North Sea | Thames Estuary | United Kingdom | England
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Not on view
Exhibition History:
In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)JMW TURNER : Turner and Colour (Hôtel de Caumont, Aix-en-Provence, France, 2016-05-03 - 2016-09-18)JMW TURNER : Turner and Colour (Turner Contemporary, 2016-10-07 - 2017-01-08)The Critique of Reason : Romantic Art, 1760–1860 (Yale University Art Gallery, 2015-03-06 - 2015-07-26)Turner and the Sea (National Maritime Museum, 2013-11-22 - 2014-04-21)Turner and the Sea (The Peabody Essex Museum, 2014-05-31 - 2014-09-01)Behold the Sea (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-07)Late Turner (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, 1999-04-01 - 1999-06-05)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)
Publications:
Martin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, p.290, 318, no. 476, pl. 477, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 228-229, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)Malcolm Cormack, Oil on water : oil sketches by British watercolorists, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 57-59, fig. 65, ND467 C67 (YCBA)Christine Riding, Turner & the sea, Thames & Hudson, London, 2013, pp. 232-233, no. 119, NJ18.T85 R52 2013 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Joyce H. Townsend, How Turner Painted: Materials & Techniques, Thames & Hudson, London, 2019, p. 25, NJ18.T85 T642 2019 (LC) (YCBA)Turner et la couleur, Editions Hazan, Paris, 2016, pp. 169, 181, no. 143, NJ18 .T85 A12 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 292, no. P476, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In later life, J. M.W. Turner spent much of the year living incognito in Chelsea, on the outskirts of London, with Sophia Booth, his housekeeper and mistress. Turner had met the widowed Mrs. Booth in Margate and adopted the pseudonym of Captain Booth to preserve his anonymity, passing himself off as a retired seaman. Though ailing physically, he traveled to Switzerland most summers until 1845 and spent a great deal of time in Margate studying the sea. After Turner’s death, a cache of oil on paper studies of the sea was found in his Chelsea studio, of which this is a good example. The exact status of these small studies is contested, but most of them are uncharacteristically devoid of human narrative and are instead pure studies of the power of nature achieved with an almost monochrome palette. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2022