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January 28, 2009
Ian Warrell, ed. J. M. W. Turner Exh. cat. London: Tate Publishing, 2006. 272 pp.; 250 ills. Paper $35.00 (9781854375698)

Exhibition schedule: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 1, 2007–January 6, 2008; Dallas Museum of Art, February, 10–May 18, 2008; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June, 24–September 21, 2008

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2009.7

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Joseph Mallord William Turner. Norham Castle, Sunrise (ca. 1845). Oil on canvas. 90.8 x 121 in. (35 3/4 x 47 5/8 cm). Tate, London, Turner Bequest, 1856.

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The exhibition J. M. W. Turner, recently on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was the first large-scale exhibition of the artist’s work presented in the United States since the 1960s, and viewers paid the price, with a show that was too big and broad for most appetites. On my visits, the exhibition seemed to be challenging the stamina of all but the most devoted tourists and art historians. The problem was not only...