I just heard the major touring exhibition of JMW Turner paintings from the Tate Britain currently showing at the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide (closes May 19th) is set to show at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra from June 1st to September 8th.
This is great news for Australian fans of the most important landscape artist of the Romantic era because usually you would have to go to London to see such a vast collection from the Turner Bequest. The exhibition comprises around 100 oils and watercolours selected by Ian Warrell, a well respected Turner expert.
Turner's influence cannot be underestimated. Even the French Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro studied his work when they lived in London during the Franco-Prussian War and were known to remark on the expressionistic style of his vast and haunting landscapes.
Naturally I'll be reviewing the show in a later blog. AW (Tony) Scott
Photographs (Top) The Turner Room in London's Tate Britain (Bottom) The Tate Britain houses the Turner Bequest, the largest collection of Turners in the world.
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