JMW Turner Top 10

[Tubby Isaacs]

It's quite hard to think in Top 10 terms for artists, so start with just a suggestion. Slavers Throwing Overboard The Dead And Dying typhoon Coming On, from Boston Museum of Fine Arts. It's the Turner I'd most like to see in person:

[Ginger Yellow]

JMW Turner Top 10

I got to see it last year. It's pretty amazing.

Anyway, this isn't the best image of it, but you've got to love Rain, Steam and Speed:



Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus:



The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons:

[Ek weet nie]

JMW Turner Top 10

[edit]To Tubby:

Is there a sketch for that in the Tate Britain? It looks very familiar or am I confusing it with the shipwreck with the floating oranges?

[Amor de Cosmos]

JMW Turner Top 10

The Interior at Petworth.

[Tubby Isaacs]

JMW Turner Top 10

Nil, possibly, I don't know. I've never seen it on display.

A less "poetic" picture, after Amor's wonder. Frosty Morning:

[matt j]

JMW Turner Top 10



as I've mentioned before.

[nefertiti]

JMW Turner Top 10



Norham Castle

[RobW]

JMW Turner Top 10



The Fighting Temeraire

[mafu]

JMW Turner Top 10

Tubby's first suggestion will do for me. looks amazing

[RobW]

JMW Turner Top 10

Having been to the Turner/Masters exhibition at Tate Britain, i'll have to say this is my new favourite Turner painting.

"Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth"

[Tubby Isaacs]

JMW Turner Top 10

I was there again today. It's still good.