View of Lucerne by Joseph Mallord William Turner
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View of Lucerne

Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1840/41

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. John Ruskin (died 1900), London [according to Armstrong 1902]. Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (died 1924), Glasgow, by 1901 [Lugt 394; according to Armstrong 1902]. Sold by Hans Calmann, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 128.
  • Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 104.
  • New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Turner: Imagination and Reality," 1966, cat. 80, cat. by Lawrence Gowing.
  • Berkeley, Calif., Berkeley University Art Museum, "J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections," August 18-December 19, 1975.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 124-125, cat. 55 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 19, 1986.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Walter Armstrong, Turner (London, 1902), p. 286.
  • Martha Tedeschi, “Phineas Borret’s Farm near Saffron Walden, 1802,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 62-63, cat. 26, fig. 22.

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