The first major (and largest ever) US Turner retrospective in 40 years, J. M. W. Turner contained over 140 works in oils and watercolor. The paintings provided an overview of both the artist's long career and his varied interests in history, mythology, seascapes and, of course, landscapes. Here we have a sampling of all of these themes, plus two works purely from Turner's own imagination.
J. M. W. Turner was organized by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (where it opened and was on view October 1, 2007-January 6, 2008), the Dallas Museum of Art (February 10-May 25, 2008) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (July 1-September 21, 2008), in association with Tate Britain, London which, from its enormous Turner collection, loaned over half of the works on exhibition.
To read a full review of the exhibition as seen at the MMA, please see J. M. W. Turner by art critic Beth Gersh-Nesic.
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