RedDot Podcast | An Interview with Franny Moyle, Author of Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner

RedDot Podcast | An Interview with Franny Moyle, Author of Turner: The Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of J.M.W. Turner

By Janice K. Johnson 2 years ago

An interview with Franny Moyle, Author of Turner: the Extraordinary Life and Momentous Times of JMW Turner. I picked up Franny’s biography on Turner earlier this year and thoroughly enjoyed learning more about this important artist’s life. Turner is one of the United Kingdom’s greatest artists, and is, perhaps, its best known, but I didn’t know much about his life. I found Franny’s biography fascinating and enlightening. Franny Moyle joins me for the interview from her home in England.

 

 

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Selected Images | Works by J.M.W. Turner

Drawing of St John’s Church, Margate by Turner from around 1786, when he would have been 11 or 12 years old. The ambitious but unsure drawing shows an early struggle with perspective, which can be contrasted with his later work By J. M. W. Turner – http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999998&workid=73303&searchid=9472, Public Domain, Link

 

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A View of the Archbishop’s Palace, Lambeth – this watercolour was Turner’s first to be accepted for the Royal Academy’s annual exhibition in April 1790, the month he turned 15. The image is a technical presentation of Turner’s strong grasp of the elements of perspective with several buildings at sharp angles to each other, demonstrating Turner’s thorough mastery of Thomas Malton’s topographical style.
By J. M. W. Turner – Indianapolis Museum of Art, Public Domain, Link

 

Fishermen at Sea exhibited in 1796 was the first oil painting exhibited by Turner at the Royal Academy.
By J. M. W. Turner – UwG73jK8wqshlw at Google Cultural Institute, zoom level maximum Tate Images (http://www.tate-images.com/results.asp?image=T01585&wwwflag=3&imagepos=2), Public Domain, Link

 

Bonneville, Savoy (1803) Dallas Museum of Art, oil on canvas 92 x 123 cm
By J. M. W. Turner – [1] 12 February 2014, Public Domain, Link
One of Turner’s most successful “house portraits”: Raby Castle, the Seat of the Earl of Darlington[27] The Walters Art Museum.
By J. M. W. Turner – Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork, Public Domain, Link
Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, 1842
By J. M. W. Turner – Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork, Public Domain, Link

 

The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1839
By J. M. W. Turner – National Gallery of Art, Public Domain, Link

 

The Wreck of a Transport Ship (c. 1810), oil on canvas
By J. M. W. Turner – Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Public Domain, Link

 

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