Turner in the Tate Collection by David Blayney Brown

Turner in the Tate Collection by David Blayney Brown

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Focusing on 120 of J.M.W. Turner's works, this volume provides a survey of all the aspects of the Tate Turner collections, introducing not only familiar masterpieces but many other works - such as sketchbooks or prints. These highlight Turner's achievements and the many themes to his work.

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Turner in the Tate Collection by David Blayney Brown

The Tate owns the largest collection of J.M.W. Turner's work, its Clore Gallery houses the Turner Bequest - the paintings, watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks acquired from the artist's estate in 1856. Focusing on 120 works, this volume provides a survey of all the aspects of the Tate Turner collections, introducing not only familiar masterpieces but many other works - such as sheets from sketchbooks or prints. These are included to highlight Turner's achievements and the many themes in his work such as landscape, ideal and naturalistic, British and European, ancient and modern history, marine subjects, literary illustration and images of modern life.
David Blayney Brown is Senior Curator, Tate Collections, responsible for the Turner Collection in the Clore Gallery. His many publications include Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings for the Ashmolean Museum, Turner and Byron, Turner in the Alps, and Romanticism (forthcoming 2001).
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ISBN 13 9781854373564
ISBN 10 1854373560
Title Turner in the Tate Collection
Author David Blayney Brown
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Tate Publishing
Year published 2002-06-07
Number of pages 144
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