Turning to Turner

Exhibitions

William Miller, After Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Shipwreck.

From J. M. W. Turner and W. Cosmo Monkhouse, The Turner Gallery (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1879–80). Milwaukee Art Museum Research Center. Photo by John R. Glembin.

Overview

  • December 22, 2017–April 29, 2018

  • Herzfeld Center for Photography and Media Arts

  • Free for Members

  • Included with admission

Prints by the English landscape painter and watercolorist Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851) reflect what many celebrated as his “truth to nature.” Turner’s art influenced several nineteenth-century American painters, Winslow Homer among them, and how they depicted the natural world. Turning to Turner features a selection of the master’s prints, including rare selections from his Liber Studiorum and Turner Gallery series, alongside prints by Homer and other artists who were inspired by Turner’s style.

Selected artworks

William Miller, After Joseph Mallord William Turner, Shipwreck off Hastings, 1875.

Engraving.

Joseph Mallord William Turner, The Fighting Temeraire, 1834.

Oil on canvas. 35.7 × 47.8 in (90.7 × 121.6 cm.)

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Entrance of the Meuse: Orange-Merchant on the Bar, Going to Pieces; Brill Church bearing S. E. by S., Masensluys E. by S., 1819.

Oil on canvas. 97 × 69 in (175.3 × 246.4 cm).