dark | seascape | musical instruments | water | collage | coastguards | sea | landscape | sky | abstract art | ship | navy | world war | waves (natural events) | dream | World War 1939-1945 | war
Associated Places:
United Kingdom | England | Cornwall
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
Revisiting Traditions [BAC 20th century painting & sculpture] (Yale Center for British Art, 2002-04-30 - 2005-05-18)Bloomsbury Contemporaries (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-05-20 - 2000-09-03)20th Century Paintings and Sculpture (Yale Center for British Art, 2000-01-27 - 2000-04-30)
Publications:
Forecast, ART News, vol. 45, February 1947, p. 27, N1 A415 OVERSIZE (HAAS)Forecast, 1945, Art Digest, vol. 22, October 1947, p. 13, N1 A415 OVERSIZE (HAAS)John Haldane, Durham, John Tunnard , Burlington Magazine, Vol.142, No.1173, December 2000, pp. 789-90, fig. 62, N1 B87 + OVERSIZE (YCBA) Alao available online in JSTORPaul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 1, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Alan Peat, John Tunnard, his life and work , Scolar Press, Brookfield, Vt., 1997, pl. 23, NJ18 T8183 A12 P42 1997 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
Painted at the end of the Second World War, Forecast resembles the tangled memory of an anxious dream. John Tunnard was a conscientious objector during the war but compromised by serving as a coast guard in Cornwall, a modernist haven in Britain’s southwestern corner. Forecast suggests the forms of the Cornish coast, barometrical instruments for predicting the weather, and an ominous sky. Like other British surrealists, Tunnard sought to balance modernism with a traditional sense of British identity. In Forecast he captures a sense of place as well as the anxiety of its near loss to war and invasion. Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016