Watercolour on paper
Colour Studies of Clouds, Storms and a Rainbow
Colour Studies of the Sun, Skies and Clouds c..1815-45
Colour Studies of Clouds, Storms and a Rainbow
Colour Studies of the Sun, Skies and Clouds c..1815-45
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
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Storm Clouds Perhaps above a Beach
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
cloud
landscape
sky
storm
weather
<p>The modern concept of abstraction would not have been understood or endorsed in the nineteenth century, even by an artist as experimental as Turner. He would not have intended these late, loose colour beginnings to have been exhibited during his lifetime.</p><p>Nevertheless, in each of these works the elements of the composition are reduced to the barest representation of sea and sky. These private, informal studies reveal Turner’s intuitive ability to think of landscape in terms of pure colour.</p><p><em>Gallery label, April 2005</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
23 March 2005 – 16 October 2005
2005-10-16
2005-03-23
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
Tate Liverpool (Liverpool, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/
2005-03-23
Turner and the Sea
Collection based display
16 February 2011 – 21 August 2011
2011-08-21
16 February 2011 – 21 August 2011
2011-08-21
2011-02-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2011-02-16
Watercolour
Exhibition
13 October 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
13 October 2017 – 14 January 2018
2018-01-14
2017-10-13
Turner Contemporary (Margate, UK)
2017-10-13
My Bed
Loan-out
6 July 2019 – 2 May 2021
2021-05-02
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
Storm Clouds, Perhaps above a Beach
support: 247 × 304 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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<span class="text1">The modern concept of abstraction would not have been      understood or endorsed in the nineteenth century, even by an artist as      experimental as Turner. He would not have intended these late, loose colour      beginnings to have been exhibited during his lifetime. </span>
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<span class="text1">Nevertheless, in each of these works the elements of      the composition are reduced to the barest representation of sea and sky.      These private, informal studies reveal Turner’s intuitive ability to      think of landscape in terms of pure colour. </span>
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