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YCBA/lido-TMS-1095 http://www.cidoc-crm.org/cidoc-crm/E22_Human-Made_Object Human-Made Object 300033618 painting 300015636 landscape 300033618 Painting Stormy Sea Breaking on a Shore Waves breaking on the Shore 500303557 Yale Center for British Art http://britishart.yale.edu B1981.25.632 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23700444 Not on view Yale Center for British Art 41.3080060, -72.9306282 17 1/2 x 25 inches (44.5 x 63.5 cm) height cm 44.5 width cm 63.5 22 1/4 × 30 1/2 × 2 1/2 inches (56.5 × 77.5 × 6.4 cm) height cm 56.5 width cm 77.5 depth cm 6.4 Frame 1095 300054713 production Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851, British born in London, England,1775; active in England; died in London, England, 1851 ycba_actor_21 http://catalogo.bne.es/uhtbin/authoritybrowse.cgi?action=display&authority_id=XX865570 http://d-nb.info/gnd/11862475X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._M._W._Turner http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79060712 http://id.ndl.go.jp/auth/ndlna/00459271 http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/0000000121454990 http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/277878 http://viaf.org/viaf/100900492 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500026846 http://www.idref.fr/027332446/id http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/27/101027854/ https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6057d6v https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q159758 Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner JMW Turner J. M. W. Turner R. A. Turner Joseph Mallord William, 1775–1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851 Joseph Mallord William Turner, 1775–1851 7002445 7011781 4012680 British 1775 1851 male 300025103 Artist 300112172 draftsman (artist) 300236992 landscapist 300025136 painter (artist) 300025157 watercolorist 300111159 British between 1840 and 1845 1840 1845 24 19th century Oil on canvas 300014078 canvas 300230810 oil paint 300054216 painting (technique) J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality (Yale Center for British Art, 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27) 1090 https://britishart.yale.edu/node/1728 300054766 exhibition J.M.W. Turner: Romance & Reality Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 201 British Art Center YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art 1977 0 2025-03-29 - 2025-07-27 2025-03-29 2025-07-27 Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300435424 The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), possibly the most widely admired and influential British artist of all time. Though Turner was trained within the English topographical tradition, his practice was deeply rooted in a wider European heritage of landscape painting. Turner pushed this inheritance to its limits in pursuit of his own expressive ends, astounding contemporaries with his bold and highly original compositions. His unique approach paved the way for a new form of landscape art, one that combined virtuoso brushwork with brilliant color, dazzling light effects, and an almost abstract sensibility. As a result, Turner came to be recognized as the most radical and innovative painter of his time and has continued to be so ever since. This exhibition, the first show focused on Turner to be held at the Yale Center for British Art in more than thirty years, will showcase the museum’s rich holdings of the artist’s work. Unequaled in North America, this collection includes some of Turner’s most acclaimed oil paintings, notably his masterpiece Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort Packet-Boat from Rotterdam Becalmed (1818) and his celebrated later painting Staffa, Fingal’s Cave (1831–32). Alongside these major works, the exhibition will also feature outstanding watercolors and prints from the YCBA’s collection, including the artist’s only complete sketchbook outside of the British Isles. Turner’s works are akin to painted poems, filled with incident, anecdote, and symbolism. Conveying both the beauty and cruelty of nature and human life, they shed fascinating light on the artist’s world and reveal an aesthetic—and moral—complexity that is at once discomforting and strangely modern. The exhibition is generously supported by the Dr. Lee MacCormick Edwards Charitable Foundation. Yale Center for British Art In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art (Yale University Art Gallery, 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03) 1075 https://media.art.yale.edu/content/lux/exb/5069.json https://britishart.yale.edu/node/1791 300054766 exhibition In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art Yale Center for British Art Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 Yale University Art Gallery YUAG 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2023-03-24 - 2023-12-03 2023-03-24 2023-12-03 Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 Yale University Art Gallery 300435424 More than fifty paintings from the Yale Center for British Art are on view at the Yale University Art Gallery through December 3, 2023. The exhibition offers visitors the opportunity to engage with the YCBA’s collection while the museum is closed to the public for a building conservation project. The exhibition spans four centuries of British landscape and portraiture traditions, with works by Mary Beale, John Constable, Thomas Gainsborough, William Hogarth, Gwen John, Angelica Kauffman, George Stubbs, and Joseph