William Cheever Turner is a realist, fine art, oil painter with a studio in Milford, New Hampshire.
I am now in a position to offer prints of paintings which would never be available as originals. These paintings are either not for sale or are trapped in one of my sketchbooks. And I’m already plundering them. My journey with Giclee printing continues, but so far I’m extremely chuffe...
In 1802, Turner made a trip to the Continent, where he painted his famousCalais Pier(National Gall., London). From then on he traveled constantly in England or abroad, making innumerable direct sketches from which he drew material for his studio paintings in oil and watercolor. Turner showed ...
My aim is to create paintings that are visually engaging and have a quality of beauty which draws the viewer in and gives him/her a feeling of connectedness.
In a final act of self-promotion, he asked in his bequest that two of his paintings hang in the National Gallery alongside the work of Claude Lorrain –and you can see these stunning paintings in this exhibition.Turner also had a great rivalry with John Constable. At the Royal Academy ...
But Turner would never have regarded himself as an abstract painter. He liked subject matter and long-winded titles for his paintings. The current exhibition sets aside a small room at the end for less than a dozen of the unfinished paintings, giving us a more realistic understanding of their...
He cut out paper figures and pasted them on his paintings. The intricate, rather "mappy" style of his early maturity gave way - under Italian light or English weather - to something altogether freer and in tune with the elements. Even in his studio, making pictures from the shorthand of ...
account the Great Depression and the Wall Street crash of 1929of which the collapse of all European economies, appalling unemployment andpolitical extremism were for years the consequencesthe Mellons remained rich, and both before and after the Second World War therewas money to spare for paintings...