Oil paint on canvas
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Oil paintings
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joseph-mallord-william-turner-558" aria-label="More by Joseph Mallord William Turner" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Joseph Mallord William Turner</a>
An Avenue Trees
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
abstraction
architecture
avenue
from recognisable sources
landscape
landscape
townscapes / man-made features
wooded
painting oil paint canvas
16 April 2013 – 30 June 2013
2013-06-30
16 April 2013
2013-04-16
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2013-04-16
Elements of Nature
Collection based display
An Avenue of Trees
support: 495 × 537 mm
frame: 625 × 670 × 95 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
<p><b>246.</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-an-avenue-of-trees-n05483" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05483</span></a>]<b> An Avenue of Trees</b> <i>c.</i> 1822?</p>
<p>THE TATE GALLERY, LONDON (5483)</p>
<p>Canvas, 19 1/2 × 21 1/8 (49·5 × 53·5)</p>
<p><b>Coll.</b> Turner Bequest 1856 (177, I unidentified 1'9 1/4" × 1'7 1/2"; identified 1946 by chalk number on back); transferred to the Tate Gallery 1947.</p>
<p><b>Lit.</b> Davies 1946, pp. 158, 189.</p>
<p>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> is perhaps related to the background of <i>What You Will!</i>, exhibited in 1822 (No. 229), though in reverse. Turner overpainted the tops of the trees as sky, but the tops of the two trees in the centre are not completely covered.</p>
<p>There are considerable losses of original paint down the left-hand edge.</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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Catalogue entry
2004-10-07T00:00:00
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
abstraction architecture avenue from recognisable sources landscape landscape townscapes / man-made features wooded