Artist's arttributes:
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Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 50 |
| United Kingdom | 41 |
| Switzerland | 8 |
| Japan | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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The National Gallery of Art, USA |
12 |
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Tate Britain, United Kingdom |
8 |
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Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland |
4 |
Biography: 
23.4.1775 Born in London, England (UK)
19.12.1851 Died in Chelsea, London, England (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 154 
until 2.6.
Solo shows 56
2013
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| Turner From The Tate: The Making Of A Master - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA |
2012
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| The Real and the Imagined: - Bunkamura, Tokyo |
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| J.M.W. Turner - National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (Wales) |
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| Reisen mit Wiliam Turner - Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Apolda |
2011
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| Turner and the Elements - National Museum in Cracow / Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie, Krakow |
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| Turner - Mar tormentoso con naufragio - Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao |
2010
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| Turner and the Masters - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris |
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| A Light in the Darkness Turner's Watercolours & Silhouettes and Miniatures - The Mary A. McNeill Bequest - National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
2009
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| Turner und Linz - Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
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| Turner and Italy - Museum of Fine Arts - Budapest, Budapest |
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| J.M.W Turner - National Art Museum of China - NAMOC, Beijing |
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| Turner & Italy - National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2008
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| J.M.W. Turner - McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON |
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| Turner e l´Italia - Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (FE) |
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| J. M. W. Turner - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| J. M. W. Turner - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
2007
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| J. M. W. Turner - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Turner in January: The Vaughan Bequest - Weston Link, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2006
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| Light into Colour - Turner in the South West - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
2005
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| The age of Turner - Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
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| Turner Watercolors - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
2004
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| Turner and Venice - Museo Correr, Venice |
2003
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| Turner - The Late Seascapes - Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester (England) |
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| Turner and Venice - Tate Britain, London (England) |
2002
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| Turner's Journeys of the Imagination - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England) |
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| William Turner - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Watercolors by J.M.W. Turner from the Taft Museum of Art - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
2001
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| William Turner - Licht und Farbe - Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen |
2000
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| JMW Turner - The Sun is God - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
1999
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| William Turner et les Alpes - Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny |
1997
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| J. M. Turner 1775-1851, A Tate Gallery Collection Exhibition - Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama |
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| Ut Poesis Pictura: J.M.W. Turner's Illustrations to the British Poets - USC Fisher Museum - University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA |
1996
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| Turner et le paysage romantique - Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City |
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| William Turner in Deutschland - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
1995
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| J. M. W. Turner and the Romantic Vision of the Holy Land and the Bible - McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA |
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| William Turner in Deutschland - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
1993
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| Turner’s Frontier - Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX |
1986
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| Turner - Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Tokyo |
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| J. M. W. Turner: The Foundations of Genius - Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Turner - NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
1984
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| J.M.W. Turner. Akvareller, målningar, grafik - Nationalmuseum, Stockholm |
1976
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| Turner und die Schweiz - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| J. M. W. Turner. 90 akvareller og tegninger fra British Museum, London - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen |
1975
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| J.M.W. Turner, 1775-1851 - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1972
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| Turner - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1968
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| J.M.W. Turner: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1966
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| Turner: Imagination and Reality - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1963
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| Exhibition of Etchings and Mezzotints from J.M.W. Turner's Liber Studiorum - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Watercolors by J.M.W. Turner from the British Museum - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1953
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| JMW Turner - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1951
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| An Exhibition of Paintings by J.M.W. Turner - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1948
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| Aquarelle nach Motiven aus der Schweiz aus Kunsthaus den Jahren 1802, 1841, 1843, 1844 von William Turner - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
1946
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| Liber Studiorum by J.M.W. Turner - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1941
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| Views of the British Isles by J.M.W. Turner - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1916
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| Engraved Work by J. M. W. Turner - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
1913
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| Mezzotint Engravings from the Liber Studiorum of J.M.W. Turner - Indianapolis Museum of Art - IMA, Indianapolis, IN |
Group shows 97
2013
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| Impressionism and Open-air Painting. From Corot to Van Gogh. - Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
2012
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| Constable, Gainsborough, Turner and the Making of Landscape - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
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| Mantegna to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Courtauld Gallery - The Frick Collection, New York City, NY |
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| Turner Monet Twombly - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Visions romantiques des côtes de la Manche du Mont St Michel au Pas-de-Calais - Musee des Beaux-Arts de Calais, Calais |
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| Turner Inspired: In the Light of Claude - The National Gallery, London (England) |
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| Italy on Paper - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Super 8 - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2011
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| Drawings by British and European Artists 1600-1900 - Agnew's Gallery, London (England) |
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| British Watercolours 1760–1900 - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Turner, Monet, Twombly - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Nothing in the World But Youth - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent |
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| Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Revealed: Turner Contemporary Opens - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent |
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| Life, Legend, Landscape - Courtauld Institute of Art, London (England) |
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| Watercolour - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Romantic Nature: British and French Landscapes - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - The Clark, Williamstown, MA |
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| Von Goya bis Picasso - Internationale Graphik aus der Schenkung Kastner - Schlossmuseum Linz, Linz |
2010
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| No New Thing Under the Sun - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
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| Turner to Monet: Masterpieces from The Walters Art Museum - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| The Land Between Us: power, place and dislocation - Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester (England) |
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| Romantics - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Volcano: Turner to Warhol - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| Tradition and Beyond - Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery , Sheffield |
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| Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2009
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| Stillness into Color : Inframince of Moonlight - Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba |
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| Turner to Cézanne - Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales - Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY |
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| The Artist's Studio - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| Turner and the Masters - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Work on Paper - Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (England) |
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| Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Turner to Cezanne - Masterpieces from the Davies Collection, National Museum Wales - Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC |
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| Long Island collects - Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY |
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| Twelve Travels - British Art in Sensibility and Experience - Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
2008
