Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
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Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
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Shade and Darkness  Evening Deluge
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
animals: mammals
Bible: Old Testament
coast
dog - non-specific
emotions, concepts and ideas
evening
flood
Flood
formal qualities
from recognisable sources
gestural
horse
landscape
rain
religion and belief
seascapes and coasts
storm
times of the day
weather
<p>Pair to 'Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory), The Morning after the Deluge - Moses writing the Book of Genesis'. In these companion pictures, Turner opposes cool and warm colours, and their contrasting emotional associations, as described by Goethe in his 'Farbenlehre' (Theory of Colours). Turner has chosen the biblical Deluge as the vehicle for these ideas, returning to the Historical Sublime he had mastered in some of his earliest exhibition pictures. Originally painted and framed as octagons, this pair carries two of Turner's last and most inspired statements of the natural vortex, while the allusion to Goethe adds a gloss of recent science and theory to a lifetime's preoccupation with elemental forces.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
5 August 2002 – 21 May 2007
2007-05-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2002-08-05
Turner at Tate Britain
Collection based display
1 October 2007 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
1 October 2007 – 6 January 2008
2008-01-06
2007-10-01
National Gallery of Art (Washington DC, USA)
10 February 2008 – 18 May 2008
2008-05-18
2008-02-10
Dallas Museum of Art (Dallas, USA)
http://www.DallasMuseumofArt.org
23 June 2008 – 21 September 2008
2008-09-21
2008-06-23
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, USA)
http://www.metmuseum.org
2007-10-01
JMW Turner
Tate partnerships & programmes
24 October 2008 – 6 December 2009
2009-12-06
24 October 2008 – 6 December 2009
2009-12-06
2008-10-24
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2008-10-24
Turner's Eperiments: Colour and Line: Oct Rehang 111
Collection based display
21 September 2009 – 19 September 2010
2010-09-19
21 June 2010 – 19 September 2010
2010-09-19
2010-06-21
Museo Nacional del Prado (Madrid, Spain)
2009-09-21
Turner and the Masters
Exhibition
22 February 2010 – 19 September 2010
2010-09-19
21 September 2009 – 3 January 2010
2010-01-03
2009-09-21
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2010-02-22
Turner and the Masters
Loan-out
8 October 2011 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
8 October 2011 – 15 January 2012
2012-01-15
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
2011-10-08
On the Other Side of Air:Later paintings by Turner, Monet, Twombly
Loan-out
8 October 2011 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
8 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
2012-01-08
2011-10-08
Moderna Museet (Stockholm, Sweden)
11 February 2012 – 28 May 2012
2012-05-28
2012-02-11
Staatsgalerie (Stuttgart, Germany)
http://www.staatsgalerie.de/
29 June 2012 – 28 October 2012
2012-10-28
2012-06-29
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2011-10-08
Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings
Exhibition
10 September 2014 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
10 September 2014 – 25 January 2015
2015-01-25
2014-09-10
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
24 February 2015 – 24 May 2015
2015-05-24
2015-02-24
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
20 June 2015 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
2015-06-20
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum (San Francisco, USA)
http://www.famsf.org
2014-09-10
Late Turner: Painting Set Free
Exhibition
24 February 2015 – 31 January 2016
2016-01-31
24 February 2015 – 24 May 2015
2015-05-24
2015-02-24
J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles, USA)
20 June 2015 – 20 September 2015
2015-09-20
2015-06-20
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum
31 October 2015 – 31 January 2016
2016-01-31
2015-10-31
Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada)
http://www.ago.net
2015-02-24
Late Turner
Loan-out
1 May 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
4 May 2016 – 18 September 2016
2016-09-18
2016-05-04
Caumont Art Centre (Aix-en-Provence, France)
7 October 2016 – 8 January 2017
2017-01-08
2016-10-07
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2016-05-01
JMW Turner: From Shade and Darkness, to Light and Colour
Loan-out
22 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
22 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
2017-09-22
New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, UK)
http://www.artatwalsall.org.uk/
2017-09-22
Legacies: JMW Turner and contemporary art practice
Loan-out
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
6 July 2019 – 13 October 2019
2019-10-13
2019-07-06
Kunstmuseum (Luzern, Switzerland)
http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch
8 November 2019 – 26 January 2020
2020-01-26
2019-11-08
LWL-Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Westfälisches (Munster, Germany)
http://landesmuseum.lwl.org
20 February 2020 – 7 September 2020
2020-09-07
2020-02-20
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
15 October 2020 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
2020-10-15
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec (Québec, Canada)
http://www.mnba.qc.ca
2019-07-06
The Sea and the Alps: Turner's Quest for the Sublime
Tate partnerships & programmes
8 June 2021 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
8 July 2021 – 14 November 2021
2021-11-14
2021-07-08
Museum of Art Pudong (Shanghai, China)
20 December 2021 – 8 May 2022
2022-05-08
2021-12-20
Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, South Korea)
15 June 2022 – 13 November 2022
2022-11-13
2022-06-15
ACMI (Melbourne, Australia)
25 February 2023 – 25 June 2023
2023-06-25
2023-02-25
Auckland Art Gallery (Auckland, New Zealand)
12 July 2023 – 2 October 2023
2023-10-02
2023-07-12
National Art Center (Tokyo, Japan)
26 October 2023 – 14 January 2024
2024-01-14
2023-10-26
Nakanoshima Museum of Art (Osaka, Japan)
2021-06-08
Light
Tate partnerships & programmes
Shade and Darkness - the Evening of the Deluge
support: 787 × 781 mm
frame: 1040 × 1040 × 120 mm
Accepted by the nation as part of the <a href="/search?gid=999999781" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Turner Bequest</a> 1856
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Pair to 'Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory), The Morning after the Deluge - Moses writing the Book of Genesis'. In these companion pictures, Turner opposes cool and warm colours, and their contrasting emotional associations, as described by Goethe in his 'Farbenlehre' (Theory of Colours). Turner has chosen the biblical Deluge as the vehicle for these ideas, returning to the Historical <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/sublime" title="Glossary definition for 'Sublime'"><span>Sublime</span></a> he had mastered in some of his earliest exhibition pictures. Originally painted and framed as octagons, this pair carries two of Turner's last and most inspired statements of the natural vortex, while the allusion to Goethe adds a gloss of recent science and theory to a lifetime's preoccupation with elemental forces.
