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MAY 6 - 15, 2003 !
The Turner Museum™
Introducing J.M.W.Turner to Florida
An Evening at The Turner
Beauport
A Series of Events Staged at
ART CENTER SARASOTA
May 6-15, in our 30th Anniversary Year
By THE TURNER MUSEUM
The celebration of our 30th Anniversary has three major components:
* this art exhibition, *
* this art catalog *
combined with an extensive showing of this exhibition and catalog on our Internet site, www.turnermuseum.org further combined
. with the publication The celebration of our 30th Anniversary has three major components: *this art exhibition, *this art
catalog combined with an of a Turner book: Triple Turner Treat. With trend setting vigor these three are melded into a holistic
Turner experience the kind of which has been never presented before on our planet. During this exhibition we wish to remember
the ambiance of The Turner Museum at its previous location: in the Turner Mansion in Denver. Thus, we stage a get-acquainted
exhibition accompanied by personalized guided tours, along with a series of dining events appealing to several senses at once,
and offer students and their teachers new learning experiences. During its successful run in Colorado lasting for more than 20
years, The Turner earned a place among America’s 99 ‘finest’ museums.Our wish is expand on this exalted base: reincarnate
The Turner as a bright jewel in the cultural crown of our beloved Sarasota. We can’t do it alone. We need your help! I trust these
events will serve an inspiration to achieve this glittering objective.
Douglass Graham
Founder The Turner Museum
© 2009 The Turner Museum
Catalog of Exhibits
Please read this in conjunction with the more detailed catalog of this
exhibition soon on www.turnermuseum.org. All are Turners unless
identified otherwise. This exhibition reflects three major innovations
all introduced by The Turner the way art and specifically graphic
masterpieces are presented to the public: .doing away with the 20th
Century tradition of white or off-white mats around images the
expanse of which tended to be larger than the image itself—this
method tends to overwhelm them and reduce their importance; .do
away with the often flowery text under the image, tending to distract
what should be the focus: the image itself; and . highlighting
photographically enlarged details in tandem with the originals to
enhance the enjoyment and understanding of the originals.
Dedications
1. Goldau, avalanche in the Swiss Alps, 1976 giant poster
(reminiscent of Bill’s giant presence and the homeland of his
forebears) of “Turner and Switzerland” exhibition at Kunsthaus
Zurich
Gift of Kurt Pantzer, Indianapolis,
To William M.B.Berger (1925-1999)
friend for four decades, fellow art collector
2. Beauport 1818 aquatint (reproduced on front cover)
To Jimmy Dean Sarasota’s renaissance man
3. Drawing of the Clyde 1809 mixed media on copper
To Bill and June Gordon, friends per excellence
4. Logo of Triple Turner Treat, the Ebook just published by The
Turner Museum—part of our 30th anniversary celebration,
designed by Isis Graham
To Isis, youngest curator
Leaves from the history of Turner and The Turner Museum
5. Portrait of J.M.W.Turner (1775-1851) 1848 Lithograph by
Count D’Orsay (1801-1852)
6. Turner U.K. postage stamps and first day cover 1975
Gift of Phil Warman
7. Portrait of Baron Frederick Podmaniczky (1824-1911) oil on
canvas by artist to be identified—saved from a burning
building in 1945. “Uncle Frigyes” Freedom fighter, first
director National Theater Hungary, President Liberal Party,
vice-chairman Budapest Municipal Council, great-uncle of
founder The Turner and role model
8. Portrait of Douglass Graham, founder The Turner 1978 sepia
crayon on paper by Frank Szasz (1926-1995)
9. Single & Single, novel by John le Carre 1999 aka David
Cornwell with MS dedication to his fellow British British
intelligence officer, founder of The Turner, colleagues nearly
half a century ago
10. Bocaccio—The Bird Cage 1830 mezzotint—a suitable
introduction to an ‘Evening at The Turner’—an example of a
20th Century style display in which the mat’s surface is more
than twice of that of the original, tending to bleed away the
importance of the image.