Mallord William Turner, among others. Several of these paintings were on view at the Gallery in 2015, where they were featured in The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860, the first major collaborative exhibition between the two Yale art museums. --- --- In a New Light occupies the special-exhibition galleries on the fourth floor of the Gallery’s Kahn building, which opened in 1953 and was the architect’s first significant commission and the first modernist structure on Yale’s campus. Directly across the street, Kahn’s final building, the YCBA, was completed after his death and opened to the public in 1977. Yale Center for British Art Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England (Worcester Art Museum, 2017-11-11 - 2018-02-04) 915 300054766 exhibition Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England Yale Center for British Art Worcester Art Museum ycba_actor_3013 James Welu Worcester Art Museum 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2017-11-11 - 2018-02-04 2017-11-11 2018-02-04 Worcester Art Museum ycba_actor_3013 Worcester Art Museum Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England (Milwaukee Art Museum, 2018-03-02 - 2018-05-20) 915 300054766 exhibition Coming Away : Winslow Homer in England Yale Center for British Art Milwaukee Art Museum ycba_actor_6964 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500302980 Milwaukee Art Museum 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2018-03-02 - 2018-05-20 2018-03-02 2018-05-20 Milwaukee Art Museum ycba_actor_6964 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500302980 Milwaukee Art Museum Touchstone Turner (Turner Contemporary, 2014-01-25 - 2014-05-11) 790 300054766 exhibition Touchstone Turner Yale Center for British Art Turner Contemporary ycba_actor_10802 Turner Contemporary 0 0 2014-01-25 - 2014-05-11 2014-01-25 2014-05-11 Turner Contemporary ycba_actor_10802 Turner Contemporary Turner : The Late Seascapes (Clark Art Institute, 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-08) 144 300054766 exhibition Turner : The Late Seascapes Yale Center for British Art Clark Art Institute ycba_actor_6082 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500125194 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1465805 https://viaf.org/viaf/145164344 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096939 Mattie Kelley Registrar Kris Walton Asst Registrar Clark Art Institute Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2003-06-14 - 2003-09-08 2003-06-14 2003-09-08 Clark Art Institute ycba_actor_6082 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78096939 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500125194 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1465805 https://viaf.org/viaf/145164344 Clark Art Institute Turner : The Late Seascapes (Manchester City Galleries, 2003-11-01 - 2004-01-25) 144 300054766 exhibition Turner : The Late Seascapes Yale Center for British Art Manchester City Galleries ycba_actor_1288 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500225336 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2638817 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80159134 1327 1328 Manchester City Art Gallery Manchester City Galleries 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2003-11-01 - 2004-01-25 2003-11-01 2004-01-25 Manchester City Galleries ycba_actor_1288 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80159134 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500225336 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2638817 Manchester City Galleries Turner : The Late Seascapes (Burrell Collection, 2004-02-15 - 2004-05-14) 144 300054766 exhibition Turner : The Late Seascapes Yale Center for British Art Burrell Collection ycba_actor_6495 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500264081 Burrell Collection 0 0 300311675 Borrower 2004-02-15 - 2004-05-14 2004-02-15 2004-05-14 Burrell Collection ycba_actor_6495 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500264081 Burrell Collection Late Turner (Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC, 1999-04-01 - 1999-06-05) 36 300054766 exhibition Late Turner Yale Center for British Art Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC ycba_actor_2302 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304333 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC Frederic Bancroft Elisabeth Stevens 0 0 300025633 Curator 300311675 Borrower 1999-04-01 - 1999-06-05 1999-04-01 1999-06-05 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC ycba_actor_2302 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304333 Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Indiana University Art Museum, 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06) 397 300054766 exhibition William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Yale Center for British Art Indiana University Art Museum ycba_actor_7182 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304613 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6023573 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016032094 Indiana University Art Museum 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1988-01-27 - 1988-03-06 1988-01-27 1988-03-06 Indiana University Art Museum ycba_actor_7182 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016032094 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304613 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q6023573 Indiana University Art Museum William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (Chicago