Turner watercolours / David Blayney Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, David Blayney.

Contributor:

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.

Tate Britain (Gallery)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851--Exhibitions.

Turner, J. M. W.

Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851.

Landscapes in art--Exhibitions.

Landscapes in art.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Tate Pub. ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by H.N. Abrams, 2007.

Summary:

JMW Turner's lifetime (1775-1851). was also the classic age of the English watercolor, and his mastery and perfection of the medium coincided with its establishment as an independent art form. He rarely left his home without a sketchbook, pencils, and a small traveling case of watercolors. 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 countless admirers since. In an extensive and illuminating introduction, internationally acclaimed Turner expert David Blayney Brown provides a context to the watercolors and a background to the Tate's unrivalled collection of Turner's work.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition "Hockney on Turner watercolours", Tate Britain, June 12, 2007-Feb. 3, 2008.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781854377715

185437771X

OCLC:

156867440

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