J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27)In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03)Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England (Worcester Art Museum, 2017-11-11 - 2018-02-04)Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2018-03-02 - 2018-05-20)Touchstone Turner (Turner Contemporary, 2014-01-25 - 2014-05-11)Turner : The Late Seascapes (Clark Art Institute, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-08)Turner : The Late Seascapes (Manchester City Galleries, 2003-11-01 - 2004-01-25)Turner : The Late Seascapes (Burrell Collection, 2004-02-15 - 2004-05-14)Late Turner (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, 1999-04-01 - 1999-06-05)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05)William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02)J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21)Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20)
Publications:
Martin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, p. 284, 291, 293, no. 482, pl. 483, 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)Genius Defined, Time, vol. 82, no.. 1, July 5, 1963, p.62, V 2333 (YCBA) Hard Copy also available at SML - AP2 T55 +Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + OVERSIZE (YCBA)J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, , National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 14, 30, no. 15, fig. 15, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 92, no. 136, pl. 192, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., , Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 44 (v.1), no. 163, pl. 63, N5220.M45 R69 1964 (YCBA)Tony Smibert, Turner's Apprentice : a watercolour class, Thames and Hudson, 2020, p. 117, NJ18.T85 S65 2020 Oversize (YCBA)Denys Sutton, Some English Landscapes in Mr. Mellon's Collection, Apollo, vol. 77, April 1963, p. 281-282, Pl. VI, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 293, no. P482, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon : [exhibition at] Yale University Art Gallery, April 15-June 20, 1965, , vol. 1, W. Clowes and sons, New Haven, 1965, p. 51 (v.1), no. 192, pl. 63, ND466 Y35 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
This small but powerful late sketch exemplifies the painterly approach that one critic, writing of a contemporary exhibition work, derided as “soap suds and whitewash.” Turner furiously responded that his intention was not “to paint to be understood but to show what [it] was like.” Using rapid, gestural brushstrokes and a limited color palette, Turner conveys the dizzying intensity of the sea and wind. Crashing waves scatter spray across the middle ground of the image, while light breaks through in a way that hints at the sharp breeze driving the clouds apart. It was this pursuit of sheer physical intensity, in both subject and style, that defied the proprieties of conventional landscape painting and bemused so many of Turner’s contemporaries, critics and public alike. Gallery label for J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (Yale Center for British Art, March - 29, 2025 - July 27, 2025)