Historical Society, 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05) 397 300054766 exhibition William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Yale Center for British Art Chicago Historical Society ycba_actor_7183 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304670 Chicago Historical Society 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1988-04-06 - 1988-06-05 1988-04-06 1988-06-05 Chicago Historical Society ycba_actor_7183 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500304670 Chicago Historical Society William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism (New York Public Library, 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02) 397 300054766 exhibition William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism Yale Center for British Art New York Public Library ycba_actor_5984 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303617 New York Public Library 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1987-10-31 - 1988-01-02 1987-10-31 1988-01-02 New York Public Library ycba_actor_5984 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303617 New York Public Library J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (National Gallery of Art, 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21) 605 300054766 exhibition J. M. W. Turner - A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Yale Center for British Art National Gallery of Art ycba_actor_1651 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115983 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q214867 https://viaf.org/viaf/157699250 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69638c2 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054426 National Gallery of Art Earl A. Powell III Naomi R. Remes Stephenie Belt Sally Freitag Registrar Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1968-10-31 - 1969-04-21 1968-10-31 1969-04-21 National Gallery of Art ycba_actor_1651 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054426 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115983 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q214867 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69638c2 https://viaf.org/viaf/157699250 National Gallery of Art Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon (Yale University Art Gallery, 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20) 610 300054766 exhibition Painting in England 1700-1850 - From The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon Yale Center for British Art Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 Yale University Art Gallery YUAG 0 0 300311675 Borrower 1965-04-15 - 1965-06-20 1965-04-15 1965-06-20 Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 Yale University Art Gallery 1095 995824523408651 582452 NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 10948405 193 300054686 publication event Martin Butlin, ^The paintings of J.M.W. Turner^, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, p. 284, 291, 293, no. 482, pl. 483, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Martin Butlin ycba_actor_8278 Butlin Martin 300025492 Author Evelyn Joll ycba_actor_8110 Joll Evelyn 300025492 Author Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ycba_actor_5853 1381 1382 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79109777 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500301928 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q7152454 https://viaf.org/viaf/131545782 Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 300025574 Publisher 1984 1984 1984 New Haven 1095 995830003408651 583000 N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 13422488 323 300054686 publication event Malcolm Cormack, ^Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 228-229, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Malcolm Cormack ycba_actor_6010 Cormack Malcolm 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 1985 1985 1985 New Haven, CT 1095 9998033003408651 9803300 V 2333 (YCBA) 1824 300054686 publication event ^Genius Defined^, Time, vol. 82, July 5, 1963, p.62, V 2333 (YCBA) Hard Copy also available at SML - AP2 T55 + Yale Center for British Art July 5, 1963 1963 1963 1095 997628843408651 762884 N1 C75 + Oversize (YCBA) 960056578 893 300054686 publication event Luke Herrmann, ^The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House^, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Luke Herrmann ycba_actor_8302 Herrmann Luke 300025492 Author December 1964 1964 1964 1095 9935107753408651 3510775 NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA) 15934870 711 300054686 publication event ^J.M.W. Turner : a selection of paintings from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, ^, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1968, pp. 14, 30, no. 15, fig. 15, NJ18 T85 U5 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art National Gallery of Art ycba_actor_1651 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79054426 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115983 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q214867 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w69638c2 https://viaf.org/viaf/157699250 National Gallery of Art 300025574 Publisher 1968 1968 1968 Washington, D.C. 1095 9935180463408651 3518046 ND466 .V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) 2187354 230 300054686 publication event ^Painting in England 1700-1850 : collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon : Exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, ^, , Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 