Turner The Late Seascapes Author:James Hamilton The English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner (17751851) is renowned for his sublime and dramatic landscapes and seascapes. This handsome bookwritten by Turner expert James Hamilton and published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institutefocuses primarily on the artist... more »146;s spectacular seascapes dating from the 1840s, the last decade of his illustrious career. Turner: The Late Seascapes provides new and provocative insights into these powerful works, relating them to the artists interest in poetry and drama as well as his curiosity about science, optics, and photography. Turners extensive travels and the relationship between Turners paintings and seventeenth-century Dutch precedents are discussed in depth. Hamilton also examines the important role of the pendant in Turners late art, arguing that his paired works have intentional associative narrative, stylistic, and chromatic meanings. Furthermore, Hamilton traces the evolution of Turners famous Whaling series, offering a new source for it. Including more than one hundred examples of Turners dramatic and lively marine picturessixty of which are reproduced in full colorthis elegant book sheds fascinating new light on one of the worlds most beloved artists.« less