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<p><b>404. </b>[<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-shade-and-darkness-the-evening-of-the-deluge-n00531" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00531</span></a>]<b> Shade and Darkness—the evening of the Deluge</b> Exh. 1843</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (531)</p>
<p>Canvas, 31 × 30 3/4 (78·5 × 78)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (47, ‘Eve of the Deluge’ 2'6 1/2" by 2'6v" in diameter); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1905.</p>
<p><b>Exh.</b> R.A. 1843 (363); Cardiff 1951; Arts Council tour 1952–3 (20); Tate Gallery 1959 (360); New York 1966 (28, repr. in colour p. 40); Dresden (18, repr.) and Berlin (27, colour pl. 17) 1972; R.A. 1974–5 (522); Hamburg 1976 (130 and 156, repr. and colour pl. 18); Hague 1978–9 (xv, repr. in colour); Paris 1983–4 (72, repr.); Birmingham 1984.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Thornbury 1862, i, p. 347; ii, pp. 332–3; 1877, p. 466, 531; Hamerton 1879, p. 295; Bell 1901, p. 147 no. 239; Armstrong 1902, pp. 156–7, 220; Davies 1946, p. 186; Finberg 1961, pp. 396, 507 no. 553; R.D. Gray, ‘J. M. W. Turner and Goethe's Colour Theory’, <i>German Studies presented to Walter Horace Bruford</i> 1962, pp. 112–16; Kitson 1964, p. 82, repr. in colour p. 72; Rothenstein and Butlin 1964, pp. 70–72, pl. 121; Gowing 1966, pp. 38, 51, repr. in colour p. 40; Lindsay 1966, pp. 212–13; 1966<sup>2</sup>, pp. 52, 55–6; Gage 1968, p. 685; Gage 1969, pp. 173, 185–8, 190, 194, colour pl. 51; Reynolds 1969, pp. 150, 192–6, colour pl. 161; Hermann 1975, pp. 50–51, 233, pl. 151; Heffernan 1978, pp. 142–3; Wallace 1979, pp. 109, 113–14, pl. 14; Wilton 1979, pp. 155, 200–2, 216, pl. 231; Wilton 1980, p. 141; Butlin 1981, pp. 43–5; Paulson 1982, p. 68.</p>
<p>Exhibited in 1843 with the following lines:</p>
<p>‘The morn put forth her sign of woe unheeded;
<br/>But disobedience slept; the dark'ning Deluge closed around,
<br/>And the last token came: the giant framework floated,</p>
<p>The roused birds forsook their nightly shelters screaming
<br/>And the beasts waded to the ark’.</p>
<p align="right">—<i>Fallacies of Hope M.S.</i></p>
<p>These verses echo both Thomas Gisborne's <i>Walks in a Forest</i> and Shelley's <i>Prometheus Unbound</i>.</p>
<p>See under the companion <i>Light and Colour (Goethe's Theory)—The Morning after the Deluge—Moses writing the Book of Genesis</i> (No. 405 [<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-light-and-colour-goethes-theory-the-morning-after-the-deluge-moses-writing-the-book-n00532" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N00532</span></a>]). For what is almost certainly a first version of the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> see No. 443.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, <i>The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner</i>, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984
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2004-09-22T00:00:00
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abstraction animals: mammals Bible: Old Testament coast dog - non-specific emotions, concepts and ideas evening flood Flood formal qualities from recognisable sources gestural horse landscape rain religion and belief seascapes and coasts storm times of the day weather