J.M.W. TURNER : PAINTING SET FREE Edited by David Blayney Brown, Amy Concannon, and Sam Smiles 256 pages, 130 color illustrations Released in September, 2014

About Turner - Born in London in 1775 - Entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1789 - Member of the Royal Academy in 1802 - Diverse works : drawings, prints, watercolors, oils - Traveled a lot - Died in 1851

Contents Part I : Essays - Turner In and Out of Time, Sam Smiles - The Later Life of Turner: Body and Mind, Brian Livesly - 'Born again': Old and New in Turner's Later Work, David B. Brown - 'Ain't they worth more?': Turner's Later Watercolours, Amy Concannon - Materials, Technique and Condition in Turner's Later Paintings, Rebecca Hellen and Joyce H. Townsend

Contents Part II : The Catalogue – Decline and Fall : Turner's Old Age and his Early Biographers, Sam Smiles – Turner Elsewhere: Travel and Tours 1835-45, Nicola Moorby – 'Poetical' or 'Preposterous'? History Painting, David B. Brown – Turner and Modern History, Sam Smiles – Squaring the Circle: New Formats from 1840, David B. Brown – Horizons: Sea and Sky, Amy Concannon – Reflection and Retrospect, David B. Brown

The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free Tate Britain, London from September 15, 2014, through January 18, 2015 J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles from February 24 through May 24, 2015 de Young Museum in San Francisco from June 20 through September 20, 2015

Late Turner – Painting Set Free The EY Exhibition: Late Turner – Painting Set Free 'It is actually the first comprehensive show devoted to Late Turner (...) As far as Turner is concerned, we are showing the late work in all its aspects – landscape, history, myth, modern life, the machine age of steamers and trains. We hope there will be a sense of transition but also synthesis in the work shown.' David B. Brown for Apollo, the International Art Magazine, September, 4, 2014

Joseph M. W. Turner, The Wreck Buoy, 1847

Joseph M. W. Turner, Heidelberg, 1846

Joseph M. W. Turner, Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, 1837

Bibliography - BLOWNEY BROWN David, SMILES Sam, CONCANNON Amy (Eds), J.M.W. Turner : Painting Set Free (Millbank: Tate Publication, 2014) -https://shop.getty.edu/products/j-m-w-turner-painting-set-free-978-1606064276 - https://www.apollo-magazine.com/ey-exhibition-late-turner-painting-set-free-tate-britain/