1963, p. 92, no. 136, pl. 192, ND466 .V57 v.1-2 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Virginia Museum of Fine Arts ycba_actor_1286 2189 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79046025 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500310718 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q4013975 https://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6991x8v https://viaf.org/viaf/148748621 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 300025574 Publisher 1963 1963 1963 Richmond, VA 1095 9937277893408651 3727789 N5220 .M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) 1120143160 464 300054686 publication event ^Painting in England 1700-1850 from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, The Royal Academy of Arts Winter Exhibition 1964-65., ^, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK, 1964, p. 44 (v.1), no. 163, pl. 63, N5220 .M45 R69 1964 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Royal Academy of Arts ycba_actor_5870 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80032672 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500115632 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q270920 https://viaf.org/viaf/153543255 Royal Academy of Arts 300025574 Publisher 1964 1964 1964 London, UK 1095 99159000013408651 N5220 .M45 Y35 1965 (YCBA) 913399536 317 300054686 publication event ^Painting in England, 1700-1850, from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, ^, , Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1965, p. 51 (v.1), no. 192, pl. 63, N5220 .M45 Y35 1965 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Yale University Art Gallery ycba_actor_1258 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79129213 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303559 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1568434 https://viaf.org/viaf/158793816 Yale University Art Gallery 300025574 Publisher 1965 1965 1965 New Haven 1095 99155446653408651 15544665 NJ18.T85 S65 2020 Oversize (YCBA) 1127190541 4562 300054686 publication event Tony Smibert, ^Turner's Apprentice : a watercolour class^, Thames and Hudson, 2020, p. 117, NJ18.T85 S65 2020 Oversize (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Tony Smibert ycba_actor_13812 Smibert Tony 300025492 Author Thames and Hudson ycba_actor_8283 Thames and Hudson 300025574 Publisher 2020 2020 2020 1095 994668423408651 466842 N1 A54 + (YCBA) 01481683 1679 300054686 publication event Denys Sutton, ^Some English Landscapes in Mr. Mellon's Collection^, Apollo, vol. 77, April 1963, p. 281-282, Pl. VI, N1 A54 + (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Denys Sutton ycba_actor_9129 Sutton Denys 300025492 Author April 1963 1963 1963 1095 99176300343408651 17630034 NJ18 .T85 W37 2025 (YCBA) 1449673744 5565 300054686 publication event Ian Warrell, ^Turner^, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2025, pp. 26, 27, 97, 98, 102-103, pl. 63, NJ18 .T85 W37 2025 (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Ian Warrell ycba_actor_8253 Warrell Ian 300025492 Author Yale Center for British Art, founded 1977 ycba_actor_1281 201 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n77005277 http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500303557 https://viaf.org/viaf/155449049 https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6352575 Yale Center for British Art 300025574 Publisher 2025 2025 2025 New Haven 1095 992079583408651 207958 NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 5580881 1535 300054686 publication event Andrew Wilton, ^The life and work of J.M.W. Turner^, Academy Editions, London, 1979, p. 293, no. P482, NJ18 T85 +W577 OVERSIZE (YCBA) Yale Center for British Art Andrew Wilton ycba_actor_1892 Wilton Andrew 300025492 Author Academy Editions ycba_actor_8657 Academy Editions 300025574 Publisher 1979 1979 1979 London 1095 300157782 acquisition Yale Center for British Art ycba_actor_1281 YCBA BAC Yale Center for British Art British Art Center 1977 0 300203630 Owner 1981 1981 1981 300138913 gift This small but powerful late sketch exemplifies the painterly approach that one critic, writing of a contemporary exhibition work, derided as “soap suds and whitewash.” Turner furiously responded that his intention was not “to paint to be understood but to show what [it] was like.” Using rapid, gestural brushstrokes and a limited color palette, Turner conveys the dizzying intensity of the sea and wind. Crashing waves scatter spray across the middle ground of the image, while light breaks through in a way that hints at the sharp breeze driving the clouds apart. It was this pursuit of sheer physical intensity, in both subject and style, that defied the proprieties of conventional landscape painting and bemused so many of Turner’s contemporaries, critics and public alike. --- --- Gallery label for J. M. W. Turner: Romance and Reality (Yale Center for British Art, March - 29, 2025 - July 27, 2025) 1095 300048722 Gallery label 2025 In later life, J. M. W. Turner spent much of the year living incognito in Chelsea, London, with Sophia Booth, his mistress and housekeeper. Turner had met the widowed Mrs. Booth in Margate and adopted the pseudonym of Captain Booth to preserve his anonymity, passing himself off as a retired seaman. Though ailing physically, he traveled to Switzerland most summers until 1845 and spent a great deal of time in Margate studying the sea. After Turner’s death, a cache of studies of the sea like this one were found in his Chelsea studio. The