11. Halstead Abbey, about 1820, watercolor of Lord Byron’s home
by unknown artist, acquired as a Turner but not by Turner.
Turner: The Rising Star
With the arrival of the new century, with stunning speed, Turner
establishes himself as a major artist
12. Tivoli, 1798 watercolor—a joint production with his best
buddy Thomas Girtin (1775-1802)
13. Liber Studiorum, (‘Book of Sketches’) 1807-1819, open at
‘Sketch of the Clyde’, mixed media on copper. Historic folio of
68 masterworks by Turner’s; his only self-published series,
used as teaching material at two famed art schools in London
during the second half of the 19th century. This set
established Turner as a major presence in the art world Three
individual images from the Liber Studiorum
14. Holy Island Cathedral, 1808
15. Procris and Cephalus, 1812—“an early Renoir”
16. Water-Mill, 1812, mixed media
Exhibits 17-24: magnificent Sussex views financed by a mega-rich
patron—Turner soon became also wealthy
17. Beauport 1816 Aquatint—illustrated on front cover
These seven leaves from the album ‘Views of Sussex’
engravings/etchings on copper, lent some 20 years ago to
Englewood, Colorado’s Museum of Outdoor Art—no expense
spared to produce a state of the art 20th century style
presentation.
18. Front cover of the de luxe Views in Sussex album 1819
19. Emblematic design 1819
20. Battle Abbey where Harold fell 1816 The historic 1066
Battle of Hastings established Norman rule over England and
changed the course of history
21. Brightling Observatory 1816
22. The Vale of Ashburnham 1817
23. Pevensey Bay 1818
24. The Vale of Heathfield 1818
“The greatest Sea Painter of all time”
25. Lord Mildmay’s Sea Piece, 1812, mixed media on copper,
another masterpiece from the’ Liber’ set: a magnificent sky,
delicate gradations in sepia tones, a radiant sun and people
engaged in busy everyday activities—The Turner dubbed
these activities repeated zillions of times over the ages as
‘Cosmic Moments’
The Twelve Views from the celebrated mezzotint set “The Ports of
England”—1826-1856
Courtesy Linda Ohlson Graham
26. Scarborough
27. Whitby
28. Dover
29. Ramsgate
30. Sheerness
31. Portsmouth
32. Margate
33. Deal
34. Sidmouth
35. Plymouth
36. Catwater, Plymouth
37. Falmouth
Jumbo Master Prints
Hastings and Dover are two of the last works completed before
Turner’s passing—only 50 impressions made. Turner is known to
have hand colored some of his works but it is not known whether
Exhibit 40 hand colored by Turner or by another hand
38. Hastings 1851 Etching on steel
39. Dover 1851 Engraving on steel
40. Dover 1851 Engraving on steel—colored by hand
41. The Straits of Dover 1863 Engraving on steel
Three Powerful Allegories
42. Ancient Italy 1842 Engraving on copper—Allegory on the
freedom of speech
43. Detail of above—photograph—the great poet Ovid marched
into exile by the dictator’s guards
44. Crossing the Brook 1842 Etching on copper, unique progressive
proof with Turner’s lead pencil corrections for the engraver
—Allegory on the passing of time—children growing up
45. Detail of above—showing Turner’s younger daughter on the
right shore, his older daughter already ‘crossing into life’ onto
the other shore.
These two exhibits are textbook examples of The Turner’s novel
way of presenting art to the public—avoiding a large white mat
tending to bleed away the importance of the black and white
image
46. Great Yarmouth, Norfolk 1828 engraving on copper—the
focus is on the image
Enlarged photographic detail of above—The dark clouds
Ludlow Castle—Rising of the Water Nymphs
The Great Wave
remind us of the threat of French invasion in Turner’s time—
here we have a powerful symbolic element—a Turner
trademark
47. Detail above—dark clouds remind us of the threat of French
invasion of the British Isles in Turner’s time—another powerful
allegory—a Turner trade mark.
