Joseph Mallord William Turner
English, 1775–1851
View off Margate, Evening
c. 1840
Vigorous brushwork and loosely defined forms are characteristic of Turner’s late work. In this enigmatic painting, a woman and two children, shrouded in mist and sea spray, seem to be gazing at a passing sailboat or at the ghostly hulk of a distant ship. Turner’s companion, Sophia Booth, originally owned the painting and it is probably a view of Margate, the coastal town near London where she lived.
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 12 5/8 x 19 1/4 in. (32.1 x 48.9 cm) |
| Object Number | 2007.8.117 |
| Acquisition | Gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Joseph Mallord William Turner, View off Margate, Evening, c. 1840, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, gift of the Manton Art Foundation in memory of Sir Edwin and Lady Manton, 2007.8.117
Select Bibliography
Joll, Evelyn. Turner: A Special Loan Exhibition of 20 Rarely Seen Paintings. Tate Gallery, London, October 27-December 5, 1977. London: Tate Publishing. 1977.
British Council. Oleos y Acuarelas Joseph Mallord William Turner. Museo de arte moderna, Mexico City and Museo de bellas artes, Caracas, Venezuala, April-November 1979. 1979.
Kokuritsu Seiyo Bijutsukan. J.M.W. Turner. National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, August 16-October 5, 1986; Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, October 14-November 16, 1986. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha. 1986.
Art Gallery of Ontario. Turner and the Romantic Landscape. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1995.
Wilton, Andrew. Turner, Girtin and Bonington: A New York Private Collection, Paintings, Watercolours, and Drawings. New York: Privately Published, 2001.
Hamilton, James. Turner: The Late Seascapes. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven: Yale University Press; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2003.
Joll, Evelyn and Martin Butlin. Catalogue of the Paintings of J. M. W. Turner. Studies in British Art. 2. vols. London: Yale University Press. 1977.
Wilton, Andrew. J. M. W. Turner, His Art and Life. New York: Rizzoli, 1979.
Posnett, David, introd. Leger: A Century of Art Dealing, 1892-1992. London: The Leger Galleries, 1992.
Clarke, Jay, ed. Landscape, Innovation, and Nostalgia: The Manton Collection of British Art. Williamstown, MA: The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2012.
Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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