Turner’s Modern World

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

March 27 to July 10, 2022

 

Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) by Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775–1851) 1840. Oil on canvas, 90.8 x 122.6 cm (35 3/4 x 48 1/4 in.) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

This spring, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, brings focus to a pair of differing game-changer artists, J. M. W. Turner and Philip Guston, who responded to their own tumultuous times with innovative artistic visions. 

One of Britain’s greatest artists, J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851) lived and worked at the peak of the industrial revolution, when steam replaced sail, machine power replaced manpower, and wars, political unrest and social reforms transformed society. At the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from March 27 to July 10, 2022, the exhibition Turner’s Modern World will explore how this artist, more than any of his contemporaries, embraced these changes and developed an innovative painting style to better capture this new world.

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This landmark exhibition brings together more than 100 paintings, watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks by Turner, including Tate Britain’s Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, October 16, 1834 (1835) from the Cleveland Museum of Art and the MFA’s own Slave Ship (1840). These vivid and dramatic compositions demonstrate Turner’s commitment to depicting the great events and developments of his time, from technological advances to causes such as abolition and political reform. Turner’s Modern World is organized by Tate Britain in association with the Kimbell Art Museum and the MFA.