exact status of these small oil studies is contested, but most of them are uncharacteristically devoid of human presence and are instead pure studies of the power of nature achieved with an almost monochrome palette. --- --- Gallery label for installation of YCBA collection, 2016 1095 300048722 Gallery label 2016 Created by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775–1851), the artist; … [1]; acquired in London by Emily Sherrill Eames MacVeagh (1842–1916) and Franklin MacVeagh (1837–1934) of Chicago, 1889 [2][a][b]; by descent to their son, Eames MacVeagh (1871–1958), Chicago; by inheritance to his wife, Zelie Antonette MacVeagh (née Barthélemy) (1887–1973), Washington, D.C. [3]; purchased in Washington, DC, by Sir Geoffrey William Gerald Agnew (1908–1986), Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, 1961 [4][c]; purchased by Paul Mellon (1907–1999), 1962 [d]; by whom given to the Yale Center for British Art, 1981. --- --- Notes: --- [1] The whereabouts of the painting prior to the acquisition by the MacVeaghs in 1889, is not certain. There are several labels extant on the stretcher bar and frame on the reverse of the painting. A torn handwritten label on the stretcher bar reads: "[N]o. 14. J. M. W. Turn[er] Coast Sc[ene]." A printed partially torn label from Thos. Agnew & Sons includes the stock number 22699. A printed label gives: "JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM TURNER, R. A. British: 1775–1851 50. The Storm. Height, 17 ½ in.; width, 25 inc. (See illustration)." A pink printed label reads: "OWNER MELLON, Mr. Paul ARTIST TURNER, J. M. W. TITLE Stormy Sea Breaking on Shore National Gallery of Art PM1031." There are also two printed labels from the Yale Center for British Art and British Studies, one with a handwritten note of "IR 27" and one with "#44 Seascape." A printed label with handwritten notations from the Department of Fine Arts at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg, PA, titles the painting as "STORMY SEA BREAKING ON A SHORE" with "Paul Mellon (ANONYMOUS LOAN)" listed as the owner for an exhibition at the museum in 1965. --- --- [2] Franklin MacVeagh, the 45th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, was also a prominent Chicago lawyer, banker, and politician. He married Emily Sherrill Eames in 1868. In a letter from Interlaken, Switzerland, dated August 1889, Emily wrote to her friend the writer Amelia Gere Mason (1831–1923), sharing details from the England portion of the family's European travels: "We bought two beautiful pictures, one a coast scene in oil by J.M.W. Turner—wasn’t that a find?" She also mentioned the family had spent three weeks in London, suggesting the purchase likely occurred there. --- --- According to the Chicago Inter Ocean, the MacVeaghs departed for Europe on June 8, 1889, aboard the Cunard liner RMS Umbria, traveling from New York to Liverpool. The New York Herald reported their arrival in Europe by June 18. The Inter Ocean later recorded Emily and her son Emes returning from France to New York by October 9. On November 23, the paper also reported her import of nine cases of furniture, confirmed in her letter to Amelia—likely including the Turner painting. This timeline suggests the painting was probably acquired between mid-June and August 1889, before their stays in Switzerland and subsequently France, as mentioned in the same letter. --- --- [3] Zelie Antonette (also spelled Zélie or Antoinette) Barthélemy married Eames MacVeagh in 1929. She was a prominent arts patron in Chicago and later in Washington, DC, where she spent her final years. --- --- [4] Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll state that Sir Geoffrey Agnew purchased the painting in Washington, DC. This is where Zelie Antonette MacVeagh (née Bathélemy) (1887–1973) lived. --- --- Citations: --- [a] Amelia Gere Mason, Memories of a Friend (Chicago: Laurence C. Woodworth, 1918): 76-77. --- --- [b] "Personal," Chicago Inter Ocean, June 9, 1889. --- --- [c] Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977): 263. --- --- [d] Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, p. 284, 291, 293, no. 482, pl. 483 --- --- 1095 300055863 Provenance ycba_term_2036258 sky 300117546 ycba_term_39843 seascape 300015636 ycba_term_149705 landscape 300210803 ycba_term_143468 sun 300054462 ycba_term_7859 science 300054550 ycba_term_7783 meteorology 300056362 ycba_term_1556 texture 300056024 ycba_term_525 light 300056508 ycba_term_2036209 abstract art 300008694 ycba_term_32367 sea 300203656 ycba_term_43502 movement 300008733 ycba_term_32379 shore (landform) 300054734 300054734 ycba_term_8399 storms 300343616 300343616 ycba_term_2055203 waves (natural events) Martin Butlin, The paintings of J.M.W. Turner, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, New Haven, 1984, p. 284, 291, 293, no. 482, pl. 483, NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 995824523408651 582452 NJ18 T85 B885 1984 OVERSIZE (YCBA) 10948405 193 related to Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 228-229, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 995830003408651 583000 N590.2 .A83 (YCBA) 13422488 323 related to Genius Defined, Time, vol. 82, July 5, 1963, p.62, V 2333 (YCBA) Hard Copy also available at SML - AP2 T55 + 9998033003408651 9803300 V 2333 (YCBA) 1824 related to Luke Herrmann, The Paul Mellon Collection at Burlington House, Connoisseur, vol. 157, December 1964, p. 218, N1 C75 + Oversize (YCBA) 997628843408651 762884 N1 C75 + Oversize (YCBA) 960056578 893 related to J.M.W. 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