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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    View of Lucerne
    Joseph Mallord William Turner. View of Lucerne, 1840/41. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002198

    View of Lucerne

    by Joseph Mallord William Turner

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    John Ruskin (died 1900), London [according to Armstrong 1902]. Bernard Buchanan MacGeorge (died 1924), Glasgow, by 1901 [Lugt 394; according to Armstrong 1902]. Sold by Hans Calmann, London, to the Art Institute, 1960.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 128. Santa Barbara, Calif., Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 104. New York, Museum of Modern Art, "Turner: Imagination and Reality," 1966, cat. 80, cat. by Lawrence Gowing. Berkeley, Calif., Berkeley University Art Museum, "J.M.W. Turner: Works on Paper from American Collections," August 18-December 19, 1975. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 124-125, cat. 55 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 19, 1986. The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Broad Spectrum: Color on Paper, Past and Present," September 12–October 31, 1999, hors. cat.

    Publications

    Walter Armstrong, Turner (London, 1902), p. 286. Martha Tedeschi, “Phineas Borret’s Farm near Saffron Walden, 1802,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 62-63, cat. 26, fig. 22.

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Joseph Mallord William Turner / English, 1775-1851
    Date
    1840/41
    Medium
    Watercolor, with scraping on white wove paper
    Dimensions
    23.3 × 29.2 cm (9 3/16 × 11 1/2 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    watercolor
    Place
    England
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Miss Margaret Mower in memory of her mother, Mrs. Elsa Durand Mower
    Accession no.
    1960.10

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