Turner's Golden Visions
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TURNER'S
GOLDEN VISIONS
BY
C. LEWIS HIND
WITH FIFTY OF THE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS
OF TURNER REPRODUCED IN COLOUR
NOTE
PART ONE
A MEMORY: TELLS OF A BOY WHO LOVED TURNER'S 'VIEW OF ORVIETO'
THE BOY AND GOLDEN ORVIETO
THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER'S ART LIFE
THE BOY WONDERS AT TURNER THE DUMB POET
THE BOY, HAVING BECOME A MAN, WONDERS AT THE 'INVENTORY' OF THE TURNER BEQUEST DRAWINGS
PART TWO
FROM 'FOLLY BRIDGE' TO 'CALAIS PIER'
BIRTHPLACE AND PARENTS
HE EXHIBITS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY AND IS DESCRIBED AS A LIGHT-HEARTED, MERRY CREATURE
THE DRAWINGS OF 'THE INGENIUS MR. TURNER' ARE STATED BY A NEWSPAPER OF THE DAY TO BE 'TINCTURED WITH TRUTH AND FIDELITY'
HIS FIRST OIL PICTURES AND EXTRACTS FROM HIS SKETCH-BOOKS
HE EXHIBITS GRANDILOQUENT 'JASON' AND A SIMPLE 'VIEW ON CLAPHAM COMMON'
THE YEAR OF 'CALAIS PIER'
PART THREE
FROM 'THE SHIPWRECK' TO AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION
HE STUDIES AN ECLIPSE AND PAINTS THE SUNSET
HE PAINTS 'THE SHIPWRECK' FOR FAME, AND BEGINS A SERIES OF 'DELIGHT STUDIES' FOR LOVE
THE CHAOS OF THE 'HESPERIDES' AND THE PEACE OF 'ABINGDON'
HE BEGINS THE 'LIBER STUDIORUM' AND EXHIBITS 'THE SUN RISING THROUGH VAPOUR'
HE WRITES P.P. AFTER HIS NAME AND PAINTS IN A GARDEN AT HAMMERSMITH
HE EXHIBITS THE GLOWING 'RIVER SCENE WITH CATTLE,' AND REFUSES TO SELL 'BLIGH SAND'
A QUIET YEAR AND AN EARLY GOLDEN VISION
PART FOUR
FROM A JOURNEY TO DEVONSHIRE TO HIS RETURN FROM ITALY
'APOLLO KILLING THE PYTHON' AND A PICNIC
HE EXHIBITS 'HANNIBAL CROSSING THE ALPS,' SUGGESTED BY A SNOWSTORM HE HAD SEEN AT FARNLEY
HOAR FROST AT SUNRISE THAT HAS VANISHED FROM 'A FROSTY MORNING'
HE PAINTS MORE CLASSICAL PICTURES, TURNS AUTHOR, AND IS HAPPY AT SANDYCOMBE
'A WONDERFUL YEAR' AND A TURNERIAN LOVE-LETTER
SKIES! SKIES! SKIES!
