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 on the Loire (Tate Britain, 1997-09-30 - 1998-02-15)Translations - Turner and Printmaking (Yale Center for British Art, 1993-09-29 - 1993-12-05)English Landscape (Paul Mellon Collection) 1630-1850 (Yale Center for British Art, 1977-04-19 - 1977-07-17)
Publications:
Eric M. Lee, Translations : Turner and printmaking, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1993, pp. 40-41, no. 167, NJ18 .T85 L44 1993 (YCBA)Amy Meyers, Modesty and Munificence, Apollo, v. 165, no. 542, April 2007, p. 31, fig. 6, N1 A54 + (YCBA)Graham Reynolds, Turner : with a new introduction by David Blayney Brown, Thames & Hudson, London, fig. 101, NJ18.T85 R49 2020 (YCBA)Ian Warrell, Turner on the Loire, Tate Publishing, London, 1997, p. 117, cat. 117, fig. 112, NJ18 .T85 W376 1997 +Oversize (YCBA)Christopher White, English landscape, 1630-1850, drawings, prints & books from the Paul Mellon Collection , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 82-83, no. 149, pl. CXXXII, NC228 W45 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Yale Center for British Art, Great British watercolors : from the Paul Mellon Collection, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2007, pp. 112-113, no. 48, ND1928 .Y35 2007 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)
Gallery Label:
From the late 1820s Turner was involved in a project to illustrate the Great Rivers of Europe. By 1834 the publisher had gone bust, but Turner was reluctant to waste the drawings he had already created, including this view of Tours made on a tour of France in 1826. He therefore sold them to another publisher who reproduced them as The Rivers of France in 1837. In this case the blue tint to the paper stands in for the river and the sky, allowing Turner to add highlights and shade only, a time-saving method he had begun to use from around 1815. Although Turner has depicted the river and the cathedral beyond, Tours displays a characteristically Turnerian fascination with human life rather than the obviously beautiful view, giving prominence to the people whose livelihood depends on the river. 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)