Europe | England | United Kingdom | Yarmouth | Isle of Wight
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Exhibition History:
Deluge (Yale Center for British Art, 2018-12-18 - 2019-03-24)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)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (The State Hermitage Museum, 2007-10-23 - 2008-01-13)Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 2007-07-11 - 2007-09-30)Turner 1996 (National Gallery of Australia, 1996-03-17 - 1996-06-10)Turner 1996 (National Gallery of Victoria, 1996-06-23 - 1996-09-09)Oil on Water - Oil Sketches by British Watercolorists (Yale Center for British Art, 1986-08-26 - 1986-11-09)Turner and the Sublime (Yale Center for British Art, 1981-02-11 - 1981-04-19)Turner and the Sublime (British Museum, 1981-05-15 - 1981-09-20)Turner and the Sublime (Art Gallery of Ontario, 1980-11-01 - 1981-01-04)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
A loan exhibition of English drawings and watercolours from the collection of Mr and Mrs Paul Mellon of Upperville, Virginia, P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London, 1964, cat. no. 36, pl. XI, N5247.M385 L62 (YCBA)An exhibition of English drawings and water colors from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, February 18-April 1, 1962, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1962, p. 43, cat. no. 90, NC228 U6 (YCBA) Copy 2 is on Mellon ShelfMalcolm Cormack, Oil on water, oil sketches by British watercolorists , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1986, pp. 57-59, fig. 66, ND467 C67 (YCBA)English Drawings and Watercolours from the Mellon Collection, The Times (London), issue no. 56195, December 15, 1964, p. 6, Available online: The Times Digital Archive Also available on Microfilm: Film An T482 (SML)Michael Lloyd, Turner, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1996, pp. 44, 234, no. 82, NJ18 T85 L57 1996 + (YCBA)Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, , 1,2, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 95, no. 144, ND466 V57 v.1-2 (YCBA)Simon Schama, The Yale Centre for British Art, TLS, the Times Literary Supplement, , May 20, 1977, p. 620, TLS Historical ArchiveTurner et la couleur, Editions Hazan, Paris, 2016, p. 161, no. 126, NJ18 .T85 A12 2016 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, p. 84, no. 151, pl. XXV, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, The life and work of J.M.W. Turner, Academy Editions, London, 1979, pp. 468-9, No. 1406, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Andrew Wilton, Turner and the sublime, British Museum Publications, London, 1980, p. 153, no. 67, NJ18 T85 W579 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 114-115, no. 49, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Yale University Art Gallery, English drawings and watercolors, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, April 15 - June 20, 1965 , New Haven, 1965, cat. no. 36, Pl. XI, NC228 Y34 (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
In the late 1830s and early 1840s growing ill health led Turner to spend more time on the coast. Yarmouth Sands belongs to this period of engagement with marine subjects, when his focus shifted towards the threatening aspects of the sea with shipwrecks, storms, and violent waves becoming common themes. As in many of these late seascapes, Yarmouth includes vulnerable human figures against a violent storm. The result is an intense investigation of a natural phenomenon with an additional message about the frailty of human culture pitted against the forces of nature. Gallery label for Great British Watercolors from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2008-06-09 - 2008-08-17)