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Past Exhibition

JMW Turner oil painting of port of Cologne with ship arriving
Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time
February 23, 2017 to May 14, 2017

Joseph Mallord William Turner, Britain’s greatest land- and seascape painter of the nineteenth century, explored the theme of the port throughout his career. This exhibition centered around the Frick’s Harbor of Dieppe and Cologne, uniting them with a closely related yet unfinished work from Tate, London, that depicts the harbor of Brest, in Brittany. The trio was accompanied by more than thirty of Turner’s oil paintings, watercolors, sketchbooks, and prints.