HE SELLS FIFTY WATER-COLOURS TO MR. FAWKES OF FARNLEY HALL
'THE ABBOTSFORD TURNERS,' AND AN AUCTION PRICE OF A TURNER WATER-COLOUR
TURNER'S FIRST VISIT TO ITALY, AND AN EXHIBITION IN GROSVENOR PLACE
RETURN FROM ITALY: HE BEGINS TO SIGHT HIS MYSTICAL VISIONS
PART FIVE
FROM 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ TO 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS'
HE THROWS OFF ANOTHER 'NORHAM CASTLE' AND PREPARES TO STARTLE THE WORLD WITH 'THE BAY OF BAIÆ'
'THE BAY OF BAIÆ': A CRITIC IS CRITICAL, AND A PAINTER IS ENTHUSIASTIC
A GLANCE AT SOME OF 'THE RIVERS OF ENGLAND' AND 'HARBOURS OF ENGLAND' WATER-COLOURS
A SOMEWHAT BARREN YEAR COMMENTED ON IN A BITTER LAMENT BY RUSKIN
ANOTHER UNIMPORTANT YEAR, IN WHICH HE LEAVES TWICKENHAM
HE PAINTS THE SEA IN THE OPEN, AND SOME THAMES-SIDE PICTURES
THE YEAR WHEN CONSTABLE DESCRIBED TURNER'S VISIONS AS 'GOLDEN, GLORIOUS, AND BEAUTIFUL'
THE YEAR OF 'ULYSSES DERIDING POLYPHEMUS'
PART SIX
FROM THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' TO THE PERIOD OF THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS
HE PAINTS THE 'INTERIOR AT PETWORTH' AND MOURNS THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, AND OF SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE
HE TURNS HIS 'MAGIC LIMELIGHT' ON 'CALIGULA'S PALACE AND BRIDGE'; VISITS SIR WALTER SCOTT, AND MAKES HIS WILL
HE PAINTS 'CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE' AND IS JOCULAR ON VARNISHING DAY
HE PAINTS HIS FIRST 'VENICE' PICTURE AND RE-PURCHASES SOME OF HIS OWN DRAWINGS AT AUCTION
SOME OLD STORIES AND SOME AGELESS COLOUR STUDIES
PART SEVEN
FROM A CONSIDERATION OF THE 'UNFINISHED OILS TO' RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED' AND THE LAST SKETCH-BOOKS
SOME REMARKS ON THE 'UNFINISHED' OILS, AND BLACKWOOD'S ATTACK ON HIS 'VENICE' PICTURE OF THIS YEAR
THE RECEPTION OF 'JULIET AND HER NURSE' PROCLAIMS THAT TURNER IS BEGINNING TO LOSE FAVOUR WITH THE PUBLIC
'TROUBLES BEGIN TO GATHER ABOUT HIM. NOTHING WILL GO RIGHT'
A 'NONSENSE PICTURE' OF 1838 WHICH IN 1878 FETCHED £5460 AT AUCTION
'THE FIGHTING TÉMÉRAIRE,' AND A SEA-PIECE ON A VISITING-CARD
A CONTRAST BETWEEN THE TERRIFIC 'SLAVE SHIP' AND THE MILD 'NEW MOON'
HOW TURNER DID IT? HE 'GRASPED THE HANDLE AND PLUNGED THE WHOLE DRAWING INTO A PAIL OF WATER'
'THE SNOWSTORM' AND SOME 'FAULTLESS' WATER-COLOURS
VISIONS OF VENICE AND THE FIRST VOLUME OF 'MODERN PAINTERS'
HE EXHIBITS 'RAIN, STEAM AND SPEED,' AND TWICE TRIES TO CROSS THE ALPS ON FOOT
PICTURES OF WHALERS, AND AN ENTRY ON THE LAST PAGE OF HIS LAST SKETCH-BOOK
PART EIGHT
THE YEARS OF DECLINE—AND THE END
THE BEGINNING OF TURNER'S DECLINE, AND A 'GREY, DIM DRAWING'
HE DISAPPEARS FROM HIS OLD HAUNTS, AND IS INTERESTED IN OPTICS AND PHOTOGRAPHY
HIS LAST FOUR PICTURES PAINTED IN HIDING AT CHELSEA
THE MYSTERY OF THE LAST YEARS OF HIS LIFE REVEALED TO HIS FRIENDS: AND HIS DEATH
PART NINE
AFTER TURNER'S DEATH TO THE OPENING OF THE TURNER GALLERY IN 1910
VICISSITUDES OF THE TURNER BEQUEST
1906: EXHIBITION OF THE 'UNFINISHED' TURNERS AT THE TATE GALLERY
1908: FIFTY-TWO MORE 'UNEXHIBITED' TURNERS SHOWN AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY
1910: THE NEW 'TURNER GALLERY' AT MILLBANK
TURNER AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY—AND CLAUDE. A LAST LOOK
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