48. The Angel Standing in the Sun 1846 oil on canvas—
photographic detail of the Angel—Turner’s ultimate selfportrait
Courtesy Tate Gallery London
49. Mustering of the Warrior Angels
50. Detail of above
51. The Fall of the Rebel Angels
52. Detail of above
53. The Expulsion from Paradise
54. Detail of above
55. The Temptation on the Mountain
56. Detail of above
57. St. Michael’s Mount—Shipwreck of Lycidas
58. Detail of above
59. Ludlow Castle—Rising of the Water Nymphs
60. Detail of above
Ludlow Castle- Rising of the Water Nymphs
61. Turner Goes to Heaven 1989 Royal Academy London poster
featuring painting by Carol Wright C.B.E. member Royal
Academy
Terrestrial Angels
62. Countess Emma Keglevich (1828-1876), the founder’s greatgreat
grandmother with her older sister Eugenie, mixed media
on ivory by Karl von Saar (1797-1853)
63. Isis, Emma’s granddaughter’s granddaughter, photograph by
Russell Ohlson ‘youngest curator’
Turner’s Angels
64. Mouth of the Seine 1833 oil on board inscribed verso ‘Sketch
by J.M.W.Turner from the Collection of Serjeant Thomas
Birmingham’ - illustrated on the back cover
65. Quilleboeuf 1834 steel engraving from the series “The Rivers
of France’
This is recreation of exhibitions held in our previous location in
1990 and at Arvada Colorado Art Center in 1991/2, subsequently
a permanent display at The Turner Museum in Denver
66. “The Great Wave off Kamagana’’ by Hokusai (1760-1849) colored woodcut.
67. The Deluge, mezzotint on copper, black ink, etched about
1830, or later, remained unpublished—Turner’s other ‘Great
Wave’
Turner’s stunning illustrations to Milton’s Poetical Works 1835
engravings on steel each accompanied by a greatly enlarged
68. The Deluge, mezzotint on steel, 1828, remained unpublished,
a larger version of the Great Wave on copper.
NOTE: This Exhibit is offered by an European dealer—The Turner is looking
for a $3,850 Patron to acquire this masterpiece by Turner.
69.-71. Turner Exhibition Posters
Links between the three 30th Anniversary celebrations
** The exhibition “Introducing J.M.W. Turner to Florida” at Art Center Sarasota—incorporates elements of all
three Anniversary
celebrations.
** The exhibition catalogs “Introducing J.M.W. Turner to Florida”. The illustrated printed version lists all items
displayed. It also
provides links to the more extensive version, lavishly illustrated, displayed in the ‘Galleries’ section of The Turner
Museum’s website:
www.turnermuseum.org all with links to the book ‘Triple Turner Treat’.
** The Book—With over 100 beautiful/revealing illustrations, the third ‘leg’ of The Turner Museum’s 30th Anniversary
celebration Triple Turner Treat, authored by The Turner’s founder, is to our knowledge, the first art Ebook ever
published, does have links to the
exhibition and its catalog. The First Treat is a recreation of Turner’s autobiography in a way never attempted
before—Turner himself
etches it.The Second Treat: ‘Adventures of an Intrepid Collector’ relates many exciting stories about how some of the
Turners shown
in the exhibition and listed in the catalog were acquired. The Third Treat: contains the long overdue and invaluable
reference material, the Compleat List of Turner’s Original Graphic Master-pieces.
Subscribe to ‘Triple Turner Treat’ during the exhibition or on line with Visa or MasterCard via www.turnermuseum.org
or
call 941-378-1885, ask for Isis.
Price $27.50, special discount until May 15th: $22.00
Mouth of the Seine (detail)
The Turner Museum is a public trust 501(3)(c)—Donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. The Turner
consists of twin corporations, the non-profit deals with art museum operations and certain related activities and the for
profit with restaurant and related activities.
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