There are more than a hundred pieces here, and they’re all worth careful attention. The show then went to the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas before coming to Boston (where it will remain on view until July 10). This is the exhibition’s last stop on a three-city tour, which began at the Tate Britain in London (home to the majority of the pictures here, the museum to which Turner bequeathed his store of unsold work, including oil paintings, watercolors, drawings and sketchbooks). Joseph Mallord William Turner, "Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen," about 1805–1806. This fascinating and powerful show makes a strong case for that opinion.
Welcome to the world of Joseph Mallord William Turner, whom the MFA’s Frederick Ilchman - the show’s chief Boston curator and my generous guide - argues is England’s greatest painter. The sky is lowering, but in the distance a rainbow is forming. In this vast landscape painting of a scene in the Swiss Alps, a waterfall rushing - gushing - between a cliff and a massive rock pile seems to be aiming not only at the small caravan of figures camped out in front of it but directly at you. Turner show, you’re gobsmacked by the first painting you face: the MFA’s own “Fall of the Rhine at Schaffhausen.” It’s nearly 5 feet tall by nearly 8 feet wide. (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)Īs you walk into the first gallery of the Museum of Fine Art’s big J.M.W. A view of "Turner’s Modern World" exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, running through July 10, 2022.
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