Watercolour on paper
Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45
Coastal Scenes and Shipping c.1820-45
Tate Collection
Works with images
Joseph Mallord William Turner
Turner Bequest
Collection
Turner owned by Tate
Catalogued Turner works on paper
<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>
Beach
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
landscape
sky
<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
9 June 2003 – 10 May 2004
2004-05-10
24 October 2003 – 3 January 2004
2004-01-03
2003-10-24
Manchester Art Gallery (Manchester, UK)
http://www.manchestergalleries.org
15 February 2004 – 10 May 2004
2004-05-10
2004-02-15
Burrell Collection (Glasgow, UK)
2003-06-09
Turner: The Late Seascapes
Loan-out
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
17 June 2017 – 3 September 2017
2017-09-03
17 June 2017 – 3 September 2017
2017-09-03
2017-06-17
Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, UK)
2017-06-17
Air
Loan-out
Beach
support: 290 × 437 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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