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| Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Dawn of a Colony: St Ives 1811–1888 - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| Paper Trail II: Passing Through Clouds - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Medieval to Modern - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Turner to Monet - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Great British Art: 200 Years of Watercolors, Drawings, and Prints from The Bank of New York Mellon Collection - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
2007
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| Omaggio a Capodimonte - Museo di Capodimonte, Naples |
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| Great British Watercolours from the Paul Mellon Collection at the Yale Center for British Art - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| An American's Passion for British Art: Paul Mellon's Legacy - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England) |
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| Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now - Barbican Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| La Abstraction del Paisaje - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
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| British Picturesque Landscapes - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Great British Watercolors - Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA |
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| Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner: The Manton Collection - Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - The Clark, Williamstown, MA |
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| BP Summer Exhibition - Hockney on Turner Watercolours - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| British Watercolours 1640 - 1860 - Nordiska Akvarellmuseet - The Nordic Watercolour Museum, Skarhamn |
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| Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Opulence & Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy of Arts - Compton Verney, Compton Verney, Warwickshire (England) |
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| Crosscurrents: American and European Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Artists Choice - Gallery Oldham, Oldham, Greater Manchester |
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| Masterpieces - European Art from the Collection - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2006
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| The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Masterpieces Of European Painting From The Cleveland Museum Of Art - The Frick Collection, New York City, NY |
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| In den Alpen - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Bilder vom Vierwaldstättersee - von William Turner bis Kurt Felix - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
2005
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| To Observe & Imagine - Frick Art & Historical Center, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Origins of the Twentieth Century: Watercolors and Drawings in France, 1875-1915 - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| A Picture of Britain - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Landskap - Malmö konstmuseum, Malmö |
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| Foundations: Old Master and Nineteenth-Century Prints from the Collection - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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| Dromen van Dordrecht - Dordrechts Museum, Dordrecht |
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| Turner Whistler Monet - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Works on Paper - From Turner to Freud - Lefevre Fine Art Limited, London (England) |
2004
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| Watercolours and Drawings - 18th-20th centuries - Lowell Libson Ltd, London (England) |
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| Clouded Over: Representations of Clouds in Art - The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Crawley WA |
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| Turner-Whistler-Monet - Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris |
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| In the Haze: watercolours by Turner and Williamson - Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight |
2003
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| Montagna arte scienza mito. Da Dürer a Warhol - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| In the Eye of the Beholder - NIU Art Museum - Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL |
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| Happiness - A Survival Guide for Art and Life - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| The Allure of Light - Turner to Cézanne - European Masterpieces from the Nationa - Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, Christchurch |
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| Arte dos Artistas - Fundação Caixa Geral de Depósitos - Culturgest, Lisbon |
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| Shakespeare nell´arte - Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara (FE) |
2002
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| Freude am Dialog - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
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| Die zweite Schöpfung - Bilder der industriellen welt vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
2001
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| British Art - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
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| Panorama Rotterdam - Meesters aan de Maas 1820-1940 - Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
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| Sisters Select. Paintings & Drawings from the Davies Collection - The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset (England) |
2000
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| Farbe > Licht - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Cosmos - From Goya to De Chirico from Friedrich to Kiefer - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
1999
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| Watercolours from the Permanent Collection - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England) |
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| L’âge d’or de l’aquarelle anglaise. Turner, Constable, Bonington... 1770-1900 - Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne |
1997
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| Sublime Inspiration - Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England) |
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| The Victorians: British Painting in the Reign of Queen Victoria, 1837-1901 - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1996
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| Comme un oiseau - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1993
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| Azur - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1991
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| Painters of Hastings - Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings, East Sussex (England) |
1971
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| William Hogarth: A Selection of Paintings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1956
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| Masters of British Painting 1800-1950 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1947
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| Prints by Hogarth, Constable, and Turner - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1946
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| Masterpieces of English Painting: Hogarth, Constable and Turner - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Dealer Directory 2 |
United Kingdom
| | Hildegard Fritz-Denneville Fine Arts Ltd, London (England)
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| | The Gallery Manchester & Anglesey Art House, Rhosneigr, Anglesey (Wales)
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Collections 47

Australia
| | Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
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| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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| | NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC
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Croatia
France
Ireland (Republic)
| | National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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| | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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Japan
| | Koriyama City Museum of Art, Koriyama
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| | Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
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| | Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi
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| | NMWA The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
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Liechtenstein
| | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
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Luxembourg
| | MNHA Musée national d'histoire et d'art Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Malta
| | The Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
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New Zealand
| | Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland
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| | Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin
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South Africa
| | South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town
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Spain
| | Museo de Bellas Artes de A Coruña, A Coruña
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Switzerland
| | Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
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| | Museo Cantonale d´Arte Lugano, Lugano
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United Kingdom
| | The Holburne Museum, Bath, Somerset (England)
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| | The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Somerset (England)
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| | Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
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| | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England)
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| | Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Cumbria (England)
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| | Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds (England)
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| | Sudley House, Liverpool (England)
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| | Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England)
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| | The National Gallery, London (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
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| | Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight
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| | Museums Sheffield: Millennium Gallery , Sheffield
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| | Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton (England)
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| | The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, West Midlands (England)
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USA
| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
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| | Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
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| | Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH
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| | The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
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| | Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL
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| | Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
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| | The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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| | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute - The Clark, Williamstown, MA
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