one oil painting a month (these were also often very, very large, measurable in square feet). - Dorothy Koppelman, Aesthetic Realism Consultant, on Joseph Mallord William Turner
- Light and Dark, Hiding and Showing in
Joseph Mallord William Turner
By Dorothy Koppelman - Guardian - JMW Turner: a Master and the myths (21.09.09)
- As Tate Britain prepares to launch its most ambitious Turner exhibition to date, Maev Kennedy takes a look at the man who enraged, enthralled and bewildered his contemporaries
- Daily Telegraph - JMW Turner: the man behind the masterpieces (21.09.09)
- Tate Britain launches a major new retrospective of JMW Turner and Martin Gayford comments on the man behind the art
- J. M. W. Turner: the making of a Young Master at Tate Britain - Times Online
- Just as Wagner's music was once said to be better than it sounded, some have
long suspected that Turner's paintings were even bet - BBC - Today - Painting the competitive streak
- Philippa Simpson explains the fierce rivalry between artists JMW Turner and John Constable
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"The Slave Ship" on Wikipedia
"The Slave Ship" or "Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying ? Typhon coming on"English spelling of typhoon in 1840. [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?workid=72888&searchid=9637][http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/walker/] is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner of a slave ship, first exhibited in 1840.
The subject of the painting is the practice of 18th century slave traders who would throw the dead and dying human 'cargo' overboard during the middle passage in the Atlantic Ocean in order that they might claim the insurance for 'drowning'. Turner was inspired by two sources: by the Zong Massacre of slaves,http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=31102 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA website. and by lines from James Thomson's The Seasons: James Thomson, 'The Seasons' ed. James Sambrook (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981) p.353.
::Increasing still the Terrors of these Storms,
::His Jaws horrific arm'd with threefold Fate,
::Here dwells the direful Shark. Lur'd by the Scent
::Of steaming Crowds, of rank Disease, and Death,
::Behold! he rushing cuts the briny Flood,
::Swift as the Gale can bear the Ship along;
::And, from the Partners of the cruel Trade,
::Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her Sons,
::Demands his share of Prey, demands themselves.
::The stormy Fate descend: one Death involves
::Tyrants and Slaves; when strait, their mangled Limbs
::Crashing at once, he dyes the purple Seas
::With Gore, and riots in the vengeful Meal.
::::::'Summer', ll.1013-25
By painting such an emotive subject Turner was attempting to assist in the abolitionist campaign. The violent power of the sea and the strange sea creatures represent the forces of nature punishing the guilty. The painting was widely admired for its use of colour and the way in which sea and sky merge around the distant ship. In the lower portion of the painting, hands of enslaved Africans can be seen still shackled. The painting is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, USA.[http://www.victorianweb.org/art/crisis/crisis4e.html J. M. W.Turner's Slave Ship]
The painting was the subject of an extended poetic sequence or verse novel by David Dabydeen, Turner (1994; reissued 2002).
Making A Mark - posts about Turner
- Making a Mark: Turner Watercolours with Hockney and Shirley
- There are two excellent new Turner exhibitions at Tate Britain - and part of one of them was curated by David Hockney.
- The BP Summer Exhibition: Hockney on Turner Watercolours (11 June 2007 - 3 February 2008). The exhibition is simply stunning and well worth seeing in person if at all possible.
- The second exhibition also focuses on the artistic process and is an interactive display in the Clore Gallery called Colour and Line: Turner's Experiments An (2 May 2007 - 30 April 2012. You've got lots of time to see this one!)
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- Leila Rosen Leila Rosen Aug 3, 2009 @ 12:05 pm
- I want everyone who loves the work of Turner to know of a powerful paper by artist and Aesthetic Realism consultant Dorothy Koppelman, titled "Light and Dark, Hiding and Showing in Joseph Mallord William Turner." Mrs. Koppelman, the founding director of the Terrain Gallery in New York City, writes with critical comprehension and aesthetic exactitude about Turner's work and also his life. Here is the link to this paper:
http://www.terraingallery.org/J-M-W-Turner/turner-light.htm.
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- Douglass Montrose-Graem Douglass Montrose-Graem Dec 31, 2008 @ 9:26 pm
- What a treasure chest of Turner data! You are invited to visit www.turnermuseum.org [founded in 1973] and wallow in beautiful J.M.W. Turners. We are a wee bit more than a "fan site". Also believe we could learn a lot about your unique resources and resourcefulness and about blogging we are about to start. When i can figure out how to send YOU an email, I'll be happy to send you our exhibition schedule for 2009-2013, then let me have your reaction. Please visit my personal website: spirit007genius.com to explore the range of collaborations YOU believe we could develop.
Wishing you a marvelous 2009. The best is yet to come!
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