c. 1803-04／Oil on canvas
45.7 x 60.9 cm
Permanent Exhibition: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century – 500 Years of Western Paintings
Exhibition period：Saturday April 12～Sunday June 22, 2025
Permanent Exhibition Gallery 5 in the New Wingof Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
Permanent Exhibition: From the Renaissance to the 20th Century – 500 Years of Western Paintings
Exhibition period: Saturday July 12～Monday September 15, 2025
Permanent Exhibition Gallery 5 in the New Wing of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum
SUMMARY
Turner had a strong attachment to the landscapes around the Thames since his early childhood. The ever-changing views of sea and river planted the beauty of majestic nature’s rhythm in the boy’s mind. His early works show that Turner incorporated the classical techniques used by Claude Lorrain and other painters, such as the representation of bright light and air, into the techniques of Realism which are based on close observation. Despite the small piece, this work vividly shows the ability of the painter in this period. A sense of urgency of an impending storm is represented superbly with the depictions of the dark clouds covering the sky from left to right, the sailboat being tilted by strong winds, the movements of people on board hastily lowering the sail, and the surge of sea bursting out with enormous forces. During this time, Turner left some of his seascape paintings that depict the enormous forces of nature that can easily overwhelm the modest efforts of human beings in a romantic style.
ARTIST
Joseph Mallord William Turner
1775-1851
List of artworks by the same artist
INFORMATION
Saturday, August 1 - Tuesday, September 22, 2020
Chopin—Portrayed in 200 Years of Images Shizuoka City Museum of Art (Shizuoka, Japan)
Sunday, April 26 - Sunday, June 28, 2020
Chopin—Portrayed in 200 Years of Images Nerima Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Saturday, February 1 - Sunday, March 22, 2020
Chopin—Portrayed in 200 Years of Images Kurume Art City Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Saturday, October 12 - Sunday, November 24, 2019
Chopin—Portrayed in 200 Years of Images Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art (Hyogo, Japan)
Saturday, January 12 - Saturday, May 4, 2019
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Shanghai PowerLong Museum (Shanghai, China)
Tuesday, October 23 - Sunday, December 23, 2018
500 Years of Western Paintings: Collection of Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Tsinghua University Art Museum (Beijing, China)
Saturday, July 7 - Sunday, September 9, 2018
Turner and the Poetics of Landscape Koriyama City Museum of Art (Fukushima, Japan)
Tuesday, April 24 - Sunday, July 1, 2018
Turner and the Poetics of Landscape Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
Saturday, February 17 - Sunday, April 15, 2018
Turner and the Poetics of Landscape The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Friday, November 3 - Sunday, February 4, 2018
Turner and the Poetics of Landscape Kitakyusyu Municipal Museum of Art (Fukuoka, Japan)
Saturday, April 29 - Sunday, June 25, 2017
The Collection of the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum: East and West Encounters Niihama City Museum of Art (Ehime, Japan)
Tuesday, March 11 - Sunday, May 11, 2014
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy The Museum of Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Wednesday, January 15 - Sunday, March 2, 2014
Impressionists at the Waterside—Depicting Urban Resorts: Paris, the Seine, and Normandy Fukuoka City Museum (Fukuoka, Japan)
Tuesday, October 8 - Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Turner from the Tate: the Making of a Master Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Friday, September 17 - Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Present of Brilliant nature & light from Barbizon to Musashino Fuchu Art Museum (Tokyo, Japan)
Saturday, October 24 - Sunday, December 20, 2009
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Nagoya City Art Museum (Aichi, Japan)
Saturday, August 1 - Sunday, September 27, 2009
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Matsumoto City Museum of Art (Nagano, Japan)
Saturday, June 6 - Monday, July 20, 2009
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Hiroshima Museum of Art (Hiroshima, Japan)
Saturday, April 4 - Sunday, May 24, 2009
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Sapporo Art Museum (Hokkaido, Japan)
Friday, January 30 - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Intersection of Paintings and Photographs Hokkaido Obihiro Museum of Art (Hokkaido, Japan)
Friday, August 1 - Sunday, August 31, 2003
A Great Masters of Impressionist and Modern Arts Iwate Prefectural Hall (Iwate, Japan)
Saturday, October 5 - Monday, November 4, 2002
Art of the West & Art of Japan Exhibition: Monet, Renoir, Cezanne… Ikeno Taiga, Tani Buncho, and Others Shimane Art Museum (Shimane, Japan)
Saturday, July 20 - Sunday, September 1, 2002
The Great Masters of Art Hida Takayama Museum of Art (Gifu, Japan)
Friday, June 7 - Sunday, June 23, 2002
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection Fukui City Art Museum (Fukui, Japan)
Saturday, May 11 - Sunday, June 2, 2002
Modern Western Painting Kagoshima Prefectural Museum of Culture Reimeikan (Kagoshima, Japan)
Saturday, April 13 - Monday, May 6, 2002
Modern Western Oils and Engravings from the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum Collection The Urasoe Art Museum (Okinawa, Japan)
Thursday, June 27 - Tuesday, September 10, 1996
Turner National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia)
Saturday, March 16 - Monday, June 10, 1996
Turner National Gallery of Australia (Canberra, Australia)
Sunday, November 1 - Sunday, January 10, 1993
“Sun, Wind and Rain”: the Awakening of British Landscape Painting Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts (Tochigi, Japan)
Provenance: Jack Bannister, (purchased from the artist in 1803 or 4, and his executor’s sale, Foster’s, 28th March 1849, bt. Farrer) John Gibbons, 1851 The Rev. B. Gibbons, son of the above, 1894 Sir John Goldsmid, Bt., 1896 Pandeli Ralli, 1929 Malden Public Library, Malden, Mass., (purchased 1930) 1989 Exhibited: London, Royal Academy, Loan Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, 1890, no.48 London, Royal Academy, Loan Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, 1986, no.15 Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Turner, Constable and Boning-ton,1946, no.1 Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario and Ottawa, The National Gallery of Art Exhibition of Paintings by J.M.W. Turner, 1951, no.2 Cambridgem The Fogg Art Museum, Landscape: Massys to Corot;, 1955, no.18 Indianapolis, John Herron Art Institute, Turner in America, 1955, no.10 Dayton, Art Institute, The Romantic Era, 1955, no.10 Milwaulee, Art Institute, Sea Paintings, 1958 Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery; and Utica, Museum of Fine Art, Masters of Landscape: East and West, 1963, no.40 Iowa, University of Iowa Gallery of Art, Impressionism and its Sources, 1964 Wichita, Art Museum, Civilisation Revisited, 1971-72 Memphis, The Dixon Gallery, Joseph Mallord William Tuener, 1976, no.1 Japan, Hyogo, The Museum of Modern Art The Iwate Prefectural Museum; The Museum of Modern Art,Saitama The Hiroshima Prefectural Museum; and the Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, The Rediscovery of Nature: Landscape in the Nineteenth Century, 1983-34
Literature: Sir Walter Armstrong, Turner, 1902, pp.228-229 A.J. Phillipott, Malden Public Library Acaquired Marine Painting by J.M.W. Turner, The Boston Globe, February 8th, 1931 Francis A. Shore, Fifty-third Annual Report of the Malden Public Library, 1931, p.8 The Fogg Museum Bulletin, 1932, pp.1, 4 and 77 Irving S. Cole (ed.), Twenty Paintings, Malden Public Library, 1949, p.12 A.J. Finberg The Life of J.M.W. Turner, 1961, pp.424-425 Ross C. Anderson, Thirty Paintings in the Malden Collection, 1976, p.28, repr. Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, 1977, Text Volume, p.96, cat.no.143; Plates Volume, pl.148 Diana G. Malgeri, A Century of Service; One Hundredth Anniversary of the Malden Public Library, 1879-1979, 1979, p.4 Andrew Wilton, The Life and Work of J.M.W. Turner, 1979, p.267, cat. no. P143 Evelyn Joll and Martin Butlin, L’Opera completa di Turner, 1982, p